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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1980
Las Vegas, Jersey style
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Free lunches, dollars pack little old ladies in casinos
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — There
are so many little old ladies at the
casinos you’d think bingo — not
craps — was the attraction.
“I’ll bet $5,” announced a sub
urban-looking matron as she and a
companion emerged from their char
ter bus, complementary lunch tick
et, free Susan B. Anthony dollars and
salt water taffy in hand. “If I win, I’ll
stretch it to $10.”
“I once saw a man put down a $10
bill — and it was gone just like that, ”
said her more sophisticated friend.
“Oh my — well that’s not really
very wise,” said the first woman,
stunned into silent contemplation.
Bus 32693 was playing it cool,
being, after all, New Yorkers who
had never met each other until they
plunked down $15 each for the trip,
taffy, buffet and three silver dollars.
“You want to have fun, go to a
movie,” said Leo, who wore a green
checked suit and an American flag on
his lapel. “This is serious business.”
“Roulette wheel here I come,”
yelled his girlfriend, Gerri, breaking
the mood.
Last year 12,000 charter buses rol
led up to Atlantic City’s three shiny
new casinos, giving the East Coast’s
clubwomen, retired elderly, penny-
Last year 12,000 charter buses
rolled up to Atlantic City’s three
shiny new casinos, giving the
East Coast’s clubwomen, retired
elderly, pennywise vacationers
and a smattering of hopeful un
employeds their crack at the
only legal slot machines and
roulette wheels east of Las
Vegas.
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a summer job:
800-33M000
wise vacationers and a smattering of
hopeful unemployeds their crack at
the only legal slot machines and
roulette wheels east of Las Vegas.
On 32693, Pete, who is young and
dreamy and unemployed, fingered
his $50 stake and told his seatmate
Martha, a retired bookkeeper, about
his missed opportunities — lottery
numbers that came in just one digit
off, a friend who was hit by a bus and
collected $125,000.
“I could have been a bookkeeper, ”
he connided. “I was good at that in
school. I was so good I didn’t even
have to take the exam. I should have
kept at that.”
Phyllis, who visits the casinos
often, warned her fellow passengers
about the Crush at the $2 blackjack
tables. “You feel like you’re drinking
coffee at a Chock Full O’ Nuts,” she
sniffed.
Inside the Boardwalk Regency,
however, the real jam was not at
blackjack but the fruitbowl at the
free buffet.
“Just delicious, girls,” called out a
chunky matron in slacks and fur coat
to dozens of similarly dressed
women waiting in line for their
turns.
“These ladies eat so much,” won
dered an elderly Hungarian doctor
as he watched the crowd pile their
plates with pseudobeef stroganoff.
At the next table, two elderly women
with crooked wigs and crooked lip
stick carefully piled up surplus pats
of butter.
“We hate to waste,” said one as
her sister nodded sagely.
The free buffet is an investment
for the Boardwalk Regency, which
knows that most of the people who
are congratulating themselves on
their great bargain at noon will have
lost far more than its price by 5 p.m.
“Nothing is really free,” says
Gwen Groves, who handles the char
ter buses for the casino.
Indeed, by the time bus 32693 had
been parked for 15 minutes, Martha
had lost $40 and exited for “a long
walk.”
“It isn’t bad today,” said a man
named Eddie at the craps table. “But
I’ve been here on weekends, and you
see them sitting in the lobby after an
hour, all their money gone and just
waiting for the buses to come back
and get ’em.”
Even the three Susan B. Anthony
silver dollars which the Regency dis
tributes to each of its charter bus
guests are the product of an ulterior
motive.
The average charter bus customer
is a slot machine freak, frightened by
the more complex machinations at
blackjack and roulette. “But the bus
people won’t play the dollar
machines,” said Groves. The “Susie
Bs” are an attempt to wean them
from the lines in front of the nickle
machines, and on to more serious
gambling.
Groves, however, has her doubts
about the free candy. “It’s a fallacy to
give a bunch of senior citizens salt
water taffy,” she mused. “Think of
the flying dentures.”
It is still possible for a charter bus
refugee to while away the hours
sightseeing along the Boardwalk,
although the general impression,
these days, is that anyone standing
too long in one place would be
moved to make way for another
casino.
“Everything must go,” announce
all the fudge stands and salt water
taffy boths and tacky souvenir stores
where “Squirt ’em Toilets” and
cedarwood copies of the Lord’s
Prayer have been marked down to
prepare for the blackjack tables and
roulette wheels of the future.
Back at the casino, the Hungarian
doctor had invested enough in the
It is still possible for a charter
bus refugee to while away the
hours sightseeing along the
Boardwalk, although the gener
al impression, these days, is that
anyone standing too long in one
place would be moved to make
way for another casino.
blackjack table to compensate the
Boardwalk Regent for all of bus
32693’s buffets, taffy and silver dol
lars.
When the bus retrieved its riders
at six o’clock, it appeared that 32693
had donated more than its share to
helping the Regency break its Feb
ruary record of $13.8 million in win
nings. The bus’s only real winner was
Ramon, a silver importer who ran
into an unexpected opportunity to do
some business on the Boardwalk and
never got to the casinos at all.
“We got wiped out,” said Leo,
who had vowed earlier that he would
be “happy whether I have a penny or
a million.”
“Sure, I’m in a good mood,” he
added sullenly.
“If he says he’s in a good mood,
he’s in a good mood,” snapped Geri.
Pete lost his $50 stake, plus
another $30 he borrowed from his
uncle.
“If my father asks — I just lost $30,
okay?” he pleaded.
The bus took off and Leo began a
high-decible complaint about Presi
dent Carter’s foreign policy. "You
think Nixon would have let them get
away with that stuff?” he asked no
one in particular.
Pete sat wondering whether he
would have won his money back if
there’d been a little more time.
“You know,” he said to Martha. “1
really was awfully good at book
keeping. ”
CB craze big, illegal in U. K.
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LONDON — Use a citizen’s band
radio in Britain and you’re in the
soup with “scuffers” or “the custard”
— as “Smoky bears” are called.
from the U.S., are smuggled into
Britain each week, even though the
estimated 40,000 CB users in the
United Kingdom are breaking the
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wane in the United States, but in
Britain it is hot, and illegal.
In America CB radio sales have
fallen by two-thirds in the past four
years. But hundreds of sets, mostly
“The basic reasons lie in the
psychology of government in this
country,” says James Bryant, head of
the Citizens’ Band Association.
“We’ve got a permanent civil ser
vice that believes people should be
kept under control. Giving them
two-way radio is not a way for them
to keep people under their thumb. ”
With that kind of attitude it’s no
surprise that British CB jargon terms
the Home Office, responsible in Bri
tain both for radio waves and law
enforcement, “the Meanies.”
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that there are frequencies available
for CB users,” Bryant said. “Nothing
has been done yet because there are
hidden but influential bureaucrats
who don’t want to see CB legalized. ”
There is, however, a 20-member
parliamentary committee which is
pressing for CB legalization. Its sec
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Butcher, said he became interested
after talking to his American cousins
who use CBs to help round up cattle.
“Since May (when the Conserva
tive Party came to power) there’s
been a more positive attitude from
the Home Office,” Butcher said.
But he said the government fears a
new bureaucracy may be needed to
regulate CB use, and it is hamstrung
by the need to cut government
spending.
Bryan said his organization has the
financial backing to set itself up as an
independent administrative body.
British CB advocates cite standard
arguments about CB’s ability to help
save lives in road accidents and natu
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