That’s a fact, Jack!......................
In 1974 when I was there a couple times, it was a clean and an safe place.
Ironically, when the Mob ran it there was no street crime or very little. If a pick-pocket plied his trade there, he would be arrested, beat the hell out of him and dumped at the city limits. Message: Don’t come back.................
You want to know the facts about the story behind Casino, watch Coffee with Cullotta on Youtube.
I met Frank when i took his mob tour about ten years ago. Went back and took the tour another couple times and he wanted to hear about “Before Vegas, there was Hurley Wisconsin.” I told him the stories that were passed down about all the shenanigans that went on along the iron ranges on the WI and MI border.
“All aboard, Hayward, Hurley and Hell.”
They actually yelled that at the train stations.