Casino Chip of the Day
In discussing this and similar designs I have noted that the split-diamond suit pip is sometimes shown in a left-over-right configuration and sometimes in the mirror-image right-over-left. I think the presence of such a diamond pip suggests this really is a Bud Jones chip.
An article on Bud Jones chip designs is available here. The article shows several coin-insert chip designs but none identical to this one.
I offered to give you $5 chip earlier today, one of two I am willing to give away to people that collect chips.
We posted about the same time, my offer, your response to the ongoing discussion.
Back up a few posts, Doc, and respond, anyone else can ask for the 2nd one, I'll mail, no charge, free chip.
Someone could ask for 2nd one now, don't have to wait for Doc's response.
But I'm saving one for Doc, if he wants it. Still willing to give away both, and saving the 3rd for myself. 2F
I almost never turn down a gift, although in the case of casino chips I try to make certain that the giver understands that I have this little quirk that I don't consider a gift chip to be part of my collection -- I have to gather those for myself. That's why in the photos of my desktop, you can see those (currently) four chips set off to the side.
In this case though, I think I'll say, "Thanks very much" but suggest that you keep looking for another collector who would like to have a Fun Ships chip. I have a $1 Fun Ships chip that I collected on the Fantasy and posted here. I don't think that having both a $1 chip and a $5 chip would add much to my display, and there may be other members here who would be much more interested. When I posted my chip, no one replied with a post of their own chip, so there might be a shortage of those Fun Ship chips among the members here.
Thanks again for the offer, and I really don't mean to sound ungrateful.
Quote: PokerGrinderState: North Dakota
City: Fort Yates
Casino: Prairie Knights
Today's chip of the day is from Prairie Knights Casino in Fort Yates, ND. Fort Yates is located just south of Bismarck and about 30 miles to the ND/SD border. I stayed at the hotel here my first night on my way to Vegas. If you are ever in the area, very nice hotel rooms for an extremely reasonable cost. DO NOT eat the buffet though, they gave me a coupon when I signed up a club card, bad idea. Tough to turn down a free buffet :)
Prairie Knights Casino opened December 14, 1993. The casino has over 700 slot machines and 7 table games including BJ, Craps. Three Card Poker and Ultimate Texas Holdem.
Ayecarumba we have another entry into the North Carolina Tar Heels coloured chips. I am not sure who makes the chip but it is a similar plastic style as the British Columbia chips. It is white plastic with three baby blue edge inserts. Between each set of inserts are the four suits in baby blue. The center inlay is a silver coin, I really like the look of the chips with the metal insert. The coin is really simple, just the casino name with the chip denomination in the middle.
I believe this chip is currently manufactured by GPI (after they acquired Bud Jones). The design is referred to on the Museum of Gaming History's chip guide as "3x4 suits" referring to the three sets of suit designs around the metal insert. There is also a distinction regarding the "diamond" symbol in the four suits, as some can be "ROT" (the right side of the design is upper, like your chip), while others are "LOT" (left on top).
I like these chips, despite the fact that they are plastic injected over a metal coin. They are a vintage 1970's style.
As for the color, I suspect the casino management did an in depth study to determine which color combinations would stimulate the most gaming action... or the guy who orders the chips is a N.C. alumnus.
EDIT: Here's a link to a neat history of Bud Jones, Paul-Son, B&G and Gemaco from the GPI website. You have to read between the lines a bit, but as time goes by, the story that is told the most gets to be the "real" one.
Quote: DocI did miss your post 2F. When I posted my reply, it brought me right to this page, so I didn't see the bottom of the previous one with your post.
I almost never turn down a gift, although in the case of casino chips I try to make certain that the giver understands that I have this little quirk that I don't consider a gift chip to be part of my collection -- I have to gather those for myself. That's why in the photos of my desktop, you can see those (currently) four chips set off to the side.
In this case though, I think I'll say, "Thanks very much" but suggest that you keep looking for another collector who would like to have a Fun Ships chip. I have a $1 Fun Ships chip that I collected on the Fantasy and posted here. I don't think that having both a $1 chip and a $5 chip would add much to my display, and there may be other members here who would be much more interested. When I posted my chip, no one replied with a post of their own chip, so there might be a shortage of those Fun Ship chips among the members here.
