FYI: Margaritaville

In the Casino chip and token report the Licensee is listed as FLAMINGO LAS VEGAS/O'SHEAS.

09/07/11 is when all these chips were authorized to "LAS VEGAS MARGARITAVILLE CASINO AT THE FLAMINGO"

$1 LAS VEGAS HAMMOCK AND PARROTS
$5 IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE WITH LIME BACKGROUND
$5 IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE WITH CLOCK
$25 CHANGES IN LATITUDE CHANGES IN ATTITUDE WITH JET
$25 FIINS UP LANDSHARK WITH BLUE FIN
$100 MARGARITAVILEE CASINO AT THE FLAMINGO THE LOVE AND LAS VEGAS LUCK


I find it very difficult to believe that they would get a separate license for Margaritaville. they may operate them as separate profit centers, with their own hiring rules, but not as different licenses.

So how are the margaritas at the Margaritaville casino?

Outstanding I would hope.

This thread just turned Doc's world on its head :) Right now he is getting very hot & bothered ...

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This thread just turned Doc's world on its head :) Right now he is getting very hot & bothered ...

Nah! Just got back from five nights at Harveys Lake Tahoe. During the trip I added chips from 22 casinos to my collection. (It was my first trip to the Reno/Tahoe/Carson City area.) I like the idea that I can add a Margaritaville chip to my collection the next time I am in Las Vegas.

There is one very minor issue I suppose I should mention: there was a reason I stopped at 22 casinos this trip instead of 19 or 25. I have mentioned before that I display my collection under the glass top on my desk. I try to arrange them in a neat, geometric array, and not all numbers of chips will array conveniently. My collection now totals 270, which I will display as 15 staggered rows of 18 chips each. An array of 268 or 269 or 271 chips is much more difficult to lay out attractively on my desktop. (OK, give it a go, math nerds!) Maybe I will post another photo as I did once before, but I just got in last night after midnight, and I haven't bothered with the rearranging yet.

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... Maybe I will post another photo as I did once before....

Well, this thread seems to have gone quiet for a few moments, so I don't suppose there is much harm in hijacking it to follow up on my post from yesterday, rather than starting a new thread. I finally got around to rearranging the chips on my desk this afternoon and took a new photo. Here is the low-res version:



To see it in higher-res, click on this link then click on that image to get the full-size version that you can scroll around. I don't think even the largest image is adequate to read all of the 270 chips -- blame that on my limited photography skills, I suppose.

Here is my list of the casinos from which I obtained these chips, in the order that the chips appear on the desktop, starting at the top left (Aliante Station) and going down the columns one at a time toward the right.


A total of 270 casinos are represented in the chip collection shown (11 "chips" are metal tokens). The list below also includes my metal tokens from Caesars Palace & Hard Rock in addition to their clay chips, but those two tokens are not shown in the photo or included in the 270 count.

From Nevada (Las Vegas mostly) (141 + 2 extra tokens):
Aliante Station (N. Las Vegas), Aquarius (Laughlin), Aria, Arizona Charlie's Decatur, Arizona Charlie's East, Atlantis (Reno), Bally's, Barbary Coast, Barcelona (N. Las Vegas-token), Bellagio, Bighorn (N. Las Vegas), Bill's Gambling Hall and Saloon, Binion's, Boardwalk, Boulder Station, Buffalo Bill's (Primm), Caesars Palace (clay chip), Caesars Palace (extra metal token), California, Cannery (N. Las Vegas), Carson Nugget (Carson City), Carson Valley (Minden), Casa Blanca (Mesquite), Casino Royale, Casuarina, Circus Circus, Circus Circus (Reno), Club Cal Neva (Reno), Club Fortune (Henderson), Colorado Belle (Laughlin), Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Crystal Bay (Lake Tahoe), Eastside Cannery, Edgewater (Laughlin), El Cortez, Eldorado (Henderson), Eldorado (Reno), Ellis Island, Eureka (Mesquite), Excalibur, Fandango (Carson City), Fiesta (Henderson), Fiesta Rancho (N. Las Vegas), Fitzgeralds, Flamingo, Four Queens, Fremont, Gold Coast, Gold Dust West (Carson City), Gold Spike, Gold Strike (Jean), Golden Gate, Golden Nugget, Golden Nugget (Laughlin), Grand Sierra (Reno), Green Valley Ranch (Henderson), Hacienda (Boulder City), Hard Rock (clay chip), Hard Rock (extra metal token), Harrah's, Harrah's (Lake Tahoe), Harrah's (Laughlin), Harrah's (Reno), Harveys (Lake Tahoe), Hooters, Horseshoe, Hyatt Regency (Henderson), Hyatt Regency (Lake Tahoe), Imperial Palace, Jerry's Nugget (N. Las Vegas), John Ascuaga's Nugget (Sparks), Joker's Wild (Henderson), Klondike Sunset (Henderson - token), Lakeside (Lake Tahoe), Las Vegas Club, Las Vegas Hilton, Longhorn (token), Lucky Club (N. Las Vegas), Luxor, M Resort, Main Street Station, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, Mirage, MontBleu (Lake Tahoe), Monte Carlo, Monte Lago (Henderson), Nevada Palace, New Frontier, New York New York, Orleans, O'Sheas, Pahrump Nugget (Pahrump), Palace Station, Palazzo, Palms, Paris, Peppermill (Reno), Pioneer (Laughlin), Planet Hollywood/Alladin, Plaza, Poker Palace (N. Las Vegas-token), Primm Valley Resort (Primm), Railroad Pass (Henderson), Rampart, Red Rock, Rio, River Palms (Laughlin), Riverside (Laughlin), Riviera, Saddle West (Pahrump), Sahara, Sam's Town, Sands Regency (Reno), Santa Fe Station, Searchlight Nugget (Searchlight-token), Siena (Reno), Silver Legacy (Reno), Silver Nugget (N. Las Vegas-token), Silver Saddle (token), Silverton, Skyline (Henderson-token), Slots-A-Fun, South Coast, South Point, Stardust, Stratosphere, Suncoast, Sunset Station, Tahoe Biltmore (Lake Tahoe), Terrible's, Terrible's Town (Pahrump), Texas Gambling Hall (N. Las Vegas), Treasure Island, Tropicana, Tropicana Express (Laughlin), Tuscany, Venetian, Virgin River (Mesquite), Western, Whiskey Pete's (Primm), Wild Wild West, Wynn LV

