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...Hollywood, Fla., just north of Miami, 1,200 people crowd each evening into a fancy, $900,000 bingo hall. Its owners pamper the players with valet parking, waitresses and armed escorts to their cars after the games. Small wonder: the nightly super jackpot can run as high as $19,000. Top prizes at other Florida bingo games are limited...
...Hollywood bingo emporium is the latest revenge of Florida's Seminoles on the whites, who drove the Indians' ancestors into the Everglades in the early 19th century. Until recently, the 397 Seminoles on the 480-acre Hollywood reservation survived by raising cattle, making dolls and baskets, and wrestling alligators to entertain tourists...
...learned that court rulings over the years exempted them from many state civil laws. In 1976 the Seminoles began selling tax-free cigarettes, which now net the tribe about $1.6 million a year. Last fall the Indians went into partnership with non-Seminole Eugene ("Butch") Weisman and opened the bingo emporium. It was an instant success. Chartered buses bring players from as far away as Tampa. Nearby condominiums often reserve tables. The average player spends about $35 a night, which makes the profits considerable. Weisman, who manages the operation, gets 45% of the earnings; the rest goes to the tribe...
...suspect, everyone else born in 1960 or 1961--can remember watching the draft lotteries of the late 60s and early 70s--Bingo games of life and death--on television. I always looked at where my birthday fell in the lottery, thankful that no matter how low the number, I would never have to go and hopeful that somehow the same would be true when I reached draft...
Florida--where are you hiding your young people? Are they all visiting their grandparents for the break? Are they calling out the bingo numbers at night while their grandparents sit blushing in the audience? Or are they experiencing other forms of humiliation for the price...