Any friend or acquaintance of Paul Bender, or merely a casino chip collector who is interested in history of the early US gaming joints in the 1930’s-1940’s, will enjoy “The Joints of Jeffersonville, IN”, 270 pgs. The book is chock-full of info, photos and the history of the gambling joints in a non-Nevada area.

Paul says, “The book is a factual and historical look at the many illegal gambling joints that came to make Jeffersonville and the surrounding areas infamous in the early 20th Century. Nationally syndicated columnist, Westbrook Pegler penned in one of his columns that Jeffersonville was ‘as wild as Reno and Caliente.’ Along with the gamblers came bombings and shootings. Local businessmen, law enforcement and politicians alike were complacent in the very existence of the joints. The people, the events and the happenings are real!”li