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According to multiple news stories from July 16-19, 2013 the Catawba Nation will lease and operate again in the old Bi-Lo building on Cherry Road.
I read about that in the newspaper. I guess the Catawba Tribe gave up on the casino idea on the reservation. I don't see why they can't build a casino on the reservation. Other tribes have casinos and make money for their people.
Clover has a bingo place. I have never played bingo so I don't know what you mean sheets and blotters.
The two already mentioned use paper sheets and you have to buy ink makers to blot out the numbers as they are called. If you make a mistake and blot out #2 when you meant #3, well your game sheet may be voided.
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There used to be a union hall (it is still there but no bingo games each week) on Mt. Gallant near Cherry and they had bingo cards like you see in the first photo. There was a big table and hundreds of cards and people would look them over to try to locate commonly called numbers, etc. I guess the paper and markers are a money maker.
Last edited by howard555; 08-01-2013 at 01:32 PM..
There used to be a union hall (it is still there but no bingo games each week) on Mt. Gallant near Cherry and they had bingo cards like you see in the first photo. There was a big table and hundreds of cards and people would look them over to try to locate commonly called numbers, etc. I guess the paper and markers are a money maker.
That was the Celanese Union Hall my mother-in-law use to play there. The Elks Club on Main St had bingo once a week long ago.
Front page of the local paper says the City or residents or someone does not want the Catawba's to re-open.
Why?
Are they tax exempt or something on their sales?
Front page of the local paper says the City or residents or someone does not want the Catawba's to re-open.
Why?
Are they tax exempt or something on their sales?
That is not bingo, bingo is permitted in SC.
The article in the paper is about SC and York County being against a casino on the reservation.
So the Catawba Tribe is attempting to receive permission to build a casino in North Carolina. They are looking at I-85 Cleveland County near Kings Mountain. I doubt NC will grant gambling rights to an out-off-state tribe. But who knows!!
After many, many years (1980) in all the courts up to the US Supreme Court, SC finally reached an agreement with the Catawba Tribe. The tribe opted for the high stakes bingo games on Cherry Road, which they eventually closed. At that time they could have gone with a casino but Gilbert Blue was chief then and didn't want the gambling.
In addition they received $50 million dollars over a five year period. The tribe relinquished claims/law suits against federal, state & local governments and local landowners. They settled for 3600 acres instead of the 144,000 acres when the lawsuit/claim was first filed.
They tried high stakes bingo at the beach and ended up closing that one too. When the agreement was finalized the big name casino reps visited the tribal council in hopes of building a casino on the reservation. That will not happen now, so I guess we will see high stakes bingo back on Cherry Road ... people can drop in to one of the mega pay-day cash loan places on Cherry Road and borrow money to play bingo.
The article in the paper is about SC and York County being against a casino on the reservation.
I only saw the headline and did not get to read the article, as the paper was in a paper machine near the post office. I did not think a story about the Catawba's and casino in NC would have been in our paper on the front page.
So, it seems they are going to lease the old Bi-Lo building to at least bring their bingo back.
Not only was the news in the Herald of the tribe attempting to open a casino in North Carolina but it was in the Observer and on TV news too.
They have to do something to generate income for the tribe. SC settled the claim with the tribe in 1993 and the $50 million is probably long gone by now. Across the US, 242 tribes own and operate casinos. In 2012 these casinos generated revenues of $27.9 billion for their tribes.
In the 1993 Settlement Act the state agreed upon two high stakes bingo locations.
SECTION 27-16-110 of the Settlement Act defines the rules:
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Catawba Nation returning.