Thanks again for the offer, and I really don't mean to sound ungrateful.
Doc, I understand completely.
I simply have 3 of the same chip, by accident, and thought someone(s) would like one of them.
Out of respect for all your dedication here, you had to have 1st dibs.
Maybe everyone feels the same way, they have to go collect their own in person, I can appreciate that, nice concept.
Just thought I'd ask. Keep up the good work!
You know, they (Harrah's cherokee) are soon opening a new store in Murphy NC.
You will need a chip or two, maybe we can get together there, then. For me that would be a pleasure.
Cheers! 2F
Quote: TwoFeathersATLYou know, they (Harrah's cherokee) are soon opening a new store in Murphy NC.
You will need a chip or two, maybe we can get together there, then. For me that would be a pleasure.
Cheers! 2F
An excellent suggestion! I do hope/plan to go there soon after they open. Maybe we can convince rdw4potus & his lady to join us. Others too -- we've already had a group gathering in Cherokee, so Murphy sounds like a good idea to me.
Quote: DocAn excellent suggestion! I do hope/plan to go there soon after they open. Maybe we can convince rdw4potus & his lady to join us. Others too -- we've already had a group gathering in Cherokee, so Murphy sounds like a good idea to me.
I remember reading about that last group get together, the plans, who's in, where are we eating, the various arrival departure dates. I came close to inviting myself. Next time I will......
Quote: DocThat chip's design is similar (but not identical) to my chips from Slots-A-Fun and Stardust in Las Vegas. I attributed the manufacturing of both of those to Bud Jones, though I was perhaps influenced by the MoGH Chip Guide, which I still feel attributes too many plastic chips to that source.
In discussing this and similar designs I have noted that the split-diamond suit pip is sometimes shown in a left-over-right configuration and sometimes in the mirror-image right-over-left. I think the presence of such a diamond pip suggests this really is a Bud Jones chip.
An article on Bud Jones chip designs is available here. The article shows several coin-insert chip designs but none identical to this one.
Very interesting post Doc. I have to say I am quite jealous that you have a Slots-A-Fun chip, the first time I was in Vegas I went there to get one and sadly I think they had just gotten rid of the tables.
City: Spirit Lake
Casino: Spirit Lake
Today's chip of the day is from Spirit Lake Casino in Spirit Lake, ND, MoGH says that the casino is located in St. Michaels while the chip says Spirit Lake, I decided to side with the chip. Spirit Lake Casino opened in 1996. The casino has over 700 slot machines, 7 BJ tables, 1 craps table and 4 poker tables.
The chip is white with 3 yellow/black edge inserts. The centre inlay is oversized, sandy on the outside and white on the inside. The casino logo is on the top of the inlay, the casino name in red in the middle and the denomination and location in black at the bottom,
Quote: PokerGrinderState: Colorado
City: Black Hawk
Casino: Z
I haven't uploaded pictures of the rest of my Canadian chips yet so I am going to move back into the American chips. Today's chip of the day is from the Z Casino in Black Hawk, CO. Z Casino used to be Bullwhackers Casino which was one of the first casinos in Black Hawk. I collected this chip along with all the other Colorado chips on my way home from Las Vegas two winters ago when I was living there. A snowstorm was in the midst of hitting the Denver area so that made this trip a little tougher. Outside of spinning out on the freeway and ending up in the ditch (no damage and somehow managed to drive out of the 8-10 foot ditch that was wet cause of the storm) the trip went well.
So Z isn't Johnny Z's (which was previously posted)? I was in Blackhawk June 2015 to collect all the chips there..I have Johnny Z but not Z. Is this a duplicate?
On a side note, in a week I'll have 9 new FL chips to post so let me know when I'm up to bat.
City: La Center
Casino: Chips
Well that sucks, I just did a 4 paragraph write up on this chip and accidentally erased it. I am a PO'ed at myself right now. I will try to recreate it.
In the state of Washington card rooms are classified as Class D gaming establishments. By rule these casinos can't have more than 15 table games which can't seat more than 10 people per table, because of this rule casino owners are forced to improvise. La Center has two parking lots across the street from each other, both having two casinos side by side. I am not sure if the same owner owns all four casinos or if each pair is owned separately. The way they get by the rule is that each casino must have their own entrance from the parking lot and I don't believe that the casinos are allowed to have a connecting door in any way. The other thing that may seem quite obvious is that since they are all "separate" casinos they each then have different casino names which means they each must have their own casino chips. Which means bonus for a chip collector!
