George Whittell Jr. was born in San Francisco in 1881 into one of the wealthiest families in California. When George was 40 in 1921, he inherited $29 million. A gambler to his core, he invested it in the stock market and for the next eight years, he watched it nearly double. But also seeing his edge […]
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Greater Vegas—East Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is the crown jewel of western Nevada. High in the northern Sierra, 91 miles around, with its cutthroat trout, black bears, pristine beaches, and dense pine and fir forest, the lake is about as far from Las Vegas, figuratively, if not exactly geographically, as it’s possible to be and still be in the […]
Greater Vegas—How I Met Anthony Curtis
Anthony Curtis and I have been joined at the hip, editorially speaking, for 25 years. In all modesty, one reason that Huntington Press and the Las Vegas Advisor have survived, while most gambling periodicals and every single gambling book publishing company have not, is due to the enduring alliance between two dedicated Las Vegas content […]
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