UID:
almafu_9959677787002883
Format:
1 online resource (410 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06520-7
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9786613065209
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0-8223-9166-X
Series Statement:
American encounters/global interactions
Content:
The story of the rise and fall of the gambling industry in Tijuana during the Jazz Age opens into a history of the development of that area and Southern California.
Note:
Description based on print version record
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The mob strikes the border barons -- Mobs -- Playground of the hemisphere -- Fortuitous breaks -- Border Babylon -- King of border vice -- "They're off!" -- Prohibition's bounty -- The new wave -- Agua Caliente in gestation -- Building Camelot -- Captain Jerry's day -- "Silent" Marty's oration -- Veracity -- Fixes -- Sentencing and censoring -- Hollywood's playground -- "Place your bets!" -- Get the barons! -- Fools and thieves -- A dead cock in the pit -- What ever happened to? -- Ghosts.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-4702-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-4691-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822391661
