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Part X — Satellite Houses/LHL-S-182
LHL-S-182

Cassino da Urca

GROUP XII · HISTORIC CASINOS
Active record
PlaceUrca, Rio de Janeiro
Closedwith the Brazilian gambling ban
Status⚑ Historic record · September 2026

1 · Position

A casino at Urca beneath the Sugarloaf, opened in 1930, part of the same Rio gambling era as the Copacabana Palace and ended by the same national prohibition.

2 · Why it is in the Library

⚑ It is held as a companion to LHL-S-181 Copacabana Palace Casino so that the prohibition can be seen for what it was: not a decision about one house but the closing of an entire national category overnight. That is rare enough to be worth the group.

3 · ⚑ Candour

The opening year, 1930, was already in the Library’s build; I wrote that it was unknown without looking. Ownership, the performers who worked there and what became of the building remain unestablished.

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