Gaming History - Week of May 07, 2017
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| May 8th |
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| 2017 - Monday |
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| 1892 - Reno, NV. Lew Hymers was born, in Reno, Nevada. Lew Hymers was an artist and caricaturist whose work was used on numerous casino ads, matchbooks, postcards and even a casino chip, in the 1940's and 1950's. |
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| An ad by Lew Hymers |
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| 1931 - Reno, NV. The New York Club opened at 224 North Center Street. The glamorous Club was designed to appeal to ladies, both local and those who were in town to establish the residency required to obtain a divorce. In 1935 the Greyhound Company bought the club, and established a bus depot at that location. |
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| 1940 - Reno, NV. Martin's Bar, at 22 East Commercial Row, was licensed for poker only. It closed less than eight months later. |
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| 1992 - Badsteben, Germany. Harold Smith, Jr. passed away at the age of 59, in a cancer clinic in Germany. |
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| May 9th |
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| 2017 - Tuesday |
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| 1994 - Tunica, MS. Treasure Bay Casino opens. |
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| 2006 - Las Vegas, NV. Boardwalk became a public corporation (Boardwalk Casino, Inc.) in 1994. The carnival facade was built the following year and a 15-floor, 451-room tower was finished in 1996. It was later acquired by Mirage Resorts in 1997. When MGM took ownership in 2000, the Holiday Inn name was dropped.The hotel and casino closed on January 9, 2006, and the main hotel tower was imploded on May 9, 2006. The property is now the location of CityCenter. |
| Link to: Boardwalk Implosion
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| May 10th |
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| 2017 - Wednesday |
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| 1962 - Reno, NV. The United Club Room, 27 East Douglas Alley, was licensed for slots, blackjack and poker. It operated until October 21, 1964. |
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| May 11th |
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| 2017 - Thursday |
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| 1935 - Las Vegas, NV. Frontier Club opens at 117 East Fremont Street, downtown Las Vegas. |
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| May 12th |
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| 2017 - Friday |
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| 1999 - Charles Mapes, a long time Reno casino owner, died in a San Diego hospital. |
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| May 13th |
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| 2017 - Saturday |
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| 1953 - Reno, NV. The Willows opened on South Virginia Street, 1.3 miles south of Gentry Way. It was a restaurant that offered craps and 21 until May of 1956. |
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2009 - Las Vegas, NV. Claudine Williams, who bought her first casino before she was 21 and who in Las Vegas proved that women could stand up to men in the corporate world of gaming, died today after a lengthy illness. She was 88.
Williams may best be known as the long-serving chairwoman of Harrah's, the successor of the Holiday Casino that she and her husband, Shelby, opened in 1973. Williams was the first woman to be enshrined in the Nevada Gaming Hall of Fame. |
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