Today's chip of the day is from Chips Casino. I visited La Center when I was staying in Portland for a night, the casinos are about a 30 minute drive from Portland. The casino opened in 1998 and when looking for this info I found out that the casino closed in January, 2014. Which means La Center is down to 3 casinos. Well I guess that is all on the information I had for this chip because I can't seem to remember what I wrote about.
The chip is a white Chipco product, The chip is extremely worn out which makes me believe that they used the same chips for the entire 16 year existence of this casino. The chip has three black faded edge inserts. The centre (I am back to using the Canadian spelling since I am no longer using it for an official casino location) has the Chips Casino La Center logo. The blue blob looking thing is the remnants of a flower. Below the logo is the denomination in black.
City: La Center
Casino: Palace
Today's chip of the day is the Palace Casino in La Center, WA. I can't seem to find an opening date for this casino, it's sister casino Chips Casino which is now closed opened in 1998 so maybe around there?
The chip is a plastic model different from the other plastic chips we have seen here. Though like Doc said MoGH attributes every plastic chip to Bud Jones. The chip is white with 6 blue edge inserts and 6 blue horizontal lines on the white portion. The casino name is in red with black outline, I like how the red bleeds out of the outline. It is a nice touch if they did it on purpose. The denomination and location are both in black.
Almost all of my chips were ones that I got while playing and did not cash in. There were a few casinos where the table games were not operating and I did not expect to return in a reasonable period to collect in my usual manner, so I bought a chip at the cashier's window. I can think of three such cases, and there may have been more. At least I collected those myself at the casino, but not in play like the others.
Then there was the case of the Yavapai casino in Prescott, AZ, for which I posted the following:
Quote: DocAs RDW reported when he posted his chip from Bucky's Casino, the affiliated Yavapai Casino across the street and down the hill had already removed its table games. When I was at Bucky's, they were using a mix of Bucky's and Yavapai chips, at least in the $1 and $5 denominations.
O.K., so I had a Yavapai chip in my hand that I got by playing a table game, but I had never played in the Yavapai Casino. My "policy" is to collect chips from casinos where I have played, and I have done fairly well at that. What to do, what to do….
So I kept the chip, went across the street, and played one-spin in a $1 slot. Lost, of course, but at least I have gambled at the Yavapai Casino and have a souvenir chip from there!
I have subsequently used that technique at several casinos for which the table games were not operating during my visit and I had to make a purchase from the cashier.
As may be seen in my photos of my chip display, I also have four gift chips received from WoV members, and I keep them displayed separately from those I collected.
Of course, I should say something like "far be it from me to tell you how to manage your own collection." But I just did.
This whole thread is sort of a freak-out tour for me in that way, actually. I've had 47 different addresses, counting from childhood, and nearly everywhere I've lived there's now a casino or 3 within an hour's drive, when there wasn't one during my time. If you count Florida's boats, I suppose it would BE everywhere.
Astonishing how the country has changed in that regard.
Quote: DocMy suggestion: keep all of the chips, or at least one from each casino. But keep the ones that you have collected yourself at the casino separate from the ones you have bought or traded for.
Almost all of my chips were ones that I got while playing and did not cash in. There were a few casinos where the table games were not operating and I did not expect to return in a reasonable period to collect in my usual manner, so I bought a chip at the cashier's window. I can think of three such cases, and there may have been more. At least I collected those myself at the casino, but not in play like the others.
Then there was the case of the Yavapai casino in Prescott, AZ, for which I posted the following:
I have subsequently used that technique at several casinos for which the table games were not operating during my visit and I had to make a purchase from the cashier.
As may be seen in my photos of my chip display, I also have four gift chips received from WoV members, and I keep them displayed separately from those I collected.
Of course, I should say something like "far be it from me to tell you how to manage your own collection." But I just did.
I am in the same boat as Doc, I have my collection of 390 casino chips that I collected stored together in chip racks and the chips that were gifts from other people I keep in bag in a drawer and do not count them as anything when it comes to my collection.
