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4 Part Vll-Sun Feb. 3. 1974 the future site of Bonnie Springs. "It was snowing when I got here," he recalls. "People told me it was the first Please Turn lo Tg.

5, Col. 1 ROAMED WITH RILEY company in Las Vegas and will be connected to a proper antique switchboard. This will be the only form of communication in town, Except, of course, for the Morse "ticker" telegraph. Levinson has been working toward Old Nevada ever since he first came to Las Vegas from New York in 1949 and saw A NEW LOOK AT Oil) MEXICO! mwmii Bonnie Springs Goes Back Further Than the Old West Your Catered "Yellow Ginger" tour of Me a first class PrinccssTour. Sightseeing included: Waikiki half day tour Maui Iao Needle Drive Kauai Wailua River Fern Grotto Traditional lei greeting i All transfers and porterage No hidden charges.

Other tours available, 0EPART THUR RETURN SAT and have the money to do something about it are trying to get a piece of the action by acquiring concessions in the restored buildings. Now Al Levinson has a chance to say no. "We don't want people in business suits coming out here to skim the cash register," Al says, using a word that's still considered indelicate in some Las Vegas circles. "People who get a lease at Bonnie Springs will have to live here and be part of the scene." fed Other programs: Waikiki -10 days $299. 2 Islands 10 days $339.

4 Islands 15 days $499. 4 Islands Deluxe 15 days $599. I WORLD TRAVEL. INC 530 W. Sixth Street Los Angeles, Ca.

90014 CALL NOW (213) 680-9630 totally restored inside and out. Next will come 224 campsites and 200 rooms for overnight accommodations, weekending or vacations. The rooms are to be built in the configuration of a wagon wheel, each spoke representing a different segment of history. This won't be a ghost town, and there will be no facade buildings. The dance hall is for dancing.

You pour your own drinks. "The town will live," says Al. Levinson, who is bringing it to life with $800,000 of his own money. "Things will happen here like they happened -in a Nevada town a century ago." For more than a decade, Bonnie Springs and Old Nevada were just a dream to Levinson and his wife, who happens to be named Bonnie. Levinson talked about Old Nevada so much and for so long that even today most people in Las Vegas don't know, or don't believe, it's actually being put together.

Those who do believe it BY FRANK RILEY BONNIE SPRINGS, Nev. You get here by bus and a miniature steam locomotive that once served the Comstock Lode. Las Vegas is a half hour and a hundred years away. You walk through recreated history of the Nevada that was, then hike up into mountains rich with the mementos of a people who lived here years before the Old "West was born. "We had a preview of Bonnie Springs' Old Nevada the other day, after the first real snowfall in 25 years.

Cover of Snow The stack of the Comstock locomotive looked like an ice cream cone. The reconstructed emporium, assay office and postal telegraph were mounded with powered snow. Ducks swam in ponds of frosted silver. By the middle of March, barring another heavenly avalanche, the old locomotive will be chugging carloads of passengers into Old Nevada, a town of more than 45 buildings, all iu 1 GOLDEN CALIFORNIA SPRING IN DIXIE FLORIDA CIRCLE A fascinatine land tour. a fabulous sea cruise.

Those are the ingredients for Living the Fart They'll have to dress the part and even step out in front of their places of business to pump water when it's needed, he says. The Chinese launrdy will have to be run by a gentleman of Chinese descent. The funeral parlor and Us adjacent boot hill will be painfully authentic, but in this case Levinson appears ready to make some compromises. Not so with communications. He has bought up a supply of antique telephones.

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