Gambling: Prizes – Gambling-History.com https://gambling-history.com History of Gambling in the U.S. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:07:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gambling-history.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-Kings-Castle-Chip-32x32.png Gambling: Prizes – Gambling-History.com https://gambling-history.com 32 32 Quick Fact – Bonus of Hosiery https://gambling-history.com/quick-fact-bonus-of-hosiery/ https://gambling-history.com/quick-fact-bonus-of-hosiery/#respond Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:09:01 +0000 https://gambling-history.com/?p=2345

Tango game, Las Vegas, Nevada

1946

Some Las Vegas, Nevada casinos handed out women’s nylons as slot machine and tango game* prizes.

When the city’s board of commissioners found out, they banned it, threatening repeat offenders with losing their gambling license.

It wasn’t the hosiery the officials took offense to; it was the casinos offering merchandise to encourage the playing of traditional games of chance.

“We are endeavoring to maintain gaming on a high plane and feel bound to discourage and eliminate any practice which may impugn the dignity of our gaming establishments,” they said (Nevada State Journal, Oct. 12, 1946).

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* Tango is similar to bingo and keno

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Recognize these automobiles? A Pinto, Chevelle, Javelin and Datsun 240Z?

Harrah’s hotel-casino in Reno, Nevada gave them away as well as cash in four weekly drawings for $35,000 worth of prizes ($205,000 today) over the winter holidays in 1972.

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