Screeno to punch out the winning numbers on their cards. Apparently, on most nights patrons paid a modest fee for their cards, but one night a week was designated as “Bank Night” in which the audience would get free Screeno cards with their movie tickets. A 1937 romantic-comedic-musical movie entitled “Thrill of a Lifetime” featured a song called “Keno, Screeno and You.” Screeno Screeno (a portmanteau of "screen bingo") was a form of bingo played in American movie theaters during the Great Depression of the 1930s. To bolster attendance on slow weeknights, the neighborhood movie houses would feature the game in
Keno City The British Yukon Navigation Company sternwheeler, SS Keno, is preserved in Dawson City and protected as a National Historic Site. The 2004 Kim Barlow album "Luckyburden" is about Keno City. Two tracks are recorded live at the Keno City Snackbar. Whitehorse-based singer/songwriter, Megan Haddock, references Keno City in her 2015 song "Small Town". With the property abandoned by the previous owners, and mounting environmental impacts due to metal laden water coming from mine adits, in 2006 the Federal Government sold the assets of former United Keno Hill Mines through the Supreme Court to an Alexco Resource Corp. (Vancouver based mining