It’s all in the cards for ‘Bingo!’

Don’t look for any electronic versions of bingo at the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre’s new production of the musical “Bingo!” by Ilene Reid, Michael Heitzman and David Holcenberg. It’s paper bingo cards and old-school ink-daubers for the cast and audience.

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Fri, December 29th, 2006

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Casino gambling information:

  • Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
  • 1941: The Strip gets its first luxury hotel. El Rancho Vegas sets the trend for many of the themed resorts that sprout along the Strip in later years.
    1942: The first wedding chapel, the Little Church of the West, opens on the Strip in the Last Frontier Hotel.
  • Blackjack originated in French casinos around the 1700's where it was called "vingt-et-un" (twenty-and-one) and has been in United States since the 1800's.
  • In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).