MINNEAPOLIS — After working the graveyard shift, a security guard wearing a Santa hat, glasses and a white beard drove through falling snow one recent morning to the Moose bar and grill, one of this city’s premier gambling institutions.
He sipped a blueberry-flavored vodka cocktail and shelled out a few bucks for some pull tabs — cardboard tickets that peel open to reveal a combination of images and, if you are lucky, cash prizes.
