Thanks, Archie, for another nice post about the 500 Club, the leading nightclub/gambling place in Atlantic City in the 1930's to 1950's. The Gaming Table shows the address of the club as 6 South Missouri Ave, A.C., and the Mason chip order cards, reproduced below, show the C-500 chips being mailed to 4 South Missouri Ave., close enough.
Here is a repeat of Archie's link to the Press article about D'Amato and the 500 Club:
http://206.43.192.183/content/sun/can07113.html
Here are other links about the Club:
picture of Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra at the 500 Club (Martin, by the way, first teamed up with Jerry Lewis at the Club):
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/cl500a.jpg
Skinny D'Amato (ownerof the Club, and major A.C. political power broker) with Donald O'Connor, Jimmy Durante and Sammy Davis, Jr.:
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/cl500p.jpg
The three chips from the Club I have for sale:
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/500c.jpg
I am asking (I'll pay the postage.) $100 for the orange chip (I have only 13 left), $75 for the brown chip (I have 24 left), and $35 for the white one (I have lots of those).
Robert Eisenstadt
140 Cadman Plaza West, 26-C
Brooklyn NY 11201
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