While New Orleans had been the gambling capital of America forty years earlier, San Francisco replaced it as the main site for gambling and casinos due to the free flowing gold of the California gold rush.
Wakati New Orleans ilikuwa mji mkuu wa kamari wa miaka arobaini Amerika ya awali, San Francisco badala yake kama tovuti ya kuu ya kamari na kasinon kutokana na dhahabu ya bure inapita ya kukimbilia ya dhahabu California.