Bingo Goes North
Bingo Barnes, the former editor of the Boise Weekly , is headed to the wild north. Barnes, 39, was just named publisher of the Anchorage Press in Alaska’s largest city. “It’s a good paper, and there is room for improvement,” Barnes said…. By Shea Andersen.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- 1967: Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Anne Beaulieu on May 1 in the chapel of the Aladdin Hotel.
1970: Binion's Horseshoe casino hosts the first World Series of Poker.
1971: Female card dealers begin working on the Strip for the first time. - Riverboat casinos were first legalized in Iowa, then Illinois, followed closely by Missouri, Indiana, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
- The most popular forms of illegal games are "numbers", which is essentially a lottery, and betting with bookies, typically sports betting.
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
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