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The city had open gambling until 1961.
I've written about the Northern Kentucky of my youth when wide open gambling and the Mafia were pervasive, and I grew up in an environment where all kinds of colorful things happened, but we never understood at the time that they were colorful.
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Atlantic City long ago lost its East Coast casino monopoly as Indian tribes opened gambling outlets in eastern Connecticut and nearby states like Delaware and West Virginia legalized slot machines.
My late father was a professional gambler in the then wide-open gambling town of Newport, Kentucky.
He started in bookmaking, in the glory days of Covington and Newport, and moved into organizing junkets for Las Vegas casinos, when wide-open gambling faded from the Northern Kentucky scene.
And a plan to open a gambling casino in the area -- which has run into legal problems in recent weeks -- would bring a needed boost.
The story becomes rather convoluted, involving a plot in which the victim and the district attorney had been conniving to close the Frog Pad and open casino gambling in Tippo.
"They were away from their families in a remote place with wide open spaces, gambling and men who made it their job to make sure they had a pleasant time," Ms. Harmon said.
On his release, he headed for the big city, opening a gambling hall on 36th Street.
With few new states opening to gambling, casino companies will increasingly try to grow through acquisitions.
Mr Christie is said to be considering opening another gambling venue at the Meadowlands, which appals casino owners and politicians from the southern part of the Garden State.
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