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May 21, 2013

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Fremont Street Experience

Mon, May 15, 1905 (midnight)

The Nevada legislature voted to lift the ban on gambling in 1931 and almost overnight, Fremont Street changed from a dusty railroad town’s tree-lined main street into a two-block, neon-lit gambling mecca.

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