Great interview with sportsbetting legend Lem Banker from a few months ago conducted by John L. Smith of the LV Review-Journal. Maybe the best I've ever heard with him chronicling more than 50 years of booking, betting, the mob and of course Vegas history.
Great interview with sportsbetting legend Lem Banker from a few months ago conducted by John L. Smith of the LV Review-Journal. Maybe the best I've ever heard with him chronicling more than 50 years of booking, betting, the mob and of course Vegas history.
I took a group to eat at the palm in CP years ago. One of the girls asked who all the people on the walls were. I told her that each palm has LOCAL celebrities. So in DC they have politicians and judges on the walls, NY has broadway types and athletes, etc etc.
Then I looked on the wall and the first face I saw was lem so I said to her see that picture that is lem banker. A long time vegas gambler who is very smart and has a big rep in vegas, but elsewhere in the country is a complete unknown. We all realized at almost the same time 3 feet below the picture lem was eating his dinner.
We got a good laugh at that.
I took a group to eat at the palm in CP years ago. One of the girls asked who all the people on the walls were. I told her that each palm has LOCAL celebrities. So in DC they have politicians and judges on the walls, NY has broadway types and athletes, etc etc.
Then I looked on the wall and the first face I saw was lem so I said to her see that picture that is lem banker. A long time vegas gambler who is very smart and has a big rep in vegas, but elsewhere in the country is a complete unknown. We all realized at almost the same time 3 feet below the picture lem was eating his dinner.
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