Close to the lighthouse, at the southern end of the town, there is a strip of land along the beach. The house’s back yards end in a cliff, 50 feet or more, above a beautiful strip of beach. And yes, you can find the agates there that the Oregon coast is so famous for. The street above closest to the shoreline is Elizabeth Street. At one end of the street (maybe three blocks long) is the Shilo Inn.

At one point, one of the amenities offered by the Shilo Inn was low stakes blackjack. The tables are now closed.

The people I bought several of these chips from sold me the “S” chip with the wreaths around the “S.” They listed it as a Shilo Inn chip on the flip the chip came in. I believe they sincerely thought it was a Shilo Inn chip, but I have my doubts. The hot stamp on the chip much more closely resembles the Sheraton Hotels logo than any logo I can find for the Shilo Inn chain. In fact, the buff colored chip has the precise logo I see on the internet. In addition, I can’t find any reference to a Sheraton in Newport, Oregon, so I suspect it comes from somewhere else entirely. I hope to send the scan to Bud Meyer for identification at some point, but that will have to wait for the moment. I will also send the “Gracie” chip scan as well, and see if I can clear up that mystery.

Here is a scan of all of the Newport chips together:

Michael Siskin