Gaming History - Week of October 04, 2020
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| October 4th |
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| 2020 - Sunday |
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| 1982 - Las Vegas, NV. Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal starts his Cadillac Eldorado and ignites a bomb at Tony Roma's, 620 E. Sahara Avenue at 8:30 p.m. Miraculously, Rosenthal escaped the blast with minor injuries, thanks to a steel plate under the driver's seat (standard on that model). Anthony Spilotro, his relationship with Rosenthal on the decline, was the prime suspect. |
| Link to: Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal Wikipedia
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| Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal's Cadillac Eldorado |
Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal |
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| 1996 - Bossier City, LA. Casino Magic! opens. |
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| 1996 - Rising Sun, IN. Grand Victoria casino opens. |
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| October 5th |
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| 2020 - Monday |
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| 1932 - Reno, NV. The Town House Casino, 39 West First Street, was licensed for slots, 21, craps and roulette. Successful for a time, in November of 1937 the Town House assets were sold at auction, with the proceeds going to the creditors. A month or so later, the Town House reopened under new ownership, and "The Riding Lesson" was adopted as the logo. Over the years there were various ownership and management changes, and varying degrees of financial success. The Club closed and filed for bankruptcy in 1950, but reopened in 1951. On September 2, 1955, the Town House was destroyed by fire; arson-the casinos leaseholder had deliberately burned the Town House down, according to the courts . |
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an ad from July, 1954 |
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| October 6th |
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| 2020 - Tuesday |
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| 1934 - Las Vegas, NV. Barrel House Casino opens, 22 E. Fremont St., Las Vegas. |
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| October 7th |
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| 2020 - Wednesday |
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| 1931 - Reno, NV. The Keno Club opened at 6:30 p.m., at 232 North Virginia Street. The club initially opened with just keno (bingo), but added table games soon after. The Keno Club closed in December of 1931. In August of 1932 it reopened as the New Keno Club, with new owners. It closed again in the same year, then reopened as the Reno Club. |
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| 1952 - Las Vegas, NV. The hotel was formerly known as the Sahara Hotel and Casino. It was in operation under that name for 59 years from 1952 to 2011. The hotel had 1,720 guestrooms and suites with a casino covering more than 85,000 square feet and sits on 55 acres including the empty adjoining land. The hotel is the site of the Sahara Ave station, the northernmost stop for the Las Vegas Monorail. The Sahara was one of the last remaining vintage "Rat Pack" casino-hotels, leaving only the Flamingo, The Riviera, Caesars Palace, and The Tropicana. The Sahara anchored the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip. The porte-cochere entrance, topped by an onion-dome minaret, was designed to set the resort's warm Moroccan flavor and hospitality for arriving guests. |
| Link to: Sahara Hotel Wikipedia
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| 1955 - Las Vegas, NV. The Golden Gate Hotel & Casino is located at One Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the United States. A part of the Fremont Street Experience, it is the oldest and smallest hotel (106 rooms) on the Fremont Street Experience. |
| Link to: Golden Gate Casino Website
Link to: Golden Gate Casino Wikipedia |
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| October 8th |
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| 2020 - Thursday |
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| 1987 - Atlantic City, NJ. The Golden Nugget casino became Bally's Grand. |
| Link to: Ballys Grand Wikipedia
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| October 9th |
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| 2020 - Friday |
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| 2009 - Wellington, Kansas. Greg Susong died. Greg was responsible for: The ChipBoard, The ChipGuide, The StrikePoint, and The Slot Card BBS. He is a member of the CC>CC Hall of Fame. He was the webmaster of the CC>CC website. He ran the Tuesday night before the start of the annual CC>CC convention Online Chippers Party at the Palms Casino. A tradition started during the convention's run at the Riviera was Friday lunch at Kady's Coffee Shop, which we named in his honor, the Susong Burger Lunch. He was one of the four Limo Studs. He beamed the convention by webcam to those who could not attend. He was an organizer of the Wednesday night online Chippers poker tournament. He turned a hobby of remote individuals into a community. A community of friends. His contributions to the hobby are second to none. |
| Link to: Greg Susong on YouTube
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| October 10th |
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| 2020 - Saturday |
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| 1931 - Las Vegas, NV. Tango Parlor opens at 123 South Main Street, downtown Las Vegas, closes in 5 months - a/k/a Tango Club. |
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| 1944 - Reno, NV. The Nevada Bar was licensed to offer roulette and Keno (bingo) at 1002 East Fourth Street. . |
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| 2016 - Atlantic City NJ. In February 2016, Trump Entertainment Resorts exited bankruptcy and became a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises. The casino retained the name "Trump Taj Mahal", though Donald Trump no longer held any ownership stake. Shortly thereafter, an agreement was announced for the Taj Mahal to be managed by another Icahn affiliate, Tropicana Entertainment. Icahn also stated he would withhold a planned $100-million investment into the property if New Jersey approved casinos in the northern region of the state.On August 3, 2016, it was announced that the Trump Taj Mahal shut down permanently on October 10, 2016.
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| Link to: Trump Taj Mahal Wikipedia
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