| Owned by Bert J. Griffith. One of Los Angeles County's first licensed poker card rooms, it opened three months after the "Embassy Palace" in Gardena (often identified as the first legal Los Angeles county card room) re-branded itself as a poker card palace. Also called "Griff's Hob Nob". Griffith also owned the "Wagon Wheel Cafe", next to the Hob Nob, which offered other skill games.
T. R. King sold at least 8,600 of these large crown chips in five colors to Bert Griffith, Redondo Beach, CA and Joe Marks, Hawthorne, CA in 1938, and 3700 more to F. H. Jensen, 15 W. 8th Street, National City, in 1942. Fred H. Jensen owned the "Palace Pool Hall" at 16 West 8th Street, National City, CA, during the 1940s.
Advertisement from 12/2/1938 (The Redondo Reflex). |
