Like chips and hot sauce or fleas on a dog. Duh!
Once again, the issue of bringing gambling back to the place where gambling was invented (at least in Texas) is heating up, with yea-sayers and nay-sayers on both sides. What a shock.
Historic Galveston seawall
But if you ask me, I’m ready to hang my chad and vote YES.
What, are you kidding me? BRING IT ON!
It’s past time for us Galvestonians to recapture a bit of our colorful past. And making a shiny coin or two in the process for this beleaguered but beloved old town wouldn’t hurt my feelings a bit.
By the way, here’s where I snatched the great historic graphic pictured here. And look closely—I do believe that’s the famous Balinese Room pier stretching out into the Gulf, site of all manner of early-forties hijinks, when the likes of Phil Harris, Frank Sinatra, Sophie Tucker, Tony Bennett, even a Marx brother or two or three, among so many famous others, rolled the dice inside, then sat out and sipped highballs over the surf. Gotta love it.
If you’d like a terrific read on Galveston’s colorful gambling past and much more, from one of her native sons, do check out Bill Cherry’s great book. I love this stuff!
