Lake Tahoe, the silver mines, dude ranches, Reno -- the divorce capital of the US -- and lots of red neon lights. There's not a word of Las Vegas and the dreams of wealth that draw millioons of people thence, but I would imagine that indicates that the boom of Vegas as one of the gambling centers of the world still lay in the future. It would not be until the 1950s that Vegas surpassed 'The Biggest Little City in the World" in peoples' minds as what Nevada was about. It was all backwards looking, according to this episode in Fitzpatrick's Traveltalks series: the shrinking lakes, the ghosting town of Virginia City, the dying marriages at the Washoe County courthouse..... although the commentary insists there are more marriages than divorces going on there. Well, maybe.
As is usual with these travelogues, the pictures are quite lovely, with many splashes of bright red in the clothing we get a chance to look at, although Fitzpatrick's never-ending, trivia is shouted at the audience, as if they were more interested in the dull recitation of facts. This was produced during the War, so trips outside North America were in short supply for the Technicolor cameras. One state over, mostly near the California border was a memorable journey, especially for the Americans stuck on the East Coast, and even for people in California, with gasoline rationed during the War. Travel wasn't easy, trains were crowded, and after the years of the Depression, hotel rooms were in short supply.
Fitzpatrick doesn't mention these facts, of course. Travelogues might make you want to see these sights for yourself, but for the moment, getting there was a problem. Still, one day, the chance would come to take the journey and people would come to Nevada, but to gamble. You could do that in Reno, of course. You could do anything in Reno, if you were willing to spend the money. At least, so I am told.