Western Auto Supply Then and Now

Last week we looked at the Arlington Hotel in downtown Carson City. This week we are looking at its next door neighbor. Western Auto Supply was located in the old Gray Reid Wright Building, adjoining the Arlington Hotel. A sliver of the hotel can be seen to the right.

Gray Reid Wright was a department store chain that had started in Reno in 1901. By the time of this photo, Gray Reid Wright had moved to the Carson Mall and Western Auto Supply moved in.

Both of these buildings were on the west side of Carson Street, between Spear and Robinson. They were both demolished in the 1960s. Now this land is the Nugget’s West parking lot.

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