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Towers Casino Raid
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| Location | 35 Ocean Road, Narragansett, Rhode Island |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 41°25′50″N71°27′22″W / 41.43056°N 71.45611°WCoordinates: 41°25′50″N71°27′22″W / 41.43056°N 71.45611°W |
| Built | 1883 |
| Architect | McKim, Mead, and White |
| Part of | Towers Historic District (ID82000021) |
| NRHP reference No. | 69000001[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | November 25, 1969 |
| Designated CP | August 18, 1982 |
The Towers, also known as the Twin Towers is a historic structure located at 35 Ocean Road in Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA. It is the only remnant of the Narragansett Pier Casino built in the 1880s. On November 25, 1969, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. King's Raid by Vespa Patreon Page of QX Games: Donation to QX Games: Strategy guide for clearin. Jul 13, 2018 A raid of a bar in Tower, Minnesota turned up a significant quantity of drugs and cash earlier this week. Louis County Sheriff's Office says the Lake Superior Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force carried out a search warrant at the Black Bear Cafe on Tuesday. They found 128 grams of meth and a 'large amount of cash.'
The Towers, also known as the Twin Towers is a historic structure located at 35 Ocean Road in Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA. It is the only remnant of the Narragansett Pier Casino built in the 1880s. On November 25, 1969, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
History (1883–1900)[edit]
The Narragansett Pier Casino was the center of social life in Narragansett during the late 19th century. The Narragansett Pier Casino rivaled the Newport Casino’s popularity as a resort for the social elite until it burned to the ground in 1900.
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Built between 1883–1886, the Narragansett Pier Casino was a fine example of Victorian Shingle style architecture (a variation of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States), designed by McKim, Mead, and White. The Casino offered a variety of sports, including boating, tennis, billiards, bowling, cards, and shooting, restaurants, stores, reading rooms, a theater, a bandstand, a ballroom, and a beautiful beach.[2]
The Narragansett Pier Casino thrived during the Gilded Age until it burned down during the Great Fire of September 12, 1900. That day, a fire broke out in the neighboring Rockingham Hotel. The flames spread quickly to the Casino, leaving only the granite walls of The Towers standing. More recently Hurricane Sandy has uncovered the foundation and part of the old boardwalk belonging to the old casino that had been buried by sand.
Recent history[edit]
Today, having survived a number of fires, nor'easters, and hurricanes, the Narragansett Towers are the only remaining part of the original Narragansett Pier Casino. One of the most recognizable landmarks in Narragansett, The Towers currently hosts weddings, dances, dinners, plays, and fashion shows. Its location, adjacent to Narragansett town beach, makes it an ideal venue for social events.
Narragansett towers attached to the casino, ca. 1885
Narragansett Casino ruins and lifeguard station, ca. 1905 after the fire destroyed most of the complex
In popular culture[edit]
The Towers can be seen in the background of the Rhode Island-based cartoon Family Guy, episode 'Peter's Got Woods,' when Peter rides by on a tandem bicycle with James Woods, both engaged in song.The Casino at the Narragansett Towers is also the location of the first reports of the now-popular seafood dish 'clams casino.' Many events take place on the land adjacent to The Towers, as well as the land next door, where the Casino once stood, that now includes a lawn and a courtyard with a fountain. Events such as The Blessing of the Fleet road race and festival, local art festivals, the Lighting of the town Christmas tree, and many beautiful weddings.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'National Register Information System'. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^'Our Past'. The Towers. Retrieved 2014-10-21.
External links[edit]
- Image gallery including high res view from the other side
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Narragansett Towers. |
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07:1223 May
Towers Casino, a cardroom in northeastern California, became the first live-poker room in that state to reopen following the largely US-wide shutdown due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, less than 36 hours after its reopening, Towers was raided by DOJ agents and ordered to reclose its facility on account of being in violation of California’s state-mandated guidelines.
Towers offers a tiny six-table room located roughly equidistant from Sacramento and Reno, NV, in Grass Valley, California. Grass Valley is in a conservative area of California, in the foothills of the Sierras roughly 50 miles due west of Lake Tahoe. The self-described “family owned” room had advertised its plans to reopen for several days, with its online site -- at towerscasino.com -- and its related Facebook and Instagram accounts including plenty of information about how the club planned to reopen.
Plans included opening up only three of the room’s six tables and requiring dealers and staff to wear masks, frequent sanitizing, and other precautions. Masks for players were not made mandatory, but appear to have been strongly recommended, if perhaps lax in enforcement. Late in the day on Monday, Towers published a handful of photos showing at least one table in action. (One of the photos, which Towers saw fit to publish, below, shows the player in Seat 8 pulling his mask well away from his face in order to drink a beer at the table, while several of the other players are seen wearing ill-fitted masks as well.)
Towers operated all day on Monday, May 18, then opened again on Tuesday, May 19, with the same conditions in place. The room remained open until at least late afternoon, when the DOJ agents arrived to conduct what was described as a “raid”:
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The agents, working for the California Department of Justice, served notice to Towers owner Jamey Robinson, who was present, that Towers’ reopening was in advance of the state’s broad reopening plans and that all commercial activity must cease. Ross also published a video from the scene showing Robinson in heated discussion with at least two of the DOJ agents.
“I was doing what I thought was legal and within the mandates that the county provided,” Robinson claimed to a local news outlet.
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A Sacramento Bee feature also recounted the raid and reclosing of the card room. None of the reports examine any political beliefs or influence connected to the situation. As with many US states -- and in particular in conservative regions of those states -- there has been increasing defiance by businesses ordered closed by statewide mandate. Despite being a liberal state overall, California has vast swaths of conservative areas and has been deeply split by protests against the ongoing closures ordered by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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