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ITEM VIEW: CG287099
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2935 1/2 Ocean Front
Ocean Park, California
Type: Card Room
Status: Closed
Open: 1939, Close: 1954
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Located in Ocean Park, a beachfront neighborhood in the southwest corner of Santa Monica. The building was torn down in the 1960s.
The attribution of the ZigZag-mold hot stamp chips is traced to Eastman's Illustrated Guide to California Card Room Gaming Chips & Checks (1998).
Listing from the 1947 Santa Monica Yellow Pages, under "Hotels" (Library of Congress). |
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CG287099 Issued: 1971
Added: 2022-06-22
Last Update: 2023-03-04 Contributed by: David Sarles
The ZigZag mold was first used by the Noll Co. in the 1930s. In the 1960s, T. R. King acquired the Noll ZigZag mold, and many of their hot stamp dies. It appears that they used the "Circle Hotel" hot stamp die on later Large Crown chips.
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