City: La Center
Casino: Last Frontier
Today's chip of the day is The Last Frontier Casino in La Center, WA. The casino opened May 12, 1998. This casino shares a parking lot with it's sister casino The New Phoenix Casino.
The chip is a blue Chipco. The white around the edges of the chip are from wear, MoGH has picture of a new one of these chips and it is fully blue. The centre of the chip has a picture of a mountain, points to anyone who can identify the mountain cause I am not even going to try. The casino name and location are in white around the border of the chip. The denomination is on the lower half of the chip in blue.
Anyone care to guess what tomorrow's chip of the day will be?
City: La Center
Casino: New Phoenix
Today's chip of the day is The New Phoenix Casino which is the sister property of The Last Frontier Casino. As well this is the last of the 4 La Center casinos. The casino opened May 12, 1998.
Today is another Chipco product. The chip is light blue with 6 darker blue edge inserts connected by a circle that outlines where the centre inlay would be if there were one. The chip is quite worn much like yesterday's and shows a white line all around the chip showing it's wear. In the middle of the chip is the casino logo. Obviously that is a phoenix but does the thing below it look like a surf board to anyone else? The location is above the logo and denomination is below, both are in black.
But I don't know; just speculating.
The mountain is probably Mt St Helens which is close but Mt Hood might be closer. The picture looks like it has a flat top which would resemble St Helens.
The New Phoenix is the only casino that I have ever seen that has chips in a higher denomination than the table limits. The limits are $300 and they have $500 chips in the tray that they use for color ups.
I think Mt. St. Helens:
But after she blew up and made an angry mess in May 1980:
Not the more elegant St. Helens as she was before she popped her cork, flipped her lid, and barfed her innards:
City: Renton
Casino: Freddie's Club
Today's chip of the day is from Freddie's Club in Renton, WA. The casino opened on November 10, 1997. I visited this casino when I was in Seattle for 4 days back in 2012. Seattle is a beautiful city to spend time in if you ever have the chance.
The chip is white with a dark blue border. The chip has 3 edge inserts pink/baby blue. The centre inlay has the casino logo in the middle, the denomination in red below it and the location in black at the very bottom of the chip.
I have managed to find opening dates for the last few days of posts, I will edit those now.
City: SeaTac
Casino: Silver Dollar
Today's chip of the day is from the Silver Dollar Casino in SeaTac, WA. I always thought that SeaTac was just a nickname for the area between Seattle and Tacoma but I found out that it is a real city. Silver Dollar Casino opened in 1999.
The chip is white with palm trees and a table with chips and the AJ of spades. The casino name is in red and blue. The location is in blue and the denomination is black inside of what looks like a sun.
Quote: PokerGrinderState: Wasington
City: SeaTac
Casino: Silver Dollar
Today's chip of the day is from the Silver Dollar Casino in SeaTac, WA. I always thought that SeaTac was just a nickname for the area between Seattle and Tacoma but I found out that it is a real city. Silver Dollar Casino opened in 1999.
The chip is white with palm trees and a table with chips and the AJ of spades. The casino name is in red and blue. The location is in blue and the denomination is black inside of what looks like a sun.
So three things come to mind:
1. I thought Sea Tac was the airport. Is the city's name properly spelled without the space like it appears on the chip?
2. Why the Ace and the Jack? Do they hold some significance to the casino?
3. How easy is it to find coconut trees in Washington?
I defer to the chip experts for #2, but since I lived near there:Quote: AyecarumbaQuote: PokerGrinderState: Wasington
City: SeaTac
Casino: Silver Dollar
Today's chip of the day is from the Silver Dollar Casino in SeaTac, WA. I always thought that SeaTac was just a nickname for the area between Seattle and Tacoma but I found out that it is a real city. Silver Dollar Casino opened in 1999.
The chip is white with palm trees and a table with chips and the AJ of spades. The casino name is in red and blue. The location is in blue and the denomination is black inside of what looks like a sun.
