Downtown Reno is bleak. It calls itself the “Biggest diminutive City in the World,” a name left over from a different legal and moral era, when the economy rode high on gambling and out-of-state travelers seeking divorce. That fortune has long since ebbed, and on Virginia Street,Reno’s main drag, the casinos support company with pawnshops and liquor stores. The pawnshops generally seem to be doing better than the casinos.
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Source: gawker.com