Meanwhile, Last Chance Joe has greeted casino gamers to Sparks for 56 years. The Old West miner is now preparing to retire from the John Ascuaga's Nugget's façade at Victorian Square next month.

Michonne Ascuaga served as Chief Executive Officer of John Ascuaga's Nugget Hotel and Casino, Sparks, Nevada, for many years. She is a graduate of Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, ...

Ascuaga was known for roaming the floor and greeting patrons personally at the casino he named John Ascuaga’s Nugget along Interstate 80 in Sparks, just east of Reno, until it was sold in 2013.

He was 96. Ascuaga was known for roaming the casino floor and greeting patrons personally at the Nugget that bore his name along U.S. Interstate 80 just east of Reno until it first was sold in 2013.

Graves owned small Nugget casinos in Reno, Carson City and Yerington before opening one in Sparks in 1955 and hiring Ascuaga as a manager. Ascuaga bought it in 1960 and soon began a variety of ...

Ascuaga was a bellman at an Idaho lodge when he met casino pioneer Dick Graves. who owned small Nugget casinos in Reno, Carson City and Yerington. In 1955, he opened another Nugget in Sparks and ...

He was 96. Ascuaga was known for roaming the casino floor and greeting patrons personally at the Nugget that bore his name along U.S. Interstate 80 just east of Reno until it first was sold in 2013.

He was 96. Ascuaga was known for roaming the casino floor and greeting patrons personally at the Nugget that bore his name along U.S. Interstate 80 just east of Reno until it first was sold in 2013.

It was in the Nugget Steakhouse where Ascuaga met his future wife Rose Ardans. The two went on to build John Ascuaga's Nugget into a major resort destination in the Reno-Sparks area. She passed ...

John Ascuaga, the man who built John Ascuaga’s Nugget into one of the premiere hotel-casinos in Reno-Sparks, has died. He was 96 years old.

John Ascuaga, the man who built John Ascuaga’s Nugget into one of the premiere hotel-casinos in Reno-Sparks, has died. He was 96 years old.