Old Crooked Gambling Catalogs

These catalogs are soooo cool. This is where Vegas and illegal
casinos all over the country got their equipment in the 30's and 40's
and before. Loaded dice, marked cards, gaffed roulette wheels.
This stuff just fascinates me. There is no way you'll ever make
me believe casinos wouldn't still be doing this if it wasn't illegal.

On the AC Novelty page you have to scroll way down to see the
item. This guy has some unreal catalogs.


http://rwatts.cdyn.com/download/Evans%201909-1910%20Catalog/

http://www.zimbio.com/Old+Catalogs/articles/42/Collecting+Old+Crooked+Gambling+Catalogs

http://forrestflanderscentral.typepad.com/atlantic_city_novelty_co/1942-crooked-gambling-catalogblue-book.html

Look at page 11, it describes all the loaded dice they
sell. This is the old America, the supposedly moral
America. What a laugh.

http://rwatts.cdyn.com/download/Evans%201909-1910%20Catalog/11.pdf

Great stuff Bob! I wonder how many people ended up in the desert by using these?

Roulette wheel: "You win at will, absolutely." Big 6 Wheel: "Can be stopped at any place
desired. Detection impossible"

http://rwatts.cdyn.com/download/Evans%201909-1910%20Catalog/22.pdf

Quote: Boz

Great stuff Bob! I wonder how many people ended up in the desert by using these?

How much did a casino make when they had a 100% edge?

Look at this 1910 crap table, no back wall to bounce the
dice off of. They sell loaded dice for the players and ways
for the house to catch the player using them. And these
are the 'good old days', when we were such a moral
Christian nation.

http://rwatts.cdyn.com/download/Evans%201909-1910%20Catalog/39.pdf

Quote: EvenBob

And these are the 'good old days', when we were such a moral Christian nation.

We were?

Could have fooled me.

Sure, we paid lip service, but inside our heart of hearts: blackness.

It's how we roll.

Quote: MrV

We were?

Could have fooled me.

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In 1910 you could buy heroin or cocaine or anything
you wanted at your local druggist, addiction was
rampant. A food processor could have a filthy facility
and there was nobody to stop him. Why not loaded
dice and marked cards, it fit in with the times.