Local legislator says constituent calls oppose bingo center
State Rep. Benjamin Lewis, R-Dothan, said he is against the spread of electronic bingo into Houston County, and questions the authority of the Houston County Commission to change the regulations that would allow a large-scale operation at Country Crossing.
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Gambling history facts:
- 1951: On September 4, Frank Sinatra makes his Vegas debut, performing in the Crystal Room at the Desert Inn.
1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino. - The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
- Las Vegas in Nevada owes its success to the mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel who organized gaming and bookmaking operations for The Mob (the Mafia).
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
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