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Inventory for MSA SC 5796-36

MSA SC 5796-36 contains 19 unit(s). Showing results 1 to 15.

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MSA SC 5796-36-1 Dates MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description Postcard depicting the "Starlight Pavilion and Pier, Fairview Beach, Va., near Fredericksburg." Calvert Marine Museum P-8263

MSA SC 5796-36-2 Dates1956 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description Aerial view of Fairview Beach, VA with pier and pavilion under construction. Calvert Marine Museum P-8264

MSA SC 5796-36-3 Dates1959 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description People playing slot machines at Fairview Beach, VA in 1959. Calvert Marine Museum P-8265

MSA SC 5796-36-4 Dates1963 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description "Little Reno" gambling pier at Colonial Beach, VA in 1963. Gambling barge "Pleasure Island" is anchored in background, launch underway at right. Calvert Marine Museum P-8266

MSA SC 5796-36-5 Dates1960 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description Gambling piers, ice cream shop, and other businesses at Colonial Beach, VA. Calvert Marine Museum P-8267

MSA SC 5796-36-6 Dates1958 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description Stemboat "Freestone" (ex-"Tolchester" #207201) at Freestone Point, VA, starboard view. Calvert Marine Museum P-8268

MSA SC 5796-36-7 Dates MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description Slot machine, front and right side. Calvert Marine Museum P-8269

MSA SC 5796-36-8 Dates MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description Woman playing one of a row of slot machines. Calvert Marine Museum P-8270

MSA SC 5796-36-9 Dates1954 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description Colonial Beach, VA as seen from water in 1954. Gambling pier is at right. Calvert Marine Museum P-8430

MSA SC 5796-36-10 Dates1954 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description Beach and gambling pier at Colonial Beach, VA in 1954. Calvert Marine Museum P-8431

MSA SC 5796-36-11 Dates1954 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description Beach and gambling pier at Colonial Beach, VA in 1954. Man seated in foreground. Calvert Marine Museum P-8432

MSA SC 5796-36-12 Dates1957 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description "Slot machine fever: Silver flows like water into some of the 325 'one-armed bandits' in the Little Reno casino, one of the legal gambling dens at Colonial Beach." Image taken from: Kobler, John. "Las Vegas on the Potomac: Colonial Beach, Va." Saturday Evening Post, Vol 230,no. 10, Sept. 7, 1957, p. 38.

MSA SC 5796-36-13 Dates1957 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description "Counting the loot: Operators feed 80-pound bucketfuls of coins into a tallying machine before stuffing metal into sacks. The casino consumes change by the ton." Image taken from: Kobler, John. "Las Vegas on the Potomac: Colonial Beach, Va." Saturday Evening Post, Vol 230,no. 10, Sept. 7, 1957, p. 38.

MSA SC 5796-36-14 Dates1957 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description "Casino owner Del Conner at the doorway of the 'Champagne Cruiser,' which flies in customers." Image taken from: Kobler, John. "Las Vegas on the Potomac: Colonial Beach, Va." Saturday Evening Post, Vol 230,no. 10, Sept. 7, 1957, p. 39.

MSA SC 5796-36-15 Dates1957 MediumOriginal StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location. Description "The water line is the frontier. Gambling is legal on the piers and on a boat that now plies the Potomac, which belongs to Maryland. Ashore, Virginia's laws apply." Image taken from: Kobler, John. "Las Vegas on the Potomac: Colonial Beach, Va." Saturday Evening Post, Vol 230,no. 10, Sept. 7, 1957, p. 39.

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