You're right Dick, very broad, also Vegascentric. Nothing happened between '31 and Bugsy in '46 according to the Review Journal, just that Harolds Club was the biggest casino in the world. Howard Hughes bought casinos in 1966...but Bill Harrah bought a quonset hut at Stateline in '55 (it has since been remodeled). Aetna wrote a casino mortage years after Harrah found funding from New York banking and became in 1971 the first publicly traded casino stock. Names come and go but Lincoln Fitzgerald still has his moniker on a few stores here and there. As for the dearth of gaming history books, outside of Dwayne Kling's excellent encyclopedia, gathering Nevda gaming history remains a do-it-yourself project...and a lot of fun too!