Sitemap by name of property Sitemap by address of property Click here to request page update notifications Contact Over50Vegas. The Arizona Club Hotel was open from through sometime in the 's. When gambling was legalized it was licensed for slots and It was located in the " red light " district known as Block 16 so it's a safe bet there were plenty of games running prior to the change in the law. This article points out that bars in Las Vegas were left unmolested for two years while liquor sales in the country were outlawed.
Then eight establishments were raided simultaneously by eight prohibition officers. Big Four, Double " O " ,. McIntosh sells. Prohibition, known informally as the Volstead Act, came into force at midnight on January 17, It provided that " no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act. This failed social experiment was repealed December 5, On April 10, the Arizona Club was again having problems with " Mr.
Volstead's men " as it was shut down for selling illegal liquor. July 5, Las Vegas Age. The city attorney was instructed to proceed against A. James, proprietor of the Arizona Club, for the collection. The Arizona Club license was paid the day following the meeting and legal proceedings dropped. A few weeks after the articicle above appeared limiting gambling. This is a transcription of an article that was in too poor a condition to be readable. Nevada State Journal.
May 28, A suit seeking to force the city of Las Vegas to issue a gambling license was heard today in the state Supreme Court. The three men declare the city officials of Las Vegas, by refusing them a permit, is guilty of discrimination under the state law. Their application for the gambling license was filed with the city clerk April 7, and they assert that their application was in due form and that they possess the necessary qualifications prescribed by the laws of the state of Nevada and by the ordinances of the city for applicants for gaming licenses.
The Las Vegas officials, in attempting to regulate gambling, March 30 passed an emergency ordinance with which became effective April 3. Two days later and prior to the filing of petitioner's license, the city granted gambling licenses to the Boulder Club, Las Vegas Club, A. McCarter of the Exchange Club, and Stocker and Morgan at the Northern Club, and then adopted a resolution that no license would be granted in Las Vegas except of those places of business that had had gambling licenses during the previous quarter and that no further or new licenses would be considered until a zone Was established by them for the operation of gambling houses and the policy adopted by the board governing the issuances of new licenses.