So three things come to mind:
1. I thought Sea Tac was the airport. Is the city's name properly spelled without the space like it appears on the chip?
2. Why the Ace and the Jack? Do they hold some significance to the casino?
3. How easy is it to find coconut trees in Washington?
#1. Sea Tac (SEA) is the airport. The official town of SeaTac (properly spelled with no space) was named after it. Sea Tac was there long before they thought of inventing SeaTac. The little town only formally came into existence in 1990, is all of ten square miles, and the airport is easily more than a quarter of it. I'd say about another quarter or more of it is occupied by motels, car-rental lots, drive-through food joints, and business establishments featuring performance artists on brass poles.
#3. Easy. Just buy a ticket to fly to another hemisphere at Sea Tac, in the western side of SeaTac, and in about 18 hours or so you'll be there. I've done so. It is a really big airport with flights to places with many very fine coconuts, I can assure you. Otherwise, the nearest coconuts are found in the produce section of a Safeway store. So yeah, that's pretty weird to be on the chip, and I don't get it. It reminds me that Las Vegas lacks a polar bear or penguin themed casino.
Quote: DrawingDeadI defer to the chip experts for #2, but since I lived near there:Quote: AyecarumbaQuote: PokerGrinderState: Wasington
City: SeaTac
Casino: Silver Dollar
Today's chip of the day is from the Silver Dollar Casino in SeaTac, WA. I always thought that SeaTac was just a nickname for the area between Seattle and Tacoma but I found out that it is a real city. Silver Dollar Casino opened in 1999.
The chip is white with palm trees and a table with chips and the AJ of spades. The casino name is in red and blue. The location is in blue and the denomination is black inside of what looks like a sun.
So three things come to mind:
1. I thought Sea Tac was the airport. Is the city's name properly spelled without the space like it appears on the chip?
2. Why the Ace and the Jack? Do they hold some significance to the casino?
3. How easy is it to find coconut trees in Washington?
#1. Sea Tac (SEA) is the airport. The official town of SeaTac (properly spelled with no space) was named after it. Sea Tac was there long before they thought of inventing SeaTac. The little town only formally came into existence in 1990, is all of ten square miles, and the airport is easily more than a quarter of it. I'd say about another quarter or more of it is occupied by motels, car-rental lots, drive-through food joints, and business establishments featuring performance artists on brass poles.
#3. Easy. Just buy a ticket to fly to another hemisphere at Sea Tac, in the western side of SeaTac, and in about 18 hours or so you'll be there. I've done so. It is a really big airport with flights to places with many very fine coconuts, I can assure you. Otherwise, the nearest coconuts are found in the produce section of a Safeway store. So yeah, that's pretty weird to be on the chip, and I don't get it. It reminds me that Las Vegas lacks a polar bear or penguin themed casino.
Did you write the Wiki article lol. Almost exactly what I read there.
As for the Ace and Jack I have a few chips with cards on them and I think a lot of the time they are just there for decoration. No meaning really, other than that they are a casino.
I did read the wikipedia entry to check myself, and it was pretty good for correcting my "about" this and "around" that to specifics - I would've said the airport is more than half of it. I went to high school not real far from there. But not recently; disco hadn't even come & gone yet. It wasn't a 'town' then. Just a not very lovely part of the old Pacific Highway, if you didn't want to take I-5. Then later I was shacking up there in the el-cheapo motels visiting from Portland most every weekend for the first few years after they (Ron Crocket) built Emerald Downs, the racetrack that replaced Longacres, which was just a little after they invented that ridiculous little supposed 'town.' Emerald Downs is just a little east of there and a few miles south, technically in Auburn, and is running now and I'd suggest it is worth an afternoon if you're still in the neighborhood on your travels. But unless something has changed recently, there'd be no chips to be got from it.
I was holding out hope for something about those coconuts. Damp, chilly coconuts.
City: Tukwila
Casino: Golden Nugget
Today's chip of the day is from the Golden Nugget Casino in Tukwila, WA. I wasn't able to find a opening date but I did find that the casino was sold and then closed earlier this year. I found an article from April that said the company was planning on re branding the casino. Then I found an article that the city council voted to ban gaming from the city and that all the card rooms must close by January 1, 2016. The Great American Casino and Golden Nugget already closed so that just leaves the Riverside Casino left to close before the year is out.
The chip is white with alternating grey and dark grey designs around the edge of the chip. The casino logo, location and denomination are on what looks like a sign that would be outside of a business.
