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1989: Gambling Starts Its Return to Deadwood

slot machine.jpgOn this date, April 11, 1989, Deadwood residents voted to legalize gambling in their historic community. 

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Deadwood Favors Gambling 

Voters overwhelmingly approved a return to legalized gambling Tuesday in this historic Black Hills town, where Wild Bill Hickock was shot to death in a frontier card game. City leaders hope games of chance will revive Deadwood's economy. The measure to legalize poker, blackjack and slot machines received 690 votes, or 75 percent, in favor to 112 votes against. The measure needed 60 percent to pass.

 

Posted on Monday, April 10, 2006 by Registered CommenterTodd Epp in | Comments1 Comment

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There's an old show biz maxim that applies here. "If you got it baby, flaunt it! Flaunt it!"

Dodge City would otherwise be nothing but another rest room stop on the Kansas plains. But they readily exploited their legends.

So go Deadwood!

And tune in again!
February 16, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterHorton Stevenson

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