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674 East Main Street
El Centro, California
Type: Card Room
Status: Closed
Open: 1939, Close: c. 1996

Pool hall and licensed card room originally owned by Ed Moore, and later by Mat Moore. It was first located at 584 Main Street, and it later moved to 674 East Main Street in the 1950s. Also called the "Owl Billiard Hall" and "Owl Pool Hall".

T. R. King sold 8000 of the large crown, hot stamp owl head chips in six colors to Owl Billiard Hall, 674 Main Street, El Centro, CA between 1946 and 1961.

Advertisement from 2/23/1940 (Imperial Valley Press).
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Table Chips (6) [QuickView]
CG043553 Obsolete
Added: 2011-09-03
Last Update: 2023-04-14
Color: Blue
Mold: LCrown
Contributed by: Barry "barrychip" Weintraub
CG043554 Obsolete
Added: 2011-09-03
Last Update: 2023-04-14
Color: Red
Mold: LCrown
Contributed by: Barry "barrychip" Weintraub
Image
Needed		 CG043555 Obsolete
Added: 2011-09-03
Last Update: 2023-04-14
Color: Peach
Mold: LCrown
Image
Needed		 CG043556 Obsolete
Added: 2011-09-03
Last Update: 2011-09-03
Color: Yellow
Mold: LCrown
Image
Needed		 CG043557 Obsolete
Added: 2011-09-03
Last Update: 2023-04-14
Color: Brown
Mold: LCrown
CG043552 Obsolete
Denom: $5
Added: 2016-06-13
Last Update: 2023-02-22
Color: Blue
Inserts: N/A
Mold: H&C (LCV)
Inlay: HS
Contributed by: Richard Edward Staeffler

Attribution traced to Eastman's Illustrated Guide to California Card Room Gaming Chips & Checks (1998).
Casino Collectibles
Chip Order Cards (7) [QuickView]
CG276999
Issued: 1939
Added: 2022-01-15
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles
CG283889
Issued: 1944
Added: 2022-05-01
Last Update: 2022-05-01
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles

Paranoid [plain] Square Edge Chips
CG283890
Issued: 1944
Added: 2022-05-01
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles

Card added here to show that T. R. King sold the same hot stamp paranoid chip to more than one "Owl Club".
CG277001
Issued: 1945
Added: 2022-01-16
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles
CG285927
Issued: 1946
Added: 2022-06-06
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles
CG277000
Issued: 1957
Added: 2022-01-15
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles
CG285926
Issued: 1958
Added: 2022-06-06
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles
Total Items (13)

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