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most people don,t know this but the last legal place you could gamble in California was jackson, ca thy had legal gambling there until 1959 .thats when Governor jerry brown Sr closed it down , and everybody in town thought that after Governor browns stay in office was over that gambling would return to jackson, ca. because it was believed that the gambling would return so soon to jackson theres a legend that a large amount of the one armed bandits where berried in a place called Chinese grave yard road (this is the place where thy used to berrie the Chinese miners when thy died) so that on the day that gambling was made legal again thy could be quickly pulled out and put back in service as soon as possible. Ive talked to quite a few of the old timers and have had several tell me that it was true .most of them will also clam that most if not all where latter dug up and sent somewhere Else. i can nether conform or denies this legend but i have heard it on quite a few occasions from different sources. at diffrant times , on a side note it is sead that when a Chinese would die thy would place him in a big clay jar siting up right then thy would place a coin in his mouth ( this was payment for the ferrymen to take him to the outher side) then thy would place a large candle in with him light it and put some sort of cork on top of the jar .as the candle burned down it would use up all of the oxygen in the jar and it would cause a vacuum to pull the cork down tight. i also have no way to conform this legend but it a good story eather way
