Tuesday August 22, 2006 - 12:33 EST
TEXAS As reported by the Austin Business Journal: “Littlefield Corp. has plans for a new bingo hall in San Angelo. “The Austin company will open Let It Ride Bingo in a space adjacent to its existing bingo hall in the fourth quarter of this year.
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Interesting gambling information:
- Lotteries Have Been Prominent Throughout History. Ancient India, China, Greece, and Japan all had lotteries. The emperor Nero had lotteries for prizes at parties.
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
- Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.
- The most significant forms of illegal gambling in the United States are numbers, betting with bookmakers or bookies, and sports pools or sports cards.
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