Reno Gazette Journal LAS VEGAS – To stay at the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino is to travel back in time, reports the Reno Gazette Journal, a USA TODAY Network publication. In a city known to implode the old in spectacular fashion to make way for the new, this downtown property is celebrating a rare milestone – its 115th birthday. Opened in 1906, the hotel-casino was the first to welcome guests to the famed Fremont Street corridor. Its address tells that precise story: 1 Fremont Street. Step inside the hotel-casino, and you’ll find other relics that were also firsts in Las Vegas history. Behind glass in the hotel lobby is a replica of the first telephone installed in Las Vegas. The number? “Ring 1.”