riverboat casinos
Gambling on water
Riverboat casinos are gambling establishments built on boats, originally required by law to operate on navigable waterways in states that prohibited land-based casinos.
Many were paddlewheel-style vessels evoking nineteenth-century Mississippi River steamboats.
Some states required the boats to cruise during gambling hours; others allowed them to remain docked.
Today many riverboat casinos are permanently moored or built on barges that never move, making the "boat" distinction largely a legal fiction.
- gamblingBetting on uncertain results
- high stakesSignificant potential for loss
- all inFully committed, nothing reserved
- paddlewheelRotating blades propelling vessels
- MississippiSouthern state or major river
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- ShreveportShreveport, state fair, Highland, Southwood, Lakeshore
- beach funbeach volleyball, beach parties, beach bar, beach chairs, beach cabanas
- LouisianaNew Orleans, Baton Rouge, Bourbon Street, Shreveport, French Quarter
- Western KentuckyPaducah, Murray, Mayfield, Benton, Hickman
riverboat casinosspeakeasies
Illicit liquor establishments
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