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Exploring Northern Kentucky’s hidden, forgotten, and erased stories. YouTube: @COVertNKY #lovethecov

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COVertNKY @covertnky.com · 28/02/2026

Happening soon. 🗃️

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COVertNKY @covertnky.com · 27/02/2026

It's gonna be a sunny and warm(ish) day here in Covington. That means the weather will be perfect to finalize the script for April's Covington Vice Stroll, a walking tour through 150 years of gambling and bootlegging history. 🗃️

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COVertNKY @covertnky.com · 14/01/2026

I wonder what this 1830s Kentucky anti-gambling society did for fun?

Page from an 1834 address about the Anti-Gambling Society of Transylvania University delivered in Lexington, Kentucky.

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COVertNKY @covertnky.com · 01/01/2026

A gambler who played a key role in regional & national sports betting history died while living in an apartment inside this Northern Kentucky building.

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COVertNKY @covertnky.com · 26/12/2025

Assembling sites for new crime history tours in 2026. One site that should be on the bike tour but won't b/c it's too far afield is this brick building (left). It has ties to the birth of syndicated horse race betting, Churchill Downs, and key Cincy area casinos. If only its walls could talk!

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COVertNKY @covertnky.com · 08/12/2025

How much more criminally corrupt was Northern Kentucky than Pittsburgh? Where do you see "Pittsburgh" in this 1985 graphic?

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COVertNKY @covertnky.com · 02/12/2025

The largest urban redevelopment project in the Midwest is underway in Covington, Ky. The city is transforming an IRS processing facility built in the 1960s into a mixed-use development. I wonder if folks see the irony in the IRS locating there & the many IRS gambling busts, 1950-1980s? 🗃️

Photo collage: IRS site original development in the early 1960s (upper left), IRS site being redeveloped in 2025 (upper right), officials posing for a photo in front of IRS construction site sign in the 1960s (lower left), and story about IRS returning cash seized in a gambling club raid published in 1968 (lower right).

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COVertNKY @covertnky.com · 23/11/2025

Did you know that in 1950, Covington had the most (legal, sort of) slot machines in all of Kentucky? Starting in the 1940s, the IRS required gamblers to buy licenses for coin-operated vending machines that paid cash prizes or tokens redeemable for cash. Covington had more than Newport!

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