La Bayou was a casino located on the Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Las Vegas , Nevada .
6-600: Northern Club may refer to: Northern Club (casino) , the first licensed casino in Nevada Northern Club (sports club) , a sports club in Crosby, Merseyside, England The Northern Club (Auckland) , a long-standing social club in Auckland, New Zealand. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
12-593: The Northern Club received the first Nevada gaming license. This was also the first gaming license issued to a woman, Mayme Stocker. By 1941, Bugsy Siegel and Dave Stearns were operating the club. In 1943, Turf Club replaced Northern Club. It ran only until 1945 when Wilbur Clark leased the club, renaming it the Monte Carlo Club . The Stockers continued to run the Northern Hotel on
18-580: The nearby Sassy Sally's casino and the Girls of Glitter Gulch strip club. Pastor decided in 1999 to move ahead with a renovation plan to transform the Coin Castle and Sassy Sally's into La Bayou and Mermaids, respectively, for a total of $ 6 million. In 2006, Pastor's son, Steve Burnstine, purchased the two casinos and the strip club. In April 2016, Derek and Greg Stevens, owners of the neighboring Golden Gate and Las Vegas Club casinos, purchased
24-519: The second floor until 1949. Monte Carlo Club would close in 1956, but remain in business as a bar until the 1960s. The original building was razed after 1965. A new building was erected, where a Denny's diner opened c. 1967–1968, followed by Sam's Roast Beef c. 1968–1969. By 1970, the site was operating as the Coin Castle . Herb Pastor was approved to take over the Coin Castle and the nearby Golden Goose casino in 1977. Pastor would later also own
30-714: The time of its closing, La Bayou was one of the few casinos in Las Vegas where slot machines paid out in coins, rather than vouchers. The business opened in 1913 as the Las Vegas Coffee House . In 1920 Mayme Stocker renamed it the Northern Club , offering liquor and gambling when both were illegal, during the Prohibition era . "Northern" was a well-known code word among railroad workers for an establishment serving alcohol. On March 20, 1931,
36-560: The title Northern Club . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northern_Club&oldid=714037249 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages La Bayou#Northern Club The casino had 3,200 square feet (300 m ) of gaming space with 125 slot machines . By
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