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Picking through all the Bank Club pics for some stuff from Ely. Looks like roulette must have been a popular game in this town as there seems to be plenty of wheel chips through the years from the Bank, the Hotel across the street and down at the Mustang.
Here's a curiousity you might see in a small Nevada town. Seems they may have been short on dollar chips so they ink-stamped some horseshu's with "$1.00". Infering from C/W that there may have been an extra box of the beige chips on hand for this dollar-stretching exercise.
Also a lesson in examining and researching your chips before you start cleaning them as one of the faux dollars (1.) is almost lost.
Guess they had their own ideas about chips at the Bank Club. This first issue $5 is black...same color as the first issue $25. Works if your dealers and cashiers are wide awake at all times! Well, the fives did have red inserts. Bank Club Inc. Don't recall another Nevada joint with "Inc." on their chips although I've got a CA. chip or two with this corporate designation.
Stuck in the orange chip because it was my first arrowdie. Got a few more BC chips but jeez, who doesn't? 
Here's the place back in the day when the mines were going and Hwy 50 may have actually had traffic on it. They'd let you play at the Club if you were only 16 or so if you were known and a good enough kid. The only dice I have. Wonder where they're at? Hmmm, guess I'll have one of the Chip Interns hunt them down today. Oh look, the pink roulette, just the blue note to hunt down in Aug. at the Show. see you there!
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