Testolin, Berto
Description
Owner of the Apache Bar
Excerpt from The Italians found at:
Wyoming bootlegger Berto Testolin made an even greater contribution to the demand for strong drink than did Champo. Testolin's nephew, Guido, recounted that when local law enforcement in Wyoming began taking Prohibition more seriously than the Italian-born Testolin thought appropriate, he moved his substantial bootlegging operation to the Las Vegas area, building a still about twenty-five miles northwest of the city in an area that is now a nature preserve, where water from underground springs was easily accessed. When passage of the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933 brought an end to Prohibition, Testolin bought the Cinnabar and Mission bars, in the present location of the Golden Nugget Hotel.
