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Gambler's Book Club / GBC Press is a bookstore & small press dedicated to gambling. Now located at 5473 S Eastern Ave in Paradise, Nevada, it was originally located in the Huntridge area of Las Vegas. The company has operated for over 40 years.
Carl Cohen (February 15, 1913 – December 26, 1986), [1] was an American executive in the gambling resort industry in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the 1940s through 1970s and is credited with playing an important role in the development of Las Vegas as a premier resort destination.
In 1978, businessman Leroy Merillat bought a sportsbook in a strip mall in Downtown Las Vegas, and named it “Leroy’s” after himself. [1] [2] The following year, Nevada gaming regulators found Merillat unsuitable for licensing because of questions about the propriety of a land deal in California, and he was forced to sell the business.
Bachelor parties, Elvis and Julia Roberts. Over the next decade Vegas got fancier and splashier. As casinos opened across the US and Nevada no longer had a monopoly on gambling, the city broadened ...
James George Snyder Sr. (born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos, September 9, 1918 – April 21, 1996), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker. A regular contributor to the CBS program The NFL Today , Snyder predicted the scores of NFL games, which sports bettors used to determine the point spread .
The Las Vegas Gamblers were a semi-professional ice hockey team from Las Vegas, Nevada. The club was a founding member of the California-Nevada Hockey League and, by all accounts, the first formal ice hockey team in the state of Nevada .
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Gaming Control Board filed a disciplinary complaint Thursday alleging that one of the largest casinos on the Las Vegas Strip welcomed illegal bookmaking, people with ...
The Wild Wild West Gambling Hall & Hotel was a hotel and casino in Paradise, Nevada, near the Las Vegas Strip. It was owned and operated by Station Casinos . While the casino and adjoining 260-room hotel were relatively small, the site is over 58 acres (23 ha) [ 3 ] in size.