![]() In 1930, he and his wife Mary, moved to Hawaii for 5 years, a detail that was to become crucial many years later. In order to support his impoverished family, teenage Sam assisted in the carney boardwalks which led to working on gaming ships that ferried gamblers off the land to the grey waters, where he became an expert in the game of bingo. Going Westīorn in Oklahoma, Sam’s widowed mother moved the family to California when he was a child. Other more celebrated names may have dominated the narrative for decades, but the evolution of gaming in Las Vegas and proliferation across North America owes significantly to Sam and Bill Boyd, the father and son team that developed the business model for American casinos. That a 79-year-old Boyd would be an inductee in 1991 after founding a successful casino company which operated thousands of rooms, would be the stuff of dreams. The idea that there would even be such a thing as “The Gaming Hall of Fame” in 1928, when an 18-year-old Sam Boyd was running bingo games on a gambling ship off the Californian coast, was fanciful. ![]()
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