The Three-Foot Loophole: A Clever Workaround for Tacoma's Gambling Ban
Tacoma's Olympic Club skirts police edicts by raising the floor three feet to technically evade gambling restrictions.
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The Olympic Club has gotten around the edict against gambling on the first floor by building a platform three feet high in the theater, and the games will be run there. So far, poker tables, roulette, crap, and black-jack comprise the outfit. It is contended that the three-foot platform fills all the requirements of the order from the police department.
“It is contended that the three-foot platform fills all the requirements of the order from the police department.”
This reflects the endless cat-and-mouse game between local regulators and nightlife operators, a dynamic still visible in modern municipal struggles over zoning and license compliance.
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