Gus Mancuso (Ronald Bernard Mancuso), a talented impresario, was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania in 1933. Gus grew up in Hastings, Pennsylvania as the youngest of nine children. His father, an immigrant from Italy, Joseph Mancuso, owned multiple businesses and his mother, Josephine Ceranni toiled as a stay at home mother. Despite his father’s businesses, the family struggled financially. By the eighth grade Gus moved to Rochester, New York, where his mother joined him, after his parents separated.
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Teddy Jane Binion at right. Standing by a display depicting cowboy and cowgirl dolls in front of the $1,000,000 Binion's Horseshoe. (n.d.)
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Horseshoe Casino interior. (no date)
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Guests sit in the Horseshoe Club in rows and play Bingo together. Some of the clearly-visible faces of participants have a golden/brown circle on top of them.
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