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As usual, in Las Vegas, most things are based on money. For example: You open a bar in Las Vegas and don't have the money to put slot machines in the bar as they are expensive. Along comes a route company and puts in machines, supplies tokens (paper now), performes matenance on those machines for a cut of the profit. The owner looses some space and gets a nice check every month. By far there have been many more small route company bars than there have been large casino's in Las Vegas. But there are way more large casino tokens floating around than there are route compnay tokens.
As to the actual token, there are some differences between them and your everyday slot token (usually dollar tokens). One side of the token has what you might call an ad for the small bar, club, etc, along with their addrress. The other side of the token has what is usually a logo for the Route Compnay, such as: Anchor, Southwest, SEC, etc, usually with their address. A single route company ad can appear on several different small bar tokens.
Some small bars have a generic side of the token. Usually the generic side consists of a large "1" and the words "one dollar". The other side has the name of the bar and its information. You can find the same generic side on several different tokens without mentioning the name of the route company. THESE ARE NOT ROUTE TOKENS. A true route token must have the name of the bar, cub, etc, on one side and the name of the route company on the other side.
I know that I will probably get some grief over what I have said above. But if you think about what I have said it does make sense. As a point of general interest, route company tokens are a thing of the past. Just about every small bar has replaced them with paper payouts. (I know of no bar that still uses route tokens.) Again, it is a matter of money, tokens are expensive to make. An era has passed. I believe the last route token was made about 5 years ago. RIP By the way, Route Tokens are fun to collect. Steve
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