Gambling activities then shifted to independently owned hotels and supper clubs that housed casinos. Brown HotelĬasinos were operating on the French Lick and West Baden Springs Hotel properties until 1906, when authorities raided and closed them. This was *the* place to be, especially with not-so-secret underground gambling operations as the major draw at many of these smaller hotels. West Baden Springs Hotel.Ĭertainly seems like enough hotel for two tiny towns, right?īelieve it or not, there was a time when these two were just the start.įrench Lick and West Baden were once home to nearly two dozen additional hotels and boarding houses over the first three decades of the 1900s.
