The Little Bingo Hall

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Moved back to NY from Florida. 🤓 2025
20 years ago, the Oneida Nation Indians bought a plot of land, just off the NYS Truway, and built a bingo hall with a few video slot machines. This pictures shows their 20th anniversary party. Three hotels, several restaurants, hundreds of slots, table games and hi roller poker.

The TS stands for Turning Stone Casino, not tough s... From what I understand, most states now have a casino or two. Do any of you folks have one near you?
 

Casinos are few and far between but slot machines are everywhere in OZ. There would only be a handful of social or sporting clubs who don't have a roomful of them, and they're even allowed in pubs. Been to a couple of Casinos but they're not my scene at all, I'm just not a glitz 'n ritz person.

Nice to see they've put their money to good and profitable purpose though, the Kooris near here got a massive grant and all we got shown for it was a tourist trap shop where they sell 'bush tucker' ingredients and boomerangs probably made in Taiwan.
 

There's a big casino complex about two hours from me. When I lived in Florida, I took a cruise to nowhere once, a gambling cruise that was essentially free. Just did it once, and spent most of the time sitting on the deck enjoying the scenery.
 
Great photo Pappy, some party! :cool: There are casinos here in Colorado, but I don't visit any...not a gambler except for the occasional lottery ticket.
 
That is truly a spectacular scene, and it sounds like they have really flourished with the casino as well. I am not a gambler, and have no idea if there are any here in Alabama, but when I lived in Idaho, the Indians there had big casinos and the largest hotel/restaurant in town.
Since they have different regulations than the rest of the population, I think that can pretty much have a casino wherever they choose to, and the money is split up for the benefit of the tribe.
 
We have a casino here about a 10-minute drive from my place. Luckily I'm not a gambler.

Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs

2,300 slots, table games, poker, and of course horse racing. Owned by the same folks who own the casinos in Connecticut and Massachusetts.


From what I've observed since they started up here the taxes they pay are appreciated by all the surrounding townships (who get a nice chunk of change every year) and the increase in part-time jobs is a plus, but the traffic and the increased crime partially offsets those gains.

Overall I think it's a good thing, but the locals are hard-core old-school types and didn't want it here. Now the same people are crying that they didn't get a big enough cut of the annual "gift" ... :(
 
Pappy said:
Hey Phil, went just up the road to Foxwoods one time. I believe they are owned also by an Indian Tribe. We would have gone to Mohegan Sun but at the time they didn't have a hotel.
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Oh, yeah, Foxwoods is supposed to be big on bingo these days. They're up in Connecticut if I'm not mistaken.
 
We've recently had a political dust up over opening a second Casino in Sydney. The one milking the average punter got all hurt and offended that they would get some competition. But it's all turned out okay. The new one is just for the high rollers and 'whales' and it seems you'll have to have a lazy mill in your back pocket to even get in there. I heard mentioned that minimum bets would be 75 grand!
Gee, isn't it nice to know that there's only one of them drawing in the 'poor'?

I can't see the reason for the kerfuffle really, gamblers can throw their money over betting shop counters or drop it into slot machines that are seldom more than a few yards walk away in the local pub anyway. If they're determined to gamble they'll bet on two flies crawling up a wall, no regulations are going to stop that behaviour.
 

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