7/5/2023 0 Comments The road to nowhere liason![]() ![]() So, it was a shock for me to read his obituary on Tuesday. I instantly liked him, having no idea that his family and mine would soon be linked. I met him for the first time at a Carson Valley Health Center Liason Board meeting when I arrived in Gardnerville in 1989. ![]() Hap Haight was the grandson of a California governor and one of the people who made a difference in the Carson Valley. "There are more brothels and bordellos per person in Storey County than any place in the world," the show's announcer said. ![]() The main event was the chat with Conforte, who had about 10 minutes of screen time interspersed among interviews with the other former and present brothel operators.Ĭonforte came off far better in the program than Virginia City.Ĭalled a collection of "nothing more than half-baked tourist traps," the queen of the Comstock was described as the center of legalized prostitution in Nevada. It was up to Bucket of Blood owner Don McBride to set the record straight about the relative location of the Mustang Ranch. With items like "The road from Reno to Washoe (rhymes with blue) were lined with brothels," or "Just outside Virginia City are several brothels," program producers, no doubt, were more interested in fun than fact. Never mind that only one brothel remains in Storey County after the Mustang Ranch was closed last year (and is closer to Sparks than to Virginia City). "As long as people are willing to pay for sex, Virginia City will be willing to offer it," the host intoned dramatically. Interviews with Joe Conforte, Jessi Winchester, Dennis Hof and Shirley Colletti were nowhere nearly as colorful as the program's script. Not since "Bonanza" has a television program been so geographically challenged as Arts & Entertainment Television's expose on prostitution and Virginia City. ![]()
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