Tuesday, June 29, 2021

John Ascuaga, a Northern Nevada gambling icon, dies at age 96

John Ascuaga, the son of Basque sheepherders who became a northern Nevada gambling icon after he bought a small coffee shop with a few slot machines in Sparks in 1960 and turned it into a major hotel-casino he operated for more than a half century, has died. He was 96.



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