From Delaware (3):
Delaware Park (Wilmington), Dover Downs (Dover), Harrington Raceway & Casino (Harrington)

From Illinois (1):
Harrah's (Metropolis)

From Indiana (6):
Aztar (Evansville), Belterra (Florence), French Lick Resort (French Lick), Grand Victoria (Rising Sun), Hollywood (Lawrenceburg), Horseshoe Southern Indiana (Elizabeth)

From Louisiana (3):
Boomtown (New Orleans), Harrah’s (New Orleans), Treasure Chest (New Orleans)

From Mississippi (31):
Ameristar (Vicksburg), Bally's (Tunica), Bayou Caddy's Jubilee (Greenville) , Beau Rivage (Biloxi), Boomtown (Biloxi), Diamond Jack’s (Vicksburg), Fitzgerald's (Tunica), Gold Strike (Tunica), Grand Casino Biloxi, Grand Casino Tunica, Hard Rock (Biloxi), Harlow’s (Greenville), Harrah's (Tunica), Hollywood (Bay St. Louis), Hollywood (Tunica), Horizon (Vicksburg), Horseshoe (Tunica), Imperial Palace (Biloxi), Island View (Gulfport), Isle of Capri (Biloxi), Isle of Capri (Lula), Isle of Capri (Natchez), Palace (Biloxi), Rainbow (Vicksburg), Resorts Tunica, Riverwalk (Vicksburg), Roadhouse (Tunica), Sam's Town (Tunica), Sheraton (Tunica), Silver Slipper (Bay St. Louis), Treasure Bay (Biloxi)

From New Jersey (12):
Bally's, Borgata, Caesars, Golden Nugget, Harrah's Marina, Hilton, Marina, Plaza, Resorts AC, Showboat, Taj Mahal, Tropicana

From Pennsylvania (9):
Harrah's (Chester), Hollywood (Grantville), Meadows (Washington), Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs (Plains), Mount Airy (Mount Pocono), Parx (Bensalem), Rivers (Pittsburgh), Sands (Bethlehem), Sugar House (Philadelphia)

From West Virginia (5):
Greenbriar (White Sulphur Springs), Hollywood (Charles Town), Mountaineer Race Track & Casino (Chester), Tri-State Race Track & Gaming (Cross Lanes), Wheeling Island Race Track & Casino (Wheeling)

From Tribal Casinos (31):
Agua Caliente (Rancho Mirage, CA), Augustine (Coachella, CA), Avi (Laughlin, NV), Barona Valley Ranch (Lakeside, CA), Blue Water (Parker, AZ), Fantasy Springs (Indio, CA), Foxwoods (CT), Harrah's Cherokee (Cherokee, NC), Harrah's Rincon (Valley Center, CA), Havasu Landing (Havasu Landing, CA), MGM Grand at Foxwoods (CT), Mohegan Sun (CT), Morongo (Cabazon, CA), Pala (Pala, CA), Paradise (Fort Yuma, AZ), Pauma (Pauma Valley, CA), Pechanga (Temecula, CA), Rama (Rama, ON) , Red Earth (Salton Sea Beach, CA), San Manuel (Highland, CA), Santa Ysabel (Santa Ysabel, CA), Seminole Hard Rock (Tampa, FL), Seneca Allegany (Salamanca, NY), Seneca Niagara (Niagara Falls, NY), Silver Star (Pearl River, MS), Soboba (San Jacinto, CA), Spa Resort (Palm Springs, CA), Spotlight 29 (Coachella, CA), Sycuan (El Cajon, CA), Valley View (Valley Center, CA), Viejas Casino & Turf Club (Alpine, CA)

