The lobby displays artifacts such as a 1907 hotel registration book a replica of the city's first phone, which was installed at the hotel old gaming-debt ledgers and bottles of alcohol hidden in the walls during Prohibition that were found during renovation. So it gives you a perspective of what it was like.' 'Ceiling heights were a little bit lower, showerheads were a little bit lower - people were a little bit smaller. 'For a lot of people, it's pretty cool to come in to see what a hotel room was like back 115 years ago,' Stevens said. Room and board was $1, and gambling was illegal at the time. The Golden Gate as it looked in 1906, when it was the Hotel Nevada. Its electric lighting, ventilation and steam-heat radiators made the hotel 'first-class,' according to a newspaper report at the time. opened as the Hotel Nevada in 1906, well before gambling was legal. 'It's a place where time stands still, and you get to a point where you begin really respecting the history.' 'The unique thing about Golden Gate was, over the years, it evolved very slowly,' said Derek Stevens, who bought 50% of hotel-casino in 2006. The rudimentary surveillance system installed in the 1950s, long supplanted by 'eye in the sky' camera technology, is just one of the many reminders of the downtown Las Vegas hotel-casino's long history. They'd lie on their stomach on a railroad cart that rolled along a track in an overhead space no more than 36 inches high above the two-way mirrors. In the ceiling above the gaming pit at the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino are 20 shiny, dark glass panels through which casino employees looked for cheaters.

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