Casino history is easier to grasp when you can see it in the objects people...

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Casino history is easier to grasp when you can see it in the objects people handled: worn playing cards, roulette wheels, and slot reels. In San Francisco in 1895, Charles Fey’s Liberty Bell machine helped shape the modern slot machine