Photo from the Library of Congress A famous photograph of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia sledgehammering slot machines was part of a
In Part I of this short series, The One-Armed Bandit: Slot Machines and Organized Crime in New York City, we
With more than 25,000 slot machines in NYC in the 1930’s placed in prosaic locations, the general populace was both knowingly and unknowingly touched by the mafia.