Cripple Creek’s high-stakes battle for historic renewal
In the heart of Cripple Creek’s downtown, a crane hoists steel girders over a quickly growing skeleton of concrete and steel. The sleek, boxy structure poses a stark contrast with the worn brick facades across the street, many built more than 100 years ago.
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Interesting gambling facts:
- Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.
- U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
- The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
- The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
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