Specifically curious what states/indian casino areas (if any) had legal gambling for 18-20 year olds in that era?
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Specifically curious what states/indian casino areas (if any) had legal gambling for 18-20 year olds in that era?
OP's thread should be interesting as it brings up the history of Indian Gaming. From what I've read the roots of Indian Gaming lay in a tax case in the 70's in Minnesota. This Indian couple living on Indian land received a property tax bill from the county. They figured the county had no right to tax them so took it to court. They lost the case and the appeals all the way up until they got to SCOTUS. SCOTUS ruled that not only did the county or state not have the right to tax Indian land, but they also had no right to control activities on Indian land. That led to tribes opening up bingo halls.
Time do do away with the tribal land bullshit.
Well Pepe was asking about legal age in the mid to late 90's as opposed to current legal age in various areas. The age restriction legislation may have remained constant or it may not have.
When I turned 18, my dad took me to the Ho-Chunk in Wisconsin. That would have been in the mid nineties.
I went to the dog track in Kansas as a kid. As well as the bingo halls there and in Oklahoma. Sat at the bar in town too with my grandpa. Late 70's and early 80's. Then again when I lived on the farm for 2 years I drove to school and back to my grandparents farm when I was in 3rd and 4th grade. Not sure if any of it was legal except for farm kids being allowed to drive. People weren't a bunch of bitches back then. Especially in rural America.
Rest in Peace to the kids of today.
Mickey, not sure that is the correct story. The start of Indian gaming happened in the U.P. of MI with Fred Dakota better known as the Father of Indian Casino Gaming. I have talked with Fred (well mostly just said "hi") when I saw him in the casino. Very interesting character. The first tribal casino also happened in the U.P. with Bay Mills being the first to offer games beside Bingo. Here is Fred's story.
http://www.indiangaming.com/istore/Jan10_Dakota.pdf
https://www.cmich.edu/library/clarke...-Michigan.aspx
why would you want that that removes a lot of places we can play?
Main reason for the question is for planning what to do if I ever get a chance to Quantum Leap myself lol. Besides get in on the Google and Amazon IPOs, and getting Bitcoin when that becomes a thing...
I recall years ago going to an Indian joint at Lake Chelan in Washington state; my son brought a young lady friend who had ID saying she was eighteen.
Eighteen was the legal age then.
Come to find out the two of them out foxed me: she was much younger (fake ID).
"Sometimes you bite the bear, and sometimes the bear bites you."
Fake IDs where easy to get into bars/casinos etc 25-30 years ago, now probably a lot harder to succeed.