Samstwitch
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Nice, a Happy Birthday topic!
Happy Birthday to you Sam!
It's a good thing Vegas was founded 1905 for you. It sounds like a fun job working as a dealer but, i'm sure it got boring after a while. I've been to vegas a few times stayed in a huge hotel near the pyramid think ( dont remember the name ) again happy birthday
Dealing cards was fun for awhile. (Of course, I never tired of dealing Baccarat! That was a very high-stakes game.) I was very good at dealing cards, considered a 'House Dealer' at Blackjack, but I hated taking people's money. I watched millionaires go broke. Gambling is very addictive. I learned very quickly never to gamble. In the end, I hated watching people lose their money.
I lived in Vegas during the glamour years! It's very different today. I dealt Baccarat on the big table back in the days when they used cash (not chips). I was the 3rd woman Baccarat Dealer in Vegas. They didn't like or allow women dealers on that game back then. I worked with all men...We wore tuxedos, ruffled white shirts, and bow ties. The women were jealous of me, the men disliked me because I was a woman, but the bosses loved me. But I won over the respect of the men, because I was very good at my job, very professional, and I pulled in more tips than anyone else (we shared tips). It was quite an experience. The last place I worked at was the Stardust. It was run by Mobsters (originally from Chicago and West Coast). When I started at the Stardust Casino, Frank Rosenthal had just survived the bomb explosion in his car.