SCA Weekly News Review: August 2, 2020
This week Michael honors our icons, from Vegas Vickie to Regis Philbin.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Fremont Street
Nevada ended its frontier ways in 1909 when it made gambling illegal to project a sense of civilized modernity to the rest of the nation. Just 22 years later, it voted gambling back as an economic panacea to fight the Great Depression.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Chinn’s Cave House
George Chinn opened up – literally, with dynamite – Chinn’s Cave House at Brooklyn Bridge, Kentucky, in the 1920s.