Excerpt from an article in The Nevadan, Sunday January 4, 1981. Harold Stocker was being interviewed; A.D. Hopkins wrote the article...

"In 1920 Mayme Stocker opened the Northern Club, a rather classy bar and cardroom on Fremont Street--the place which would eventually have Nevada Gaming License No. 1. 'My mother was licensee because my father worked for the railroad, and railroad men weren't supposed to have anything to do with things like that,' explained Stocker. 'She told me to come in and work because I knew how to deal, from Tijuana. There was hardly anybody who knew how in those days....

...'While legal gambling' is normally considered to date from 1931, said Stocker, five games were legal in the 1920s--lowball, stud, and draw poker; '500;' and bridge. These were thre only games offered in Las Vegas, said Stocker."