Uncategorized – Gambling-History.com https://gambling-history.com History of Gambling in the U.S. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:02:44 +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 Uncategorized – Gambling-History.com https://gambling-history.com 32 32 Featured: The Special Refund Policy at Harolds Club https://gambling-history.com/featured-the-special-refund-policy-at-harolds-club/ https://gambling-history.com/featured-the-special-refund-policy-at-harolds-club/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:49:22 +0000 https://gambling-history.com/?p=1616 Harolds Club, a casino founded in 1935 in Reno, Nevada, acted uniquely when it came to refunding customers! Historian and author Alicia Barber explains in her report.

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Ironically, considering the entity’s name, water poured inside the Showboat Hotel (later Castaways) when flash floods hit Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday, August 8. At 2800 E. Fremont Street, east of the city, the gambling room, restaurant, and show and guestrooms were evacuated.

Other casinos were forced to do the same, including Caesars Palace, on the Strip, which had water, enough to swim, gush inside.

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