City: Tukwila
Casino: Great American
Today's chip of the day is from the Great American Casino in Tukwila, WA. The casino opened on January 5, 1998. I went here a couple times as it was just down the street from our hotel. Friendly dealers and staff.
The chip is white with 6 yellow edge inserts and 3 horizontal yellow lines, one between each set of two edge inserts. The centre inlay is a version of the American flag with the Great American Casino logo on it. The chip denomination is in white and the location is in black.
It the image in the center of the "Great American" gold circle supposed to be a tree in the shape of a spade symbol?
That brings up question. Hearts look like a heart, Diamonds a diamond, but what is the Club supposed to represent, since it has three circular shapes? Similarly, what is the Spade supposed to represent? A digging implement?
Quote: PokerGrinderI found an article from April that said the company was planning on re branding the casino. Then I found an article that the city council voted to ban gaming from the city and that all the card rooms must close by January 1, 2016. The Great American Casino and Golden Nugget already closed so that just leaves the Riverside Casino left to close before the year is out.
So was business any good for the casinos before this action by the council? What's it like in the general vicinity of Tukwila? Why don't the casinos just re-open outside of the city limits? They might have to rebuild, of course, but that might be a better business option than shutting down completely. Seems as if there are plenty of precedents for that kind of response to a Let's-legislate-our-own-idea-of-morality local governmental unit.
Quote: AyecarumbaI like the stylized American flag graphic.
It the image in the center of the "Great American" gold circle supposed to be a tree in the shape of a spade symbol?
That brings up question. Hearts look like a heart, Diamonds a diamond, but what is the Club supposed to represent, since it has three circular shapes? Similarly, what is the Spade supposed to represent? A digging implement?
I don't see a tree, just a spade slightly altered for style. As far as the club, it always reminded me of a four leaf clover.
Quote: DocSo was business any good for the casinos before this action by the council? What's it like in the general vicinity of Tukwila? Why don't the casinos just re-open outside of the city limits? They might have to rebuild, of course, but that might be a better business option than shutting down completely. Seems as if there are plenty of precedents for that kind of response to a Let's-legislate-our-own-idea-of-morality local governmental unit.
To be honest Doc I wouldn't even know where to begin. I have only been in the area once for four days. Do we have anybody who frequents this thread from that area of the country? I assume not since that area of casinos seems to be untouched for the most part.
P.S Doc are you not going to make an avatar? All the cool kids are doing it :P
Quote: AyecarumbaI like the stylized American flag graphic.
It the image in the center of the "Great American" gold circle supposed to be a tree in the shape of a spade symbol?
That brings up question. Hearts look like a heart, Diamonds a diamond, but what is the Club supposed to represent, since it has three circular shapes? Similarly, what is the Spade supposed to represent? A digging implement?
Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suit_(cards) has some interesting things to say about it. From what I can tell, clubs are clovers, or plants, and spades are pikes, as in the top blade on a staff/spear, used as a weapon.
The suits go back more than 600 years, again according to Wiki.
Because I'm hallucinating, or getting very confused as I age. The chip pic & post I saw & responded to (an old Aladdin) are apparently not here. Even though I thought it was an exceptionally nice looking chip. So nevermind.
In that vein, a book that may particularly interest people here is Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker. I've been meaning to get and read it, but haven't. But what people who have read it (including some who quoted it in some discussions on a local poker related board) have said about that topic from their reading of it is about the same as what you just said.Quote: beachbumbabsWiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suit_(cards) has some interesting things to say about it. From what I can tell, clubs are clovers, or plants, and spades are pikes, as in the top blade on a staff/spear, used as a weapon.
The suits go back more than 600 years, again according to Wiki.
But I don't fit in that category!Quote: PokerGrinderDoc are you not going to make an avatar? All the cool kids are doing it :P
I have to admit that I considered it. I took a brief look for an image that I think I have seen before but couldn't find with the near-zero effort I was willing to expend.
What I looked for was something like one of the Paulson samples visible here. As a $1 chip collector, should I have chosen a $100 or $1,000 (phony) chip as an avatar?
Quote: DocBut I don't fit in that category!
I have to admit that I considered it. I took a brief look for an image that I think I have seen before but couldn't find with the near-zero effort I was willing to expend.
