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What is Nevada Day?

Nevada Day is a state holiday that celebrates the Silver State's birthday, also known as Admissions Day. It commemorates Oct. 31, 1864, when Nevada was admitted into the Union as the 36th state.

It takes place on Oct. 31, which is also, of course, Halloween.

Except when Oct. 31 falls on a Sunday and the parade is held on the Saturday before, Nevada Day always occurs on Oct. 31 itself, Halloween notwithstanding. However, the official state holiday is held on the Friday before the 31st and public schools, state offices, and most banks are closed, though the post office and other federal offices aren’t.

In three northern Nevada counties (Douglas, Lyon, and Storey) and the capital district (Carson City), Halloween was actually moved to October 30 so as not to interfere with Nevada Day. But that ended in the year 2000; too confusing.

Carson City, the state capital, pulls out all the stops for Nevada Day; the celebration culminates in a huge parade.

For more than you ever wanted to know about Nevada Day, visit nevadaday.com.

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Kevin Lewis Sep-03-2023

Actually...

Resort fees? Paid parking? 6:5 blackjack? An entire city being converted into a racetrack so some rich assholes can be amused for a weekend?

Every day is Nevada Day!!! (and that ain't good)

O2bnVegas Sep-03-2023

sounds like (to me anyway)

Sour grapes. 'com Kevin, you are better than that.

Candy

tgabrielli Sep-03-2023

Re: Keven Lewis's comment

Totally agree with Kevin's comment about the "racetrack." This F1 race is by far the most idiotic concept yet!

Reno Faoro Sep-03-2023

nevada day

i am very happy . indigenous  day has NOT replaced   NEVADA DAY !!!!!!!!  columbus  day has been removed in many states .

gaattc2001 Sep-03-2023

Here's a bit of Nevada statehood trivia:

Several hard copies of the Nevada state constitution sent overland and by sea to Washington had failed to arrive.
On 26 October 1864 the entire text of the document was sent by telegraph, in the form of a telegram from territorial governor James W. Nye to president Abraham Lincoln [1]. There was no direct link, so it had to be re-transmitted through Salt Lake City, Chicago, and Philadelphia. The final word count was 16,543 and it cost $4313.27 in 1864 dollars, which were still made of--or at least backed by--silver. And several telegraphists probably suffered carpal tunnel syndrome.

And I might agree with Kevin and others here on resort fees, 6-5 BJ, the F1 race, etc.; but these things are peripheral to the main QOD topic today. OTOH I'm hardly one to complain about digressions: I've digressed here myself more than once. 

Happy Nevada Day to all.

1. https://library.louisville.edu/ekstrom/gov_states/nevada#:~:text=Nevada%20Statehood,of%20the%20Nevada%20State%20Constitution.

Bob Sep-03-2023

Halloween

Always heard that Halloween in Vegas was a State Holiday, Assumed it was satire about the high percentage of Freaks wandering about...now I know "The rest of the Story"   
and Kevin, Las Vegas was built by rich Assholes needing to be amused!

Robert Dietz Sep-03-2023

Broke on Nevada Day

So, a year I did NOT spend the football season in LV, I flew into LV to meet some friends who were sports gamblers. I am not adverse to taping 30K to my body a la Miami Vice, but this trip I decide, since I have an account with Wells Fargo, to not carry a boatload of cash on me. I take a couple hundred bucks and need about 10k to gamble properly for the football weekend. I fly in Thursday night, figuring I'll hit the bank in the morning.

Well, I go to the bank, and it's closed. I am comically befuddled. I am told it is Nevada Day. Like, "What the goddamn is THAT?"

Thus, I am hosting a bunch of high rolling sports gamblers, and I HAVE NO CASH. My excuse, "Ummm, I didn't know it was Nevada Day," sounded pretty lame.

Thenceforward, I checked my calendar for the damnable Nevada Day.

CLIFFORD Sep-03-2023

HALLOWEEN ON 30TH

But back to 31st....it was too confusing.  Man ya learned interesting stuff everyday.. A comment on post cards...they are plentiful all over the world...problem - when you send them, you get home before the post cards arrive...thanks USPS.

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