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Across from the College of Charleston library, Mike McCann opens the gray housing of a parking meter and sticks a small screwdriver into a slot. “Bingo,” he says, fishing out a gum wrapper.

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Mon, May 19th, 2008

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  • In Paris, legislation prohibiting playing cards was passed in 1377, and in Italy, playing cards and dice were burned.
  • The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
  • In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
  • Charles Fey invented the first slot machine way back in 1895. He went on to perfect his initial innovation in 1907, when he teamed with Mills Novelty Company who manufactured the "Mills Liberty Bell".