Bingo, barkeep! Minneapolis lifts booze ban at bingo sites
You’ll soon be able to mix drinking and daubing in Minneapolis. The City Council voted 12-0 today to lift a longstanding ban on serving alcohol where bingo is played, a move that puts it in conformance with most of the rest of the state. The proposal by Council Member Paul Ostrow was made at the request of the Northeast Lions Club and other charitable organizations. Places where charitable groups …
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Casino gambling facts:
- 1926: Las Vegas gets a regular air service. Western Air Express flies between Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. The airfield later becomes the site for the famous Sahara and Hilton hotels.
1931: Gambling is legalized in Nevada on March 19. Construction begins on the long awaited Hoover Dam. - Baccarat is the principal of casino card games in the United Kingdom and Europe. Blackjack is a fixture in all American casinos.
- In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
- The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
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