{{short description|Hotel and casino in Carson City, Nevada}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox casino |name=Carson Nugget |logo=Carson Nugget Logo.png |image=Carson Nugget 3.jpg |caption=Carson Nugget in 2009 |location=Carson City, Nevada, U.S. |address=507 North Carson Street (casino)<br>800 North Carson Street (hotel) |date_opened={{Start date and age|1954|3|1}} |theme= |rooms=83 |space_gaming={{convert|28930|sqft|abbr=on}} |shows= |attractions= |coordinates={{Coord|39|10|00.6|N|119|45|59.3|W|region:US-NV_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} |notable_restaurants=Alatte Coffee & Wine<br>The All American Eatery<br>Angelina's Steakhouse |owner=Dean DiLullo |architect= |names_pre= |renovations= |website={{URL|ccnugget.com}} }}
'''Carson Nugget''' is a hotel and casino located in Carson City, Nevada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gaming.nv.gov/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=3428|title=Listing of Financial Statements Square Footage|date=|publisher=Nevada Gaming Control Board|accessdate=March 16, 2015}}</ref><ref name =" Moreno 2011">{{cite book | last = Moreno | first = Richard | title = A Short History of Carson City | publisher = University of Nevada Press| date = March 2011 | location = Reno, Nevada | pages = 118| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=n4LFvHSs4pUC&pg=PA118| isbn = 978-0-87417-836-4}} "In 1954, the small Carson Nugget casino opened adjacent to the historic Federal Building."</ref> The Carson Nugget is nearly 30,000 square feet.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://ccnugget.com/about-us/ |website=Carson Nugget |publisher=Carson Nugget |accessdate=8 September 2020}}</ref> The property features slots, table games, keno, three restaurants, meeting spaces and 83 hotel rooms.
==History== Richard Graves opened the casino, known then as the Carson City Nugget, on March 1, 1954.<ref name = "Nevada State Journal Mar 24 1955">{{cite news | title = Sparks Acquires Newest Business: Restaurant, Casino Opens | newspaper = Nevada State Journal | location = Reno, Nevada | page = 8 | date = March 24, 1955 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/79169139/ |accessdate=September 21, 2020}}</ref> The Carson City Nugget was one of Nevada's largest and most prosperous casinos when Graves sold it to Richard E. Pogue and Chester H. Armstrong in September 1956.<ref name = "Nevada State Journal Sep 7 1956">{{cite news | title = Dick Graves Sells Carson City Nugget | newspaper = Nevada State Journal | location = Reno, Nevada | page = 7 | date = September 7, 1956}} Summary: The Carson City Nugget was sold to Richard E. Pogue and Chester H. Armstrong, both from Minnesota. Graves opened the Carson City Nugget on March 1, 1954, after coming to Nevada from Idaho. Graves still owns the Nugget casino in Sparks Nevada.</ref> After Pogue died, the Carson City Nugget was sold to a group of six purchasers for $525,000 in December 1958. The group included three Adams brothers who would manage the casino.<ref name = "Reno Evening Gazette December 17, 1958">{{cite news | title = Carson City Nugget Sale is Confirmed | newspaper = Reno Evening Gazette | location = Reno, Nevada | page = 32 | date = December 17, 1958}} Summary: The Nugget was sold for $525,000 to a group of 6 purchasers, all licensed in Nevada. Purchasers are L. A. Adams, W. H. Adams, A. C. Adams, Barney Sullivent, Lincoln Rosen and Jerome Zurkow. The Adams brother will manage the Nugget.</ref>
As of 2008, the Carson Nugget had become the oldest continually operating casino in Carson City.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Frank |first1=Dave |title=Nugget has long history in Carson City |url=https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/local/nugget-has-long-history-in-carson-city/ |website=Nevada Appeal |publisher=Nevada Appeal |accessdate=10 September 2020}}</ref> The casino was sold in 2015 to Dean DiLullo, the CEO of M1 Gaming in Reno.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.recordcourier.com/news/local/reno-firm-buying-carson-nugget/|title=Reno firm buying Carson Nugget|access-date=2018-04-03}}</ref> The casino and restaurants occupy nearly {{convert|30000|sqft|adj=on}} and an 83-room hotel, the Carson Tahoe Hotel, is located across North Carson Street.<ref name = "Nugget hotel site">{{cite web|title=Carson Tahoe Hotel|publisher=Carson Nugget Casino|url=http://ccnugget.com/hotel|accessdate=September 21, 2020}}</ref>
=== Awful Awful Burger === Graves opened multiple "Nugget" casinos, including the Little Nugget in Reno, and the Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks. At each of these locations, he introduced the "Awful Awful Burger", a double-patty sandwich that he had first created and sold in Idaho. The Awful Awful Burger, named so because it is considered "awful big and awful good", has come to be something of a local delicacy.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rgj.com/story/life/food/2017/09/22/awfully-hungry-grab-awful-awful-northern-nevada-icon/676498001/|title=Celebrate Northern Nevada's famous Awful Awful on National Hamburger Day|work=Reno Gazette Journal}}</ref> {{As of|2020|09}}, the Carson Nugget is the only remaining purveyor of the burger.<ref name=KTVN>{{cite news |title=No More Awful Awfuls, as Little Nugget in Downtown Reno Shuts Down for Good |url=https://www.ktvn.com/story/42434923/no-more-awful-awfuls-as-little-nugget-in-downtown-reno-shuts-down-for-good |work=KTVN}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wright |first1=Johnathan |title=Trying the Awful Awful burger — sober — in the last place to serve it. How was it? |url=https://www.rgj.com/story/life/food/2020/09/07/trying-awful-awful-burger-last-place-serve-carson-city-nugget-sober/5650732002/ |website=Reno Gazette Journal |publisher=Reno Gazette Journal |accessdate=9 September 2020}}</ref>
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