53% in poll back Patrick casinos plan
A majority of Massachusetts residents supports Governor Deval Patrick’s proposal to license resort-style casinos across the state, according to a Boston Globe poll that indicated that legalized gambling has become an accepted part of the region’s cultural landscape.
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Casino gambling facts:
- Las Vegas in Nevada owes its success to the mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel who organized gaming and bookmaking operations for The Mob (the Mafia).
- The Great Wall of China was financed, in part, by a lottery. The Bible is replete with references to drawing lots. Lot casting was a favored means of communication between man and god.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
- 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.
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