Rendell defends record on property taxes
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Gov. Ed Rendell defended himself Monday against Republican gubernatorial hopeful Lynn Swann’s charge that he has done “nothing” to combat soaring property taxes, saying the legalization of slot-machine gambling was a crucial step toward one of the biggest tax cuts in Pennsylvania’s history.
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Do you know that:
- The first games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
- The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
- The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
- Many casinos in Nevada were financed by mobsters. Most notable perhaps was Las Vegas' Flamingo which was opened in 1947 by Bugsy Siegel.
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