WHEN GAMBLING LOTTERY GAMES WAS ILLEGAL
AROUND 1946, I OCCASONALLY HELPED A FRIEND IN HIS MEN’S SHOP. MY FRIEND’S FATHER ACCEPTED BETS ON THE NUMBERS GAME WHICH WAS ILLEGAL AT THIS TIME.
THIS LOTTERY GAME WAS LIMITED TO BETTING ON THREE (3) NUMBERS IN ANY SEQUENCE,LIKE STRAIGHT OR IN COMBINATION.WINNING NUMBERS WERE OBTAINED THROUGH SOME “FORMULA”DERIVED FROM RACE TRACK PAYMENTS IN DIFFERENT AREAS.INDIVIDUAL BACKERS ACCEPTED THE BETS AND PAID THE WINNERS APPROXIMATELY 600 TO ONE.
THERE WERE NO LOTTERY MACHINES .AN INDIVIDUAL DRESSED AS A LABORER WOULD PICK UP THE BETS,DAILY;..THE WRITERS RECEIVED A COMMISSION ON THE AMOUNTOF CAPITAL COLLECTED. PERIODICALLY I RECALL SEEING A WELL DRESSED INDIVIDUAL CONVERSING WITH MY FRIEND’S FATHER,WHO I WAS TOLD WAS
AN EMPLOYEE OF THE LOCAL POLICE STATION. LIKE TODAY, MANY AMERICANS HOPED TO ACQUIRE MONEY WITHOUT WORKING.
RECENTLY, GAMBLING CASINOS,OFFERING MULTIPLE GAMES OF CHANCE HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO OPEN THEIR DOORS IN MARYLAND,,ATTRACTING MANY CUSTOMERS.
THINGS CHANGE!!
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