This past summer producer Ellie Gordon Marshall took a trip to Reno, Nevada. Well, the temperature is approximately 150 degrees.

Maybe late July is not the best time for a pasty Canadian to visit Reno. The downtown sites are best seen after sunset anyway. All that neon, even on the cars.

Where is that coming from? Oh, car.

But I wasn't actually in Reno for the tricked out cars or casinos or cocktails. I was there on a run-of-the-mill 99-P-I mission to find a bridge.

Oh my God, now this is the bridge.

I still can't get over how high-pitched my voice goes there, but this was the Virginia

Street Bridge, a bridge I've heard many stories about. And apparently there's the long tradition of women throwing their ring in the river.

This is Anne Sturm. She grew up in Arlington, Virginia.

Her mother, Pat, came to Reno in the 1950s to throw her own wedding ring off this very bridge.

Anne's mom was in Reno to get divorced and she was taking part in what had become a final

right of passage for Reno divorcees.

You'd exit the courthouse with your new divorce decree, head two blocks to the Truckee River, and fling your wedding ring off the river. a She just said that tradition was throwing the ring and my mother did it too.

Pat's lawyer was there to witness the whole thing and he was appalled. He couldn't understand how she could dispose of such a valuable asset, so he literally ran into the river.

He was all dressed up in his suit and he rolled up his pants and maybe took off his shoes I don't know and

he walked out into that river and he found the ring and he came back and he said you may need this.

Stories like these were common in Reno because back then in the mid-20th century it was

internationally known as the divorce capital of the world. Reno was the best

bet for people who were searching for illegal escape from a marriage gone wrong.

Reno is a fascinating place to me because I love stories about divorce.

I even had a friend once tell me that I was pro-breakup.

She didn't mean it in a negative way. It was like she was just making an observation

about one of my political beliefs. Here's the thing. Both of my parents were divorced when they met and they never

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