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Originally Posted by Johnny V
I would rarely even visit one of those dumps. The payoff was less than the payoff at the track. You had bet the horses by letter A and so on instead of by horse number. One in a blue moon I would sit in the park behind the main NYC library and catch some rays and study the DRF (also checking out the pretty ladies around the park) and then head across the street and place my bets at the OTB there.
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There was a decent period of time in the 70's up until around the early '80s or so when sitting in Bryant Park before going to the OTB would have been going from fire to frying pan. Wasn't always the nice spot it is today.