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A member of Harrah's / Caesars (Generic)
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219 N Center Street
Reno, Nevada 89501 MAP
Type: Land Based
775-786-3232
Status: Closed
Open: 1946, Close: 03/2020
Link to Website
Closed in March 2020 for COVID-19 pandemic and announced on June 5, 2020 that it will not re-open.

PURGE CHIPS: (Steve Passalacqua) The $1 table chip color of the Harrah's Brass Core chip is sunshine yellow. 46 color variations of this chip were purchased by Steve Passalacqua CCA #044, LM #214 (3 Dark Green, 6 Black, 15 light Green, and 22 red). These off-color chips came from the Kolesters Tool and Die Co. family. They made Harrah's first Brass Core casino chips in the late 1960s and 1970s. These brass core slugs have the Kolesters Tool and Die Co. logo inside the casting in the shape of California holding the letters “KTD”. When a new denomination was needed for a color change they would purge the existing ABS plastic color from the current chip run by adding the new color on top of the existing color in the machine. The old color would be purged out of the machine with the new color by filling the $1 brass core slugs until the new color appeared ready for the next denomination color. I call the chips used to purge the old color from the machine Purge Chips. Each of the 46 Kolesters Tool and Die Co. Purge Chips has a hand-cut serial number label placed by me for identification. Not all off-color Brass Core chips are purge Chips.
TCR numbers are used by express permission of SSS Publishing
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Cards with Carnival or Mardi Gras Tower were from the Las Vegas Harrah's Click for Harrah's Casino CG265003
Other cards with no location are listed under the generic Harrah's Casino Management Click for Harrah's / Caesars (Generic) Casino CG265005
CG049995
Added: 2015-05-05
Last Update: 2015-05-05
Color: Beige
Mftr: None
Contributed by: Robert Baker

Diamond Club
CG055434
Added: 2011-11-26
Last Update: 2021-04-28
Mftr: None
Contributed by: John K. Kallman

East Tower
CG016170
Added: 2013-05-08
Last Update: 2021-04-28
Color: Purple
Mftr: None
Contributed by: Robert Baker

East Tower
CG185085
Added: 2017-10-15
Last Update: 2024-05-16
Color: Tan
Mftr: None
Contributed by: Robert Baker

"EAST TOWER". Although there is no location on this key, the East Tower is at the Harrah's location in Reno, NV. Two dots (asterisks) at bottom of reverse
CG290541
Added: 2022-08-10
Color: Red
Mftr: None
Contributed by: Anton Bischof
CG290542
Added: 2022-08-10
Color: Red
Mftr: None
Contributed by: Anton Bischof

Black reverse
CG060098
Added: 2012-01-07
Last Update: 2021-04-28
Color: Tan
Mftr: None
Contributed by: Albert Scalzo (LM-2995-2)

"WEST TOWER". Although there is no location on this key, the West Tower is at the Harrah's location in Reno, NV.
CG069841
Added: 2012-03-30
Last Update: 2021-04-28
Mftr: None
Contributed by: Gary Acquistapace

West Tower
CG050408
Added: 2011-10-20
Last Update: 2021-06-11
Color: Yellow
Mftr: None
Contributed by: John K. Kallman

West Tower, CODEGREEN on back
CG016134
Added: 2013-05-08
Last Update: 2021-06-11
Color: Mustard
Mftr: None
Contributed by: Robert Baker

West Tower
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CG302961
Added: 2023-03-29
Contributed by: Eric Miller
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