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Games / Races: Creators / Manufacturers: Dick Graves
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Golden Rooster: Advertising or Art?
1957-1962 Perhaps it was a bird-brained idea; perhaps not. In 1957, Dick Graves, the owner of the Nugget, in Sparks, Nevada, commissioned a handcrafted, solid gold rooster for display in one of his hotel-casino restaurants,…