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Before Vegas Became Vegas, Hot Springs Was America's Sin City. Now the Arkansas Spa Town Embraces Its Colorful and Seedy History
Museums, tours and restored landmarks now draw visitors as officials and historians preserve the town’s notorious gambling and mob era.
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The Independent (US)
The quaint Arkansas spa town where America’s most dangerous mobsters came to relax
Following in the footsteps of notorious gangsters like Al Capone, Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano and Bugsy Siegel, Annabel Grossman travels to the Ouachita Mountains to explore a world of gambling, bootlegging and vice in Hot Springs
Before Vegas Became Vegas, Hot Springs Was America's Sin City. Now the Arkansas Spa Town Embraces Its Colorful and Seedy History
A life-size statue of Al Capone greets downtown visitors, and you can stay in his hotel suite. The town where gangsters once vacationed with movie stars and athletes is still open for a getaway
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Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources lean Left
67% Left
L 67%
C 33%
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