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ITEM VIEW: CG066371
320 West Capital Avenue
Broderick, California
Type: Card Room
Status: Closed
Open: 1950, Close: 1959

Also called the "Tower Club Coffee Shop", and located west of the Tower Bridge.

Owned by Everett Howard, who paid a federal gambling device tax for the Tower Club in 1952. Howard was charged with hosting illegal gambling at another location in New Helvetia Park in 1954 (see Archive).

Advertisement from 12/31/1953 (The Sacramento Bee).
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CG066371 Obsolete
Denom: $25
Added: 2012-03-06
Last Update: 2023-03-04
Color: Green
Inserts: 3 Maroon
Mold: Hub

NOTE: This inlaid hub mold chip is also identified as being used at the illegal "Tower Club" in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Hub mold chips were only rarely ordered in California in the 1950s, as the Mason Co. closed their San Francisco office in 1939.

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