Word: playtorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cincinnati, gambling houses and brothels have often caused trouble, so newsmen are ever on the alert for stories there. One night last summer, the Louisville Courier-Journal got a solid telephone tip about Newport, and sent Photographer George Bailey hustling to the scene. The tip: Glenn Schmidt's Playtorium, a plush dining-drinking-gambling-bowling club, was about to be raided. The leader of the raid was Newport's Detective Jack Thiem, who had hired 16 private detectives in Louisville, 106 miles from Newport, to help...
When Photographer Bailey arrived on the scene, he got more than he expected. Inside the Playtorium the raiding party not only found such gambling equipment as crap tables and bingo games; they also encountered Newport's Police Chief George Gugel, and three detectives who had just dropped in "for a soft drink." Photographer Bailey snapped pictures, including one of Chief Gugel with Playtorium Proprietor Schmidt. But Bailey's picture-taking came to an abrupt...
...civil rights. Another grand jury indicted Gugel for "nonfeasance of duty," i.e., failing to suppress gambling and prostitution. The same jury also indicted Detective Thiem, the raider, on charges of breaking the law himself by having an interest in a brothel, and said he staged the raid on the Playtorium to retaliate for earlier raids on houses he was protecting...
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