From Cruise Ships (7):
Celebrity Cruises -- from Century, Fun Ships (Carnival), Millennium (Celebrity), Monarch Sun (Monarch), Summit (Celebrity), Vision of the Seas (Royal Caribbean), Zuiderdam (Holland America)

From Canada (7):
Casino New Brunswick (Moncton, NB), Casino Niagara (Niagara Falls, ON), Casino Nova Scotia (Halifax, NS), Casino Nova Scotia (Sydney, NS), Edgewater (Vancouver, BC), Niagara Fallsview (Niagara Falls, ON), River Rock (Richmond, BC)

From the Carribbean (14):
Alhambra (Aruba - token actually given @ Seaport Casino, Aruba), Americana (Curaçao), Atlantis (Paradise Island, Bahamas), Awasa (Curaçao), Carnaval (Curaçao), Crystal (Aruba-token), Crystal Palace (Nassau, Bahamas), Divi Carina Beach (St. Croix), Excelsior (Aruba), Otrabanda (Curaçao), Royal Beach Resort (St. Kitts), San Marco (Curaçao), Stellaris (Aruba), Treasure Island (St. Maarten - token actually given @ Paradise Casino in Curaçao)


I kept the chip from the Monarch Sun cruise ship when I sailed that ship in 1976 -- my very first casino. With that lone exception, the chips in this collection are rather new acquisitions. They were gathered as I visited and played in these casinos beginning in the fall of 2003. As I have reported here previously, three of these 270 chips were purchased from the cashiers at casinos where I did not actually play, because their table games were closed when I visited, and I did not expect to get back when they were open.

VERY nice collection!

Quote: Doc

As I have reported here previously, three of these 270 chips were purchased from the cashiers at casinos where I did not actually play, because their table games were closed when I visited, and I did not expect to get back when they were open.

Did you at least ease your guilt of not playing by throwing a couple bucks into a slot machine?

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VERY nice collection!

Thank you. I enjoy looking at this collection whenever I am at my desk. Having the chips displayed in this manner allows me to enjoy it and to show it off without it taking up any room, unlike collecting souvenir coffee mugs, T shirts, etc. Adding to the collection just makes the array a little more compact.

No, I did not play the slots in any of those three casinos. I am not a slot player. On my first few visits to Las Vegas, before TITO was ubiquitous, I would wander through all of the casinos along the strip, dropping a single quarter in a slot in each establishment. Then I would go home and tell folks, "I gambled at the MGM, the Bellagio, the Venetian, the Mirage...."

Also, I didn't feel guilt -- more a feeling of annoyance that I couldn't maintain the theme exactly. I doubt I will ever play at any of those three casinos -- one is gone, one is too dangerous, and one is too remote (Pahrump) for me to get to it conveniently in the evening when their tables are open.

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Also, I didn't feel guilt -- more a feeling of annoyance that I couldn't maintain the theme exactly. I doubt I will ever play at any of those three casinos -- one is gone, one is too dangerous, and one is too remote (Pahrump) for me to get to it conveniently in the evening when their tables are open.

Doc, I'm quite jealous... I've got a lot of $1 chips, but not 270. I don't have a lot of the Southern casinos, and only a couple of the PA casinos. I do have the entire Illinois (save Rivers), Indiana casinos, and Iowa. But your collection is quite nice!

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I don't have a lot of the Southern casinos, and only a couple of the PA casinos. I do have the entire Illinois (save Rivers), Indiana casinos, and Iowa. But your collection is quite nice!

With your being from Ohio, I suppose you have easier access to the IL and IN casinos than I do from NC. I try to go to a music festival each July in Louisville, and I have extended my trip the past two years to pick up a few chips from those adjoining states. If I had a good excuse to get up Chicago way, I would get a bunch more. When are the Ohio casinos supposed to open with tables? I think there is supposed to be one in Cincinnati, which would not be far out of my way next summer.

My wife and I still have in mind a trip to northern New Mexico and Colorado that seems to keep getting pushed back on the calendar. If we ever get that trip booked, then I should be able to add quite a few more to the collection. Otherwise, I will probably just be adding one here and there over the next few years: Margaritaville, Revel, a few more in PA after the others open, and maybe a trip further through Louisiana some day. I even have a few more in Canada that I have in mind for the next time I get up that way, but there aren't many locations left with a whole bunch of casinos close together in an area that interests me enough to travel to.