Reno, Nevada: Birthplace of Denim Jeans
Plaque at former location of Jacob Davis's Tailor Shop where Jacob devised a way to use copper rivets to strengthen work pants he made using denim from Levi Strauss and Co. of San Francisco.
- Address:
- 211 North Virginia St., Reno, NV
- Directions:
- North of W 2nd St., on sidewalk outside the Knitting Factory (perhaps now named "RockBar") concert house, North Virginia Street.
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The marker is on the same block at the giant RENO sign and also the Blarney Stone.
[Ohio Tourist, 12/22/2015]
If you blink you will miss it driving by, but it is in front the music venue named the Knitting Factory, and by the world famous Reno arch.
[SpicyV, 01/03/2014]
In North Virginia Street, opposite Harrah's, is a plaque proclaiming that it is the location of Jacob Davis's Tailor Shop where, in 1871, Jacob hit upon the idea of using copper rivets to strengthen the work pants he made using denim from Levi Strauss and Co. of San Francisco.
He later formed a partnership with Levi Strauss and 'the American fashion icon Levi's jeans was born'.
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May 2012: Photo added.