Yes indeed Don, there was a different Blue Bird Club, a bar w/o gaming. Listed in Fuller's in the later incarnation as the bar-only joint was 132 E. second and the "New" was 10 W. Commercial Row. Kling tells us quite a bit about it. '41 saw Peter Monticelli open the Blue Bird on Second and opening the "New" on Commercial Row in '45 with a gaming license although gaming was "irregular" in the late '40's. Lots of other things were irregular at the joint as well. Closed by the health dept. in '49 and then Monticelli's check to to Washoe County for his gaming license bounced a few days later. No sense of humor on that from gaming so Mr. Monticelli took his meals at the GrayBar Club for awhile. John Q. Firebug apparently was left to oversee the shuttered club and dang, if'n there weren't a blaze at the place that ended the Blue Bird happiness for good in '49. Reopened under new management in '51 as the Haymarket Club. If you were standing at ground zero for BB/Haymarket today, the desk clerk at Fitzgeralds would be happy to let you a pretty nice room...if you weren't fussy about hot water and all.

From the cover: "Our Glasses Sterilized By Sterilamps"