Gambling Just Got Better At The Fitz

It didn’t take long for Fitzgerald’s new director of marketing, Glenn Buxton, to inject his heavy casino marketing experience into the highly competitive Tunica casino jurisdiction once again, and with the new General Manager, Bob McQueen, now reigning in the Castle by the Mississippi, approval was swift in coming.

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Tue, April 25th, 2006

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    1971: Female card dealers begin working on the Strip for the first time.
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