Bill Ledbetter, who married Beverly Gross – Harvey and Llewellyn’s only child – today is Harveys’ vice chairman. Gross died in 1983, but ownership was kept in the family. But the unsinkable Gross attended the grand opening of his remodeled hotel only nine months later. Another major expansion phase in 1980 was punctuated by a extortionist bomb, which blew a five-story hole in the hotel tower. Harveys became the first high-rise on the South Shore in the early 1960s with the completion of an 11-story, 197-room hotel.
And as Lake Tahoe grew as a year-round resort destination, Harveys grew also.
