The Talk of the Bingo Hall
Lebanon — The repartee was street-quality, staccato and faintly obscure, the sort of dialogue that might show up in a screenplay that was equal parts Reservoir Dogs and Cocoon . Beneath silent white lights, around fold-up cafeteria tables, the ladies of the Upper Valley Senior Center bent to their bingo boards.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- 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.
- At land-based casinos, both the player and the boxman need to be on the lookout for crooked dice in the game of craps. Each number when added together with the number on the side opposite it, will add up to 7. For example, 6 is opposite to 1. When the dice are crooked, they do not add up to 7.
- It was during the 1930's that slot machines began to become very popular across America, and in the late 40's Bugsy Siegel added machines to his Flamingo Hilton hotel in Las Vegas.
- Lotteries were brought to America in the 1800s by the thousands of Chinese immigrants who worked in the mines and on the railroads.
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