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It was interesting to watch and observe the people at the races and to photograph them, candidly, of course. This was something that I had familiarity with from my Baltimore days in the 1960s.

Next, I went outside to watch the horse races. Anyway, the whole scene made me nervous and anxious, and I didn’t feel totally comfortable wandering around there and the few photos that I did take were taken surreptitiously and under subterfuge, since I feared that security guards would see what I was doing and confiscate my phone and/or reject me from the facility and its premises. It was amazing – there were hundreds and hundreds of people there playing their machines and feeding the machines with the minimum of $20 bills – and as Captain Renault said to Richard (Rick) Blaine in his Cafe Americain “I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here,” and that’s from the movie, Casablanca, of 1942. I was certainly intrigued and fascinated by what I saw. It was an amazing and different experience for me – something that I hadn’t experienced. At every turn and in every corner and in every separate room, there were more and more and more of the same, and not even different.

It seems to go on forever and ever and ever in every corner and certainly in every nook and cranny. I parked and entered, and was astounded by the lights and noises and the tremendous abundance of slot machines and gambling stations. Anyway, I found this place as the only action place at 7 PM in the town. However, that’s Charleston and this is Charles Town - that’s embarrassing for the self-styled geography whiz that I consider myself to be. After finishing my long day of hiking at the fantastic Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (read my review), I decided to visit what I thought was the nearby capital city of West Virginia. PROS * Large casino area * Stunning number of many hundreds of individual machines and dozens of tables * Noisy and destabilizing * Wide wide carpeted brightly lit area * Many many side areas * Cafeteria food * Interesting horse racing (and betting) * See, watch, observe meet, and interact with real local people, and not only other tourists or those involved in service in the tourist industry * Free multi level parking garage CONS * Loud bright and noisy- quite a surprise and distress to the eyes and ears “I VISITED THIS PLACE”… … as a very, very pleasant surprise for me, because I hadn’t planned on coming here – I didn’t even know that the place existed.

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