Special Report Staten Island Advance
Report on Gambling by Laura Bruno
The article was titled: For many, GAMBLING is a way of life
Take a bus, spend the day, play the slots
Islanders wager hundreds of millions of dollars annually
They trickle in, one or two at a time from the moment Bob Rubano unlocks the door to Going Places Travel at 9 a.m. Rubano, 64, slips behind the Atlantic City bus ticket counter and starts selling dreams.
Maybe someone will hit so big at the casinos, she'll come home in a limo. Probably not, but hey, as the state Lottery saying goes, you never know.
It's a September Tuesday, hotter than most of the summer, but it might be any day any time of the year. Every day, Staten Islanders - overwhelmingly senior citizens - board buses to New Jersey's ocean-front strip of casinos to gamble and get away.
and the article continues……
Take a bus, spend the day, play the slots
Islanders wager hundreds of millions of dollars annually
They trickle in, one or two at a time from the moment Bob Rubano unlocks the door to Going Places Travel at 9 a.m. Rubano, 64, slips behind the Atlantic City bus ticket counter and starts selling dreams.
Maybe someone will hit so big at the casinos, she'll come home in a limo. Probably not, but hey, as the state Lottery saying goes, you never know.
It's a September Tuesday, hotter than most of the summer, but it might be any day any time of the year. Every day, Staten Islanders - overwhelmingly senior citizens - board buses to New Jersey's ocean-front strip of casinos to gamble and get away.
and the article continues……
