Larry Flynts Lucky Lady is a cardroom located in Gardena, California. It replaced Normandie Casino.

The privately held casino’s finances are unclear, but it has been on a losing streak, observers say. The Normandie benefited from changes to L.A.' S gaming landscape in the early 1980s, when. . Normandie was the first casino to host the VIP Blackjack and Baccarat in Southern California. The casino featured in The X-Files, CSI, Malcolm in the Middle, Bluffy the Vampire Slayer, the Mentalist and Big Love on HBO. The casino hosts a Happy Hour from 4–7 p.m. Every day. The casino only hosts table games.

The Normandie Casino owners are on the hook for $2.4 million in fines and restitution for failing to report revenues and protect against money laundering. The World's Online Gaming Authority Since. The Hotel Normandie is between Beverly Hills and downtown Los Angeles a block from busy Wilshire Boulevard. Hollywood is less than four miles away and shopping on famous Rodeo Drive is 20 minutes. Popular venues include Dolby Theatre the Staples Center and the Greek Theatre each less than 15 minutes from the hotel.

In 1940, the Western Club opened on Western Avenue. Seven years later, the club was renamed the Normandie, and Russ Miller became owner. As the city of Gardena grew, so did the card clubs. Their license fees provided most of the money needed to operate the city.

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During the 1960s, Gardena boasted six luxurious card clubs. It was the only city in Los Angeles County to have legal gambling. The clubs flourished until 1980, when the Bell Club in the city of Bell, California, opened. Other cities soon followed suit, and the Gardena monopoly on card gaming came to an end.

In 1980, Russ Miller decided to move the Normandie Casino to a better location near the 110 Harbor Freeway at 1045 West Rosecrans Avenue. A new 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m²) casino was constructed, along with a Las Vegas-style entertainment venue billed as 'The Million Dollar Showroom'. A few years later, Seven-card stud and Texas hold-em were added to the already existing lineup of games, Five-card draw and Lowball.

In the mid-1980s, a tremendous Asian influence came with the introduction of the California games, including Blackjack, Pai Gow Poker, and Super 9, a game similar to Baccarat. The Normandie completely revamped its restaurant to accommodate a variety of Asian tastes: Mandarin, Vietnamese, Thai, and Korean, along with a standard Continental menu. The Normandie Casino opened its famous Red Dragon Room which featured high-limit Asian games. The Red Dragon Room, with its additional outdoor patio, continues to be one of the most popular Asian gaming rooms in Los Angeles today. The casino is also host to a luxurious V.I.P. Blackjack and Baccarat Room, a first in Southern California.

In 2016, several members of the Miller family had their gaming licenses revoked for anti-money laundering violations, and they were given 120 days to sell the casino.^[1]Larry Flynt, owner of the nearby Hustler Casino, won regulatory approval to purchase the Normandie in June 2016, with plans to rename it as Larry Flynt's Lucky Lady Casino.^[1]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abJason Song (July 7, 2016). 'Larry Flynt buys troubled Normandie Casino'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016-07-07.

Casino Normandy

External links[edit]

Casino En Normandie

• 'Normandie Casino Faces Audit'. The Los Angeles Times. 22 April 1988.
• CA DOJ BGC (29 June 2006). 'Normandie Casino Collection Fees'(PDF).

Coordinates: 33°54′09″N118°17′36″W / 33.90238°N 118.29329°W