Gaming History - Week of April 02, 2023
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| April 2nd |
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| 2023 - Sunday |
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| 1931 - Reno, NV. The Silver Slipper, at 1410 East Fourth Street, which had been in operation before gambling was legallized, received its gaming license. The Silver Slipper was closed for some months in 1936/1937, and the location operated as the Black Derby for a few months in 1937, then changed the name back to Silver Slipper until the fall of 1941. In December of 1941 it reopened as the Sphynx. Fire destroyed the building in 1943. |
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| 1966 - Reno, NV. Val's Club opened at 333 East Second Street, the former location of Swede's Club. Val's operated until November of 1967. |
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| 1990 - Atlantic City, NJ. The Trump Taj Mahal is a closed casino and hotel on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, owned by Trump Entertainment Resorts, a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises.The casino was inaugurated by its then-owner Donald Trump in 1990, and was built at a total cost of nearly one billion dollars. Restaurants at the Taj include Dynasty, Il Mulino New York, Moon at Dynasty, Robert's Steakhouse, and Hard Rock Cafe. It was also the home of Scores, the country's first in-casino strip club.The Taj Mahal came to the brink of closure in 2014 as its parent company went through bankruptcy, but ultimately remained open under the new ownership of Icahn Enterprises. On August 3, 2016, it was announced that the Trump Taj Mahal would close after Labor Day. It closed at 5:59 AM on October 10, 2016. |
| Link to: Trump Taj Mahal Wikipedia
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| 2024 - Las Vegas, NV. The Tropicana closed on April 2, 2024. It will be demolished to make way for a major league baseball stadium. . |
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| April 3rd |
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| 2023 - Monday |
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| 1931 - Reno, NV. The Palm Cafe, 260 Lake Street, received a license for poker. Later this was the location for the New China Club. |
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| 1931 - Reno, NV. The Sagebrush Club, at 129 East Douglas Alley, was one of the small bars/clubs that was issued a gaming license for a few months when gaming was legalized. . |
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| 1941 - Las Vegas, NV. El Rancho Vegas was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. It was located at 2500 Las Vegas Boulevard, at the southwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue, and opened on April 3, 1941. Until 1942, it was the largest hotel in Las Vegas with 110 rooms. On June 17, 1960, the hotel was destroyed by fire. In 1982, the El Rancho Hotel and Casino formerly known as the Thunderbird and later as the Silverbird opened across the street from the former site of the El Rancho Vegas, creating some confusion. |
| Link to: The El Rancho Wikipedia
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| April 4th |
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| 2023 - Tuesday |
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| 1955 - Reno, NV. Doll House opened at 2250 South Virginia St, Reno. |
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| 1955 - Las Vegas, NV. The property started as a nightclub called Pair-O-Dice that opened in 1930, then The Ambassador Night Club in 1936 and was renamed the 91 Club in 1939 for its location on US-91. It was subsequently rebuilt and renamed the "Hotel Last Frontier" in 1942. On April 4, 1955, it was renamed the New Frontier, following a modernization of the resort. The resort had the distinction of hosting Elvis Presley's first Vegas appearance in 1956, and the final performance of Diana Ross and The Supremes on January 14, 1970. |
| Link to: New Last Frontier Wikipedia
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| 1957 - Las Vegas, NV. Tropicana Las Vegas is a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Penn National Gaming. It offers 1,467 rooms and a 50,000-square-foot gaming floor. Tropicana Las Vegas also has 100,000 sq ft of convention and exhibit space.This location, Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection, has the most hotel rooms of any intersection in the world and is extremely busy. Pedestrians are not allowed to cross at street level. Instead, the Tropicana is linked by overhead pedestrian bridges to its neighboring casinos: to the north across Tropicana Avenue, the MGM Grand Las Vegas, and to the west across the Strip, the Excalibur. |
| Link to: Tropicana Wikipedia
Link to: Tropicana Website |
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| 1995 - New Orleans, LA. River City Crescent City Queen casino opens. |
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| 1995 - New Orleans, LA. River City Grand Palais casino opens. |
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| April 5th |
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| 2023 - Wednesday |
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| 1976 - In flight. Hughes was reported to have died on April 5, 1976, at 1:27 p.m. on board an aircraft owned by Robert Graf and piloted by Jeff Abrams. He was en route from his penthouse at the Acapulco Fairmont Princess Hotel in Mexico to the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. Other accounts indicate that he died in the flight from Freeport, Grand Bahama, to Houston.After receiving a call, his senior counsel, Frank P. Morse, ordered his staff to get his body on a plane and return him to the United States. It was common that foreign countries would hold a corpse as ransom so that an estate could not be settled. Morse ordered the pilots to announce Hughes' death once they entered U.S. airspace.
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| Link to: Howard Hughes Wikipedia
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| 2024 - Terre Haute, Indiana. Grand Opening. |
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| April 6th |
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| 2023 - Thursday |
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| 1931 - Reno, NV. Henry Club received one of the first gaming licenses in Reno. It opened at 133 Lake Street with one 21 game, poker and a craps game. A keno game and slots were added later. The club closed in 1932. |
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| 1931 - Reno, NV. The Wine House was licensed for a full casino. It was located at 16-18 East Commercial Row, with another entrance on Douglas Alley. It offered a bar and restaurant, as well as gambling. Eventually the restaurant operations took priority over the gambling. In 1961 the property was sold to Harolds Club. |
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| 2006 - Northwood, Iowa. Diamond Jo riverboat casino opens. |
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| April 7th |
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| 2023 - Friday |
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| 1931 - Reno, NV. From the 1920's until 1957 Lawton's Hot Springs Resort was operated by the Mark Yori family, and became known for its large swimming pool, park area and mineral baths. In 1931 Felix Turillas and John Etchebarren leased the property from the Yori family and obtained a gaming license for slots, craps, roulette and 21...the first of several gaming facilities to operate on the property. In 1936 & 1937 Gene Rovetti operated Club Lawton on the property. In 1938 there were eight greyhound races each night. From 1942-1943 The River House Club was open. In May of 1944 Bob Neeman's Reno Rancho opened, only to close in July. Gaming was sporadic on the property, and under several different operators. In October of 1957, Mark Yori sold the property, which would eventually become the Holiday Lodge. . |
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| Laughton's Hot Springs was mis-spelled "Lawton's" on their first signs. The signs were not changed, so both spellings were used. |
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| April 8th |
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| 2023 - Saturday |
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| 1939 - Las Vegas, NV. Mission Club, 2nd & Fremont opens, downtown Las Vegas. |
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| 1947 - Las Vegas, NV. Club Bingo open as the forth casino on highway 91, which is now called the Las Vegas strip, on July 24, 1947. The Sahara Hotel would be built later on the same location in 1952.
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| 1996 - Robinsonville, MS. Harrah's Mardi Gras opens. |
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