What I looked for was something like one of the Paulson samples visible here. As a $1 chip collector, should I have chosen a $100 or $1,000 (phony) chip as an avatar?
To each their own, your avatar will just be the man in the shadows :)
City: Tukwila
Casino: Riverside
Today's chip of the day is from the Riverside Casino in Tukwila, WA. Riverside Casino opened on August 14, 2003. The chip is a white Chipco product. I guess I will call those grey lines inserts, there are 8 of them and they are connected by a grey circle. I am not sure what they were going for here but it kind of looks like a Nile going through the desert with a tree. Since the casino is not even close to a desert I am going to assume that I am wrong. The location of the casino is in black at the top of the chip and the denomination is in yellow at the bottom.
This is my last Washington entry and after this I believe that I have 22 more which leaves us needing a new CCotD poster on August 31. Doc I think that Wezvidz said that he has 9 chips to post a while back.
Quote: AyecarumbaI like the stylized American flag graphic.
It the image in the center of the "Great American" gold circle supposed to be a tree in the shape of a spade symbol?
That brings up question. Hearts look like a heart, Diamonds a diamond, but what is the Club supposed to represent, since it has three circular shapes? Similarly, what is the Spade supposed to represent? A digging implement?
The spade graphic is the logo of Great Canadian Casinos that owned(owns) Great American. We have seen it before with some of the BC casinos.
Quote: kenarmanThe spade graphic is the logo of Great Canadian Casinos that owned(owns) Great American. We have seen it before with some of the BC casinos.
Of course, I missed the connection. When reading up on these casinos it mentioned they were owned by Great Canadian Casinos, I just didn't connect them to the BC casinos for some reason.
City: Pickstown
Casino: Fort Randall
Today's chip of the day is from the Fort Randall Casino in Pickstown, SD. As you will clearly be able to see from the chip this is an Indian casino. The casino is owned and operated by the Yankton Sioux Tribe. The opening date apparently is not available for some reason. I was having a lot of trouble remembering this casino and looking at pictures of it wasn't helping. I looked on a map to try and figure out what trip I would have been here and that is when it hit me, I stayed at the hotel here as my last stop on my way home from Vegas two winters ago. Just need to jog the memory sometimes. Does this ever happen to you Doc with a casino that you only hit to get a chip?
The chip is very odd, I am not sure what type of chip it might be. The chip is grey with 12 white edge inserts. The centre inlay is in my opinion gold with a darker gold/bronze interior. There is a Indian head dress in the middle of the chip. The casino name and tribe name are in black around the inside of the inlay. The location is white inside of a black blocking under the head dress with the denomination in yellow under that.
Quote: PokerGrinderI was having a lot of trouble remembering this casino and looking at pictures of it wasn't helping. I looked on a map to try and figure out what trip I would have been here and that is when it hit me, I stayed at the hotel here as my last stop on my way home from Vegas two winters ago. Just need to jog the memory sometimes. Does this ever happen to you Doc with a casino that you only hit to get a chip?
That's a fair description of my life. My recollections are a combination of fuzzy memories and false memories.
BTW, why would a tribe name their casino for a fort? It seems like a bit of a contradiction to me, but this is at least the fourth Fort Something-or-Other Casino that we have covered in this thread, and I think they are all tribal casinos. I can understand the naming of Fort Pierce Jai-Alai (Is that even tribal?) because it is located in the city/town of Fort Pierce, but the others just don't seem quite right to me.
Quote: DocThat's a fair description of my life. My recollections are a combination of fuzzy memories and false memories.
BTW, why would a tribe name their casino for a fort? It seems like a bit of a contradiction to me, but this is at least the fourth Fort Something-or-Other Casino that we have covered in this thread, and I think they are all tribal casinos. I can understand the naming of Fort Pierce Jai-Alai (Is that even tribal?) because it is located in the city/town of Fort Pierce, but the others just don't seem quite right to me.
Not tribal. State of Florida allows racetracks for horses and greyhounds, and jai alai frontons, none tribal. Most all of the frontons are gone.
Quote: DocThat's a fair description of my life. My recollections are a combination of fuzzy memories and false memories.
I seem to do that way too much for man of my age. Can I claim senility at 24?
