You're right, Von - Hanley's name IS in the article. Not in connection with Wylk's though. The whole article is below - it was a bit hard to read so I typed it out for everyone. I assume it was from the Miami Herald, but there's no indication when it was published.

Of course even if the chips were found with some of Hanley's doesn't mean they were used in FL. Recently I received an e-mail from a fellow in Dallas who had been given a box of chips by a judge in that city. He was told that the chips were seized from an illegal Dallas operation and wanted me to confirm. When I received a scan of the chips, I was able to identify them as having been used in illegal New Orleans clubs. I once found some Clover Club chips (Hollywood, once part-owned by Ben Siegel) in Toledo, OH. Where chips are found is not always indicative of where they come from!

Michael

GAMBLING CREEPS BACK IN KEYS

By Stephen Trumbull
Herald Staff Writer

KEY WEST -- Don't look now, Sheriff Berlin Sawyer, but your county's gambling slip is showing again - and you with less than seven months to go on your voluntary retirement from sheriffing.

Wylk's Bar and Restaurant, just a stone's throw outside the Key West City limits on the Overseas Highway, is wide open.

Although the sheriff's office knew a Herald reporter had been in town Friday, gambling games at Wylk's Bar continued Saturday night.

Tom Hanley's at Marathon has been in that same status whenever the passing traffic warrants it. At the moment the Keys are in the customary between-seasons slump and traffic is light.

Within Key West's city limits, two blackjack tables were going strong Friday night at Whitney's Club, one block from the police station. But an elderly, garrulous operator bemoaned the fact that while the "city commission don't mind a little blackjack, they won't let the umbrella game or the 'beat the dealer' dice game go."

At least one fraternal club in Key West has brought back the slot machines.

They're also behind the door marked "Members Only" at at least one veterans' organization in the Keys.

All of which is the usual foot-in-the-door prelude to a wide open return of the one-armed bandits.

A few weeks without heat and some of these vet groups interpret that "member" business loosely. A "member" becomes anyone who looks like he might have served in any war from the Second Seminole to the Korea show.

The Windley Key Club, closed abruptly late in the [illegible] season after The Miami Herald told of the high, wide and handsome operations there, is operating as a dine and dance spot. The club now has a liquor license. It had
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