Maybe I've missed it, but I don't know the significance of naming the Northern Club in downtown Las Vegas as "northern"?

We know it was the first license in 1931, and that it was located at 15 (East) Fremont Street, about where Golden Gate is now. Although Fremont St. runs mostly East & West, it is on a bit of diagonal, so the Northern Club was the northern-most casino in the downtown area, as the Sal Sagev (or it's predecessor name?) was not a casino, and across the street (where Circa is now) was not a casino either, and the (Union) Plaza did not exist either.

But my sense is, "Northern" doesn't simply mean a direction, like the North Shore and South Shore casinos at Lake Tahoe refer to the north & south ends of the lake.

At the time, Reno was the main gambling destination in Nevada, and Las Vegas certainly isn't in the northern part of the state - but just the opposite! (There was a Northern Club in Reno as well, and I don't know it's name history either ... but that one may be simply geographic?)

Another possible name derivation? -- Nevada is the "Battle Born" state, admitted to the Union (the North) during the Civil War, for its riches in Silver. Is Northern Club giving a nod to the state's Northern association in that sense? Or something else entirely? I'm just speculating here. But if you know the "why" of naming it the Northern Club, let us know.

(An opposite bit of trivia: UNLV was originally called Univ of Nevada Southern (or Southern Branch) in contrast to the older / original Univ of Nevada founded in Reno. The "Southern" part is how UNLV adopted "Rebels" (or Running Rebels, for basketball) as their team name. But you probably knew that already.)