Bowery Ballroom Used to Be a Shoe Store in NYC
This 1920s building on the Bowery had many lives before it became a legendary NYC music venue in the 1990s!
Photo from the Library of Congress A famous photograph of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia sledgehammering slot machines was part of a
In Part I of this short series, The One-Armed Bandit: Slot Machines and Organized Crime in New York City, we
The history of the slot machine industry in the United States, like many activities operated by organized crime syndicates, is
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