Locals have dwindled

[jjgold]

Maybe it’s just the West Coast thing not that easy to find nor do I think there’s a lot of gamblers out here

Reno broken down hipsters mainly

Cowboy City

 

[BobbyFK]

JJ become a bookie

 

[jamesy2422]

i would like to find a local who lets me bet with cash i deposit. hard to find.

 

[Tanko]

JJ, Locals are the old guys (60+) that sit in the back of the bar. You can see them almost every day if you go there. There aren't any young ones anymore. As the current batch of locals die off, there won't be any more. Kind of like these......

 

[flyingillini]

Maybe it’s just the West Coast thing not that easy to find nor do I think there’s a lot of gamblers out here

Reno broken down hipsters mainly

Cowboy City

JJ always pays, his word is as good as gold!

 

[jjgold]

JJ become a bookie

No, because nobody pays anymore and there’s not a damn thing you could do about it

 

[djefferis]

JJ, Locals are the old guys (60+) that sit in the back of the bar. You can see them almost every day if you go there. There aren't any young ones anymore. As the current batch of locals die off, there won't be any more. Kind of like these......

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Exactly - dying breed.

First - not too many of those guys sitting in bars these days. Life expectancy of those types is usually late 50s max - they LOOKED late 60s in their 40s. Most died out with a few old timers still kicking in retirement homes probably.

Guys who did business completely off the line published in the newspaper and over the phone/in person. You called the pay phone at the bar - told the bartender what you wanted and he relayed the message for you.

I’ve heard all the stories from back in the day - guys having a dozen lines installed into their basement on the side by a telephone lineman with a gambling debt to pay off - hiring neighborhood kids to man the phones and take bets. Collection Tuesdays and driving around in their Lincoln with a couple of guys they pulled off the street to make it look like he had some muscle.

Good times - but those days are gone. They would be destroyed by any bettor pounding line moves these days.

 

[BigJay]

Exactly - dying breed.

First - not too many of those guys sitting in bars these days. Life expectancy of those types is usually late 50s max - they LOOKED late 60s in their 40s. Most died out with a few old timers still kicking in retirement homes probably.

Guys who did business completely off the line published in the newspaper and over the phone/in person. You called the pay phone at the bar - told the bartender what you wanted and he relayed the message for you.

I’ve heard all the stories from back in the day - guys having a dozen lines installed into their basement on the side by a telephone lineman with a gambling debt to pay off - hiring neighborhood kids to man the phones and take bets. Collection Tuesdays and driving around in their Lincoln with a couple of guys they pulled off the street to make it look like he had some muscle.

Good times - but those days are gone. They would be destroyed by any bettor pounding line moves these days.

Jeffery always waxing poetic

 

[jamesy2422]

there was a charm to the old school ways of betting (aside from the dangers which is why i never did it personally). i would be chasing losses and losing way too much.

 

[djefferis]

Jeffery always waxing poetic

I miss the days of old men walking into the store with lunch bags wrapped around cash - what can o say.

Go back and tell those guys from 1985 they will be replaced by crypto coins in 40 years as the preferred payment processors.

 

[jjgold]

All computerized book making now