Inventory for MSA SC 5796-36



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MSA SC 5796-36-1
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Postcard depicting the "Starlight Pavilion and Pier, Fairview Beach, Va., near Fredericksburg." Calvert Marine Museum P-8263


MSA SC 5796-36-2
Dates1956
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Aerial view of Fairview Beach, VA with pier and pavilion under construction. Calvert Marine Museum P-8264


MSA SC 5796-36-3
Dates1959
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People playing slot machines at Fairview Beach, VA in 1959. Calvert Marine Museum P-8265


MSA SC 5796-36-4
Dates1963
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"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
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Gambling piers, ice cream shop, and other businesses at Colonial Beach, VA. Calvert Marine Museum P-8267


MSA SC 5796-36-6
Dates1958
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Stemboat "Freestone" (ex-"Tolchester" #207201) at Freestone Point, VA, starboard view. Calvert Marine Museum P-8268


MSA SC 5796-36-7
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Slot machine, front and right side. Calvert Marine Museum P-8269


MSA SC 5796-36-8
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Woman playing one of a row of slot machines. Calvert Marine Museum P-8270


MSA SC 5796-36-9
Dates1954
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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
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Beach and gambling pier at Colonial Beach, VA in 1954. Calvert Marine Museum P-8431


MSA SC 5796-36-11
Dates1954
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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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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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