I spent many a night dining at the Lookout House and in the Little Club.

"Back before the Emancipation, the house stood above one of the central points of the slave's underground railroad. Stories of ghosts and weird happenings were always associated with the club."

After the club burned, an after hours joint ran in the basement which did not burn. It was weird down there. Water ran down the walls. It was lit with candles. There were tunnels running off the basement that ran all the way down the hill under the city of Covington to the Ohio river. I'm guessing about 5 miles. Was told the tunnels were part of the underground railway. I was escorted down one for a look see. About 100 feet down, I decided I had seen enough. I kept invisioning Dracula to be around the next turn.

Little known fact:

"For years it raked in money until 1952 when the Kefauver Commission on Organized Crime came knocking on the front door."

The Cleveland Syndicate made a deal with the Kefauver Commission in 1952.
They would close the Lookout House if the Kefauver Commission would leave Beverly Hills and their other joints untouched. The Kefauver Commission took the deal. Beverly ran until 1961 and the April Flowers scandal finally put an end to Clevelands control over N KY gambling.

The deal did not include Clevelands joints in Elmwood and The Nasons were all but shut down across the river.

BTW, the Lookout House Little club did have craps and BJ in the mid to late 1960's. It was in different hands by then. Same people owned the LH when it burned that owned Beverly when it burned.