The Cleveland Syndicate scraficed the LH in 1952 to satisy the fallout from the Kefauver hearings.
The deal was, we will give you the LH and you will leave the rest of the joints alone.
It worked for 9 years until Bobby Kennedy came along.
They made the same deal in Elmwood. The Walk A Show and the Blade were closed in 1952. The gambling went on.
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