Coastal community news briefs for Sunday, May 18
Oceanside Elks to hold bingo OCEANSIDE —- Oceanside Elks Lodge 1561 will hold bingo at 1 p.m. May 18 at 444 Country Club Lane. A free hamburger, fries and soda will be served from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to all who buy in. Call (760) 433-1561.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- 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.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
- Lotteries were brought to America in the 1800s by the thousands of Chinese immigrants who worked in the mines and on the railroads.
- Baccarat is the principal of casino card games in the United Kingdom and Europe. Blackjack is a fixture in all American casinos.
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