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Recreation parlors: Dens of sin or good, clean fun?

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While you’re lying around in your silk kimono watching scores appear in real time on a picture screen attached to your wall, consider your poor ancestors having to leave the comfort of their homes for a visit to a “recreation parlor” for live updates.

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