National Automobile Museum named in the 'Top Ten Museums' by "Car Collector" magazine, one of "America's Five Greatest Automobile Museums" and one of the top sixteen auto museums in the world by "AutoWeek", and has been repeatedly selected as the best museum in Northern Nevada by "Nevada Magazine"'s annual reader's poll. National Automobile Museum The National Automobile Museum, located just south of the Truckee River in Reno, Nevada, displays historic automobiles from the late 19th century and from throughout the 20th. Most of the vehicles displayed are from the collection of the late casino owner William F. Harrah, and so the museum is
William F. Harrah a circle around the board matched a four-card sequence, he or she won, unless they were a shill, working for the house. The use of shills to fill the games upset players, but John Harrah felt they were necessary. The Reno Game was shut down several times by local authorities, but each time, lawyer John Harrah would get his permit reinstated. Still, the cost of doing business was high. When twenty-year-old Bill told his father he should get rid of the shills and put more money into the business, John challenged him to run the operation by himself. Bill said,