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1929 Agua Caliente $25 crest & seal Tijuana,Baja Calif.
Item number: 150463695925
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The Agua Caliente was the most lavish gambling resort in the Western Hemisphere for its short, great run (1928-35). Besides the casino, it had a race track with the highest purses in the world, and a golf course which hosted the richest prize money tournaments in the world. US Playing Card Co 1929 record book page shown below.

Here is one description:

"The Agua Caliente resort cost approximately $10,000,000, an enormous sum of money for that period. The first stage of the project comprised a 500 room hotel, casino, health spa, and café, inaugurated on June 23, 1928. The second stage consisted of an "olympic size" swimming pool, health clinics, 18 hole golf course, putting course, horse racing and greyhound race tracks, gardens and tropical aviary, bungalows, laundry, and workshop areas completed at the end of December 1929. The resort also had its own private radio station and airport facility [and railroad link]. "

Robert

P.S. Have any Agua Caliente chips, especially roulettes, for sale or trade?