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Roulette Wheel

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 9 older comments, and then…
  • derangedlemur said:
    It certainly looks like a roulette wheel.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The croupier looks creepier ...
  • John Spooner said:
    An account of a court case at Down Assizes (Freeman's , Wednesday, March 11, 1840) centres around a "fraudulently constructed" roulette table at Downpatrick races, by means of which James Perkins cheated several people "of divers sums of money". Here's a snippet including a description of the dodgy roulette wheel. So roulette at a racecourse wasn't unheard of. BTW later in the account , after a witness was asked if he had played in the tent A pause ensued, which was sufficiently significant to cause the court to be convulsed with laughter, which was joined by the learned judge himself The defence counsel argued that a tent was not a house, so it wasn't covered by legislation concerning gaming houses. The judge sentenced Perkins to 3 months imprisonment and £100 fine, but the sentence was suspended pending a decision from the Court of Queen's Bench.
  • John Spooner said:
    And in an account of "The Card-Cheating Case at Brighton" (Freeman's Monday, July 26, 1852) a witness says he had played roulette at races before this, and generally lost; he had never heard of anybody that won (a laugh). This suggests that roulette wheels at races (a) were commonplace and (b) fixed
  • John Spooner said:
    ... and in 1862 The plaintiff , on examination, stated that he kept a roulette table at races, and also used "bones" (dice) at races; was last convicted of gambling at Limerick; gave up going to races September last; he went to races with a roulette table for the purpose of opposing parties who had robbed him of £600 ... The jury found for the plaintiff one farthing damages

[1st Game - 1912 World Series (baseball)] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • DruryGirl said:
    Wonder what they would have thought of "Tessy"

Phoenix Park Racecourse, Co. Dublin

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • Seán Ó Domhnaill said:
    Traffic seemed to be a problem even back then. Is that the Irish Metal Box factory at lower left? I used to pass it by on the bus when commuting from Blanchardstown in the late 90s.
  • DannyM8 said:
    Seán Ó Domhnaill Seán correct, I see on one of the old maps that it is the Ashtown Metal Box Co.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The ring of trees has survived and grown. Google Maps satellite 3D - www.google.com/maps/@53.376458,-6.3363974,310a,35y,177.56...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Name ALL those cars ...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    A poster reference to this racecourse was helpful in dating this one to after the opening of this course in 1902:
    Striding along Sackville Street