The Strange Tale of Whiskey Pete

Located about 40 miles south of Las Vegas on Interstate 15, Primm, Nevada has about 300,000 cars drive by it every day and consists of three casinos, a few shops, and several gas stations. Long before this place was known as Primm though, it was called State Line, and a man named Whiskey Pete terrorized a number of motorists who dared to stop at his service station.

From the late 1920s to the early 1930s Whiskey Pete McIntyre ran a service station at State Line, and his reputation was so bad that even the Las Vegas paper was writing about him. Quite a few travelers between Las Vegas and Southern California regretted stopping at his station, one even left with a bullet wound. His legend in these parts was so well known, when Ernest Primm decided to open a casino at the California and Nevada border, he called it Whiskey Pete's. Little did he know though, Pete had never left and would be making a surprising return.

In this video we visit Primm, talk about the legend of Whiskey Pete, and check out the place where he was refound.

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