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HOW CAN YOU RESIST A MAN who’s not ashamed to wisecrack: “My wife is a child analyst: I needed someone to cope with my age group - 77 going on eight.” Even more beguiling is the way Al Alvarez’s conversation …
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Fri, January 19th, 2007

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Gambling history facts:

  • 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.
  • Indian tribes have used their position as sovereign entities to develop a number of gaming establishments. Indian casinos operate in 22 states. This number is expected to grow.
  • U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
  • Horse racing is the best known and widespread parimutuel betting event. Horse racing is the only form of partimutuel wagering legal in California.