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Quick Fact – Stevens’ Jewelry

Doresa Banning — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 23:44:26 +0000

1970

When Connie Stevens, entertainer, departed after a stay at the Kings Castle hotel-casino in Incline Village, Nevada, she accidentally left $20,000 ($122,000 today) worth of jewelry in her suite.

Linda Cooley, a housekeeping team member, discovered the stash and promptly turned it over to the proper authorities. Stevens, who’d been robbed of jewelry recently in New York, got back everything she’d taken with her to Kings Castle.

Quick Fact – Polygraph Used

Doresa Banning — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 22:53:02 +0000

1970-1974

During the years Kings Castle at Lake Tahoe in Northern Nevada was open, management routinely used polygraphs on employees, particularly for questions about cheating, theft and employment.

Photo from freeimages.com: “No Lies”

Quick Fact – Lady Cocoa

Doresa Banning — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 22:38:25 +0000

1975

The blaxploitation thriller, Lady Cocoa (also titled Pop Goes the Weasel), was filmed in Northern Nevada.

It starred singer-dancer Lola Folana, former San Francisco 49er Gene Washington and former Pittsburgh Steeler Joe Green,

The movie climaxes with a snowmobile-versus-car chase through the lobby, around the casino and into the swimming pool of the Kings Castle resort at Lake Tahoe’s North Shore.