Casino history lives in more than rulebooks. Cards, roulette wheels and slot...

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Casino history lives in more than rulebooks. Cards, roulette wheels and slot reels show how play changed and what visitors encountered. A look at San Francisco in 1895 brings the objects into focus, from printed cards to the mechanisms behind the spin.