Casinos in the Bahamas in the 1960s and 70s
How the resort casino model was born in the Bahamas: Huntington Hartford and the renaming of Hog Island to Paradise Island, the first major casinos in Freeport and Nassau, 60s junkets, the Commission of Inquiry (1967), the Lottery and Gaming Act (1969), and the creation of the Gaming Board, as well as the impact of the "million-dollar" tourist year (1968) and the oil crisis of the 70s.
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