Gambling board rejects push to speed truck stop casino licensing
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) A bid to speed the licensing of truck stop mini-casinos by dropping a requirement that the Louisiana Gaming Control Board approve each new license at its monthly meetings was rejected Tuesday by the gambling board.
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Casino gambling information:
- The El Rancho Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas was known for a few firsts. It was the first casino/resort on the Strip opening in 1941 with 63 guestrooms. It was also the first to offer a buffet. The cost of the buffet was only $1.00! The El Rancho burned down in 1960 and fortunately no one was hurt.
- It was during the 1930's that slot machines began to become very popular across America, and in the late 40's Bugsy Siegel added machines to his Flamingo Hilton hotel in Las Vegas.
- The term "turned the tables" is actually a chess term coming from the mid 1600's. When a player was losing, they would physically turn the chess table to assume the winning side of the table.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
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