There’s a new trend emerging that’s really not new at all. Like knitting, retro-camera filters, or fixed-gear bicyles everything old becomes new again. Now the latest thing seems to be bingo, it’s no longer the domain of the chain-smoking blue-rinse crowd. Bingo is moving up market, shedding the dusty halls and basements to welcome nightclubs and coffeehouses to the fold. Recently, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan began a monthly bingo night at his Chicago tea-shop, attracting a lot of press and a new breed of fans.
The online casino gambling craze of the 2000’s has evolved to include online bingo. Sites of which are growing quickly, and bringing the bingo experience to more and more people.
As more people take to the web for their bingo fix, the more likely they are to step into a live bingo hall. Glow in the dark lighting, DJs and cocktails have replaced, cigarettes, weak coffee and fluorescent tubes.