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Quick Fact – Rural Gambling Ban

1954 Due to the 1953 scandal in Wells, Nevada, the state tax commissioners in June 1954 prohibited open gambling in the town of Jackpot, just south of the Nevada-Idaho border along U.S. Route 93. They worried…

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Gambling Affront: Elko Disses Jackpot

1960 When one rural Nevada town grew into a gambling hot spot in the mid-1900s, the gamblers in another loudly grumbled. Soon after Idaho outlawed slot machines, its last vestige of legal gambling, the sagebrush-…

Did You Know? Holiday--Nevada Jackpot--Nevada Quick Facts

Quick Fact – Holiday Dream

1961 Dick Seller boasted that, within a year, a new luxury gambling resort would be built 100 miles from civilization, on a 100-acre parcel he owned (and named Holiday) in Humboldt County in Nevada’s desert…

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Quick Fact – Rural Gambling Ban

Gambling Affront: Elko Disses Jackpot

Quick Fact – Holiday Dream