Primm, however, was a challenged gaming market long before COVID-19. Buffalo Bill’s reopened just before Christmas after being closed for more than two years starting in March 2020 in response to the pandemic.
The move signified a new direction for Primm’s three casinos and the tiny gaming community and rest stop at the Nevada-California state line, some 44 miles south of downtown Las Vegas. It disappeared once before when it was used at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California as part of an exhibit honoring law enforcement.Īffinity Gaming moved the display in December across Interstate 15 to Buffalo Bill’s Casino Hotel, giving the vehicle and other memorabilia items a prominent place on the gaming floor – surrounded by glass and specially-produced Bonnie and Clyde spinning reel slot machines.
The historic V-8 Ford, in which notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow perished in a shootout with law enforcement in 1934, was missing from where it had been displayed since the late 1980s in the Primm casino.
Guests looking to view the bullet-riddled Bonnie and Clyde death car inside Whiskey’s Pete’s Hotel Casino were confused.
