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Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction. Cagatay Hamamcioglu was born in Turkey in 1974. He came to the U.S. in 1991 to attend college. He received a B.S. from Cal State Bakersfield and an MBA from Pepperdine. He worked as a marketing director in Los Angeles. Cagatay Hamamcioglu sits at the slot machines with his girlfriend Zeynep Oguz's mother at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino during a trip to Las Vegas in March 1993.
Excalibur Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.) Casinos Hotels Slot machines Gambling Turkish Americans Men Women Mothers Interiors Las Vegas (Nev.) Shades of L.A. Collection photographs Shades of L.A. Turkish American photographs
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