Do you mean Harrah’s?

 

No, Harold's Club otherwise known as Lazy Five in it's later years

 

So it's in Reno instead of LostWages ?

 

Inductees

The Trapshooting Hall of Fame was founded in 1968 and held its first induction banquet in 1969. Its purpose is to preserve the history and artifacts of trapshooting and to honor outstanding persons in the sport.

traphof.org

A story of Harold Smith Sr.

An intriguing story about Harold Smith Sr. and his father Pappy Smith who founded Harold's Club Casino in the downtown Reno.

lcb.org

Lazy 5 Regional Park

www.washoecounty.gov

Plenty of info about the casino and the Smiths on the inter web. Not so much about the trap club.

 

Reach out to Carmicheal (Las Vegas Gun Club). He was there a lot.

 

I have a few items of Harold`s memorabilia in my collection. I know Dan Orlich managed the gun club for Harold Smith Jr. The Gun Club was known for Live bird tournaments in the 50`s, 60`s and 70`s... Photo from collection, Fred Etchen won live bird shoot 98/100
Harold`s Gun Club...

Sportalluring

 

Actually Dan was his casino manager and traveled to promote the gun club. It was Don Ohnstead who was the gun club manager. He was also an accomplished trapshooter himself.

 

Wow, $3,000.00 added money in 1958 would be equivalent to $31,580.28 today. It has been so long, I have forgotten about Harold’s, only Harrah’s came to mind.

 

1958 Flyer program and list of Winners of Golden West Grand American Handicap...

Sportalluring

 

Here is a photo from 1960`s... One of the two live bird fields at Harolds...

Sportalluring

 

Thank you. We were hoping for a picture of the club house. I was trying to explain the layout and the grounds to him. We did go across the ditch where the lower fields were and found some whole targets!

 

I get out to the county gun range north of there every so often. A few years back, I got into a conversation with the range manager. He lived close by Harold’s Trapshooting Club as a kid and hung out there. The morning the clubhouse was to be torn down he noticed all the pictures were still on the walls inside. As the machines warmed up, the demolition crew allowed him to go inside and save the photos and pictures. He said he still has them.

I mentioned that the Nevada Hall of Fame would love to have them and volunteered to scan them so the HOF could access that history, but he was not interested. I think Mr. Bullard asked him as well and got the same reply.

 

Lazy 5 Regional Park

www.washoecounty.gov

 

Shot my first trap targets there in the late 60’s, and had my first lessons there. What memories.

 

Great photo of Fred Etchen in post #7. What trap gun is that? Must have been expensive and super tuned.

 

Looks like an 870.

 

I believe in the early fifties Phil Miller from Kansas City ran the club... Also remember reading, (T&F or Shotgun Sports) Al Ljutic started his business in one of the buildings on the grounds...

 

My take is that the trap function was supported by the casino. Once Smith sold the casino to Howard Hughes who then sold to another, financial support for the gun club activities by a return on investment oriented board of directors dried up?

 

Hi All : Once upon a time Susan Nattrass had a very interesting leather bag, I thought It might of come from this Reno shoot. Some one took it at a Grand American. It was a very noticeable bag , I wonder were it went. Not sure she won it with the 99 at the Golden West. Hopeful some one knows more than I do. I always felt badly that her bag was stolen. It would stand out no matter what event you attended.

Joe Woods/Ontario

 

Looking at that list of handicap winners, I don't see that any of them were repeat winners!

 

The shooting bag could have been awarded for “High Lady.” By winning the handicap outright, she probably won a very nice sterling silver belt buckle with a large gold coin in the center.
Harold Smith got the idea of the trophy belt buckle from the rodeos.

When I first attended the GWG in 1998 at Sage Hill and saw those buckles in the trophy case, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I never imagined anything like that existed.