California
Gambling: Bookmaking
Governing / Regulatory Bodies: Internal Revenue Service
Hy Goldbaum
It Really Happened
McNeil Island Corrections Center (WA)
West Hollywood--California
Bookies’ Bookies Not So Good With Numbers
1945-1955 In the late 1940s, three bookies — or commissioners, as they preferred to be called — operated on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California under the name, Golden News Service. Hy Goldbaum, George Capri…