La Bayou is a casino

Casino

In modern English, a casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions...

 located on the Fremont Street Experience

Fremont Street Experience

The Fremont Street Experience is a pedestrian mall and attraction in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. The FSE occupies the westernmost 5 blocks of Fremont Street, including the area known for years as "Glitter Gulch," and portions of some other adjacent streets.The attraction is a barrel vault canopy,...

 in Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas, Nevada

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. The casino's only gaming options are 125 slot and video poker machines, there are no table games

Casino game

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 or sportsbook

Sportsbook

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s. La Bayou is also one of the few casinos in Las Vegas that still has slot machines that cash out in real money. (Most of the other Casinos in Las Vegas use a cashless voucher system which can be exchanged for the payout)

In 2007 Steve Burnstine purchased the nearby business of Mermaids Casino, La Bayou, and Girls of Glitter Gulch.

Northern Club

Opened as the Las Vegas Coffee House, Mayme Stocker renamed it the Northern Club in 1920 offering liquor and gaming while both were illegal.

On March 20, 1931, the Northern Club received the first Nevada gaming license. The license was issued by Clark County

Clark County, Nevada

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,375,765 people, 512,253 households, and 339,693 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA was 71.6% White , 9.1% Black, 5.7% Asian, 0.8% American Indian and 12.8% of other or mixed race. 22.0% were Hispanic of any race...

. This was also the first gaming license issued to a woman, Mayme Stocker.

Wilbur Clark leased the Northern Club casino in 1945 renaming it the Monte Carlo Club. The Stockers continued to run the Northern Hotel on the second floor.