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ChipGuide
ChipGuide - A Catalog of Casino Chips and Collectibles
29 North Sacramento Street
Lodi, California
Type: Card Room
Status: Closed
Open: 1974, Close: 2000

Originally owned by Roy Lee Grose (RLG). Grose previously owned the "Friendly Tavern" and the "Louie the Greek Club" (1971-1974), a licensed card room, at this same address. Jack L. Morgan bought the club in 2000 and renamed it "Jack's Back Card Room", a bar and two table card room open until 2005.

T. R. King sold 1600 of these small crown chips in five denominations to Roy Gross [sic] between 1964 and 1967 for use at the adjacent ”Harold's Club” (31-33 N. Sacramento) and the ”Friendly Tavern” (25 N. Sacramento). The Gaming Table (2017) identify these chips as also being used at "Roy's Club" in the 1970s.

Listing (second from bottom) from the 1975 Lodi Yellow Pages, under "Clubs".

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Casino Money
Table Chips (10) [QuickView]
CG041059 Show Casinos Obsolete
Denom:
Added: 2011-08-12
Last Update: 2011-08-12
Color: Gray
Mold: SCrown
Contributed by: Barry "barrychip" Weintraub

Error Chip
CG041060 Show Casinos Obsolete
Denom: 10¢
Added: 2011-08-12
Last Update: 2022-01-28
Color: Gray
Mold: SCrown
Contributed by: Barry "barrychip" Weintraub

T. R. King sold the small crown "RLG" chips to Roy Gross, originally at the Friendly Tavern and later at Harold's Club in Lodi in the 1960s. The Gaming Table (5th Ed.) identifies the chips as also being used at "Roy's Club".
CG041061 Show Casinos Obsolete
Denom: 25¢
Added: 2011-08-12
Last Update: 2023-04-15
Color: Orange
Mold: SCrown
Image
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CG041064 Obsolete
Denom: $1
Added: 2011-08-12
Last Update: 2023-04-15
Color: Blue
Inserts: 3 White/Brown
Mold: H&C (LCV)
CG028860 Obsolete
Denom: $1
Added: 2011-01-09
Last Update: 2019-11-16
Color: Blue
Inserts: 3 Cream
Mold: H&C (SCV)
Contributed by: Barry "barrychip" Weintraub
Image
Needed
CG041062 Show Casinos Obsolete
Denom: $1
Added: 2011-08-12
Last Update: 2023-04-15
Color: Lt Blue
Inserts: 4 Red
Mold: SCrown
Image
Needed
CG041065 Obsolete
Denom: $5
Added: 2011-08-12
Last Update: 2011-08-12
Color: Green
Inserts: 3 Orange
Mold: H&C (LCV)
CG028861 Obsolete
Denom: $5
Added: 2011-01-09
Last Update: 2019-11-16
Color: Lt Green
Inserts: 3 Red/Green
Mold: H&C (SCV)
Contributed by: Barry "barrychip" Weintraub
Image
Needed
CG041063 Show Casinos Obsolete
Denom: $5
Added: 2011-08-12
Last Update: 2023-04-15
Color: Mustard
Inserts: 4 Green
Mold: SCrown
CG041066 Obsolete
Denom: $25
Added: 2011-08-12
Last Update: 2023-11-20
Color: Red
Inserts: 3 Pink
Mold: H&C (LCV)
Contributed by: Raulin Mendonca
Updated by: Jim Colbert

Attribution traced to Armin Pfaender's California Chip Guide (2004). Not in Eastman (1998).


Casino Collectibles
Chip Order Cards (5) [QuickView]
CG278151 Show Casinos
Issued: 10/9/1964
Added: 2022-01-28
Last Update: 2022-11-12
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles
CG278147 Show Casinos
Issued: 10/26/1964
Added: 2022-01-28
Last Update: 2022-11-11
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles
CG278148 Show Casinos
Issued: 1/27/1965
Added: 2022-01-28
Last Update: 2022-11-11
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles
CG278149 Show Casinos
Issued: 4/25/1967
Added: 2022-01-28
Last Update: 2022-11-12
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles
CG278150 Show Casinos
Issued: 4/25/1967
Added: 2022-01-28
Last Update: 2022-11-11
Mftr: T. R. King
Contributed by: David Sarles
Total Items (15)

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