This is a long one, if you are not into history, hit the back button now.
First and foremost, credit to a “Special Friend Of The Hobby.”

Tennessee is close to the heart of “Hillbilly Heaven.”
I use that term with reverence since I lived the first 40 years of my life in northern KY which was close to the most northern rim of “Hillbilly Heaven.” I’ve been to Nashville a number of times.

Nashville like New Orleans dances to a different drummer, mainly because the drummer is a Hillbilly.

Everyone should visit Nashville at least once. The Grand Ole Opry, Country Music Hall Of Fame, Dolly Parton, and Printers Alley. 1930’s thru 1960’s Printers Alley mirrored Monmouth St in Newport KY, strip joints and gambling. Many of the owners started out as bootleggers during prohibition. I have several other Printers Alley chips not in this post. Mickey Cohen visited The Uptown Club. Read on!
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The story starts with an inquiry for the Rainbow Room chip and Printers Alley.

This chip is more than likely a floor sweeping or a sample chip. It came out of the Taylor sample chips and I would call it a maroon chip, not red like is on the order card. I do not have the Black Poodle or VooDoo chips

The chips were sent to James Floyd Barnes, died Nashville 1986 age 73. In his late teens Barnes worked in a printers shop--perhaps his introduction to Printers Alley? Barnes was associated with what was described in 1965 as a "large illegal gambling enterprise" in Printers Alley which had been in operation since the early 1950's. This place was known as the Uptown Dinner Club or Uptown Club.

Barnes had two other chip orders from Taylor sent to him at 210 Printers Alley the address of the Black Poodle order. Some ordered a week before the Black Poodle order.
At the risk of driving the price up, I am posting two more chips I need. I have other Nashville chips but these have a story to tell.

I need the 210 and “Star” chips.

My email request to the Nashville Library was to determine if 210 Printers Alley was the location of the Uptown Club--I think it probably was at least for a while
At some point, it appears the Black Poodle was at 210. The Black Poodle, Rainbow Room and VooDoo Room were all located next to each other and to the best of my knowledge, at the time the chips were ordered, were primarily strip bars.

Picture below--then and now. From what I understand, the door immediately to the right of the VooDoo led to a stairway which went to the Rainbow; to the right of the door was the Black Poodle.

Hey John Zoesch, maybe you can find the Royal Blue Palace crammed in the picture somewhere.
Could that be it, at the end of the alley.

1956 street survey map--VooDoo in 208 and Black Poodle in 210; Rainbow Room apparently located on the 2nd floor of the 210 building:

Didn't come across any evidence of gambling at the Black Poodle, VooDoo or Rainbow, however, I did see evidence that girls who worked at those places served as hostesses at the Uptown Club. Do you think maybe these chips could have been passed out at the strip clubs to steer people to the Uptown to gamble?

In 1965 Barnes and his two partners (James Washer and Robert Carney) were charged with violating several of the new Federal anti-racketeering statutes, the ones which allowed the Federal government to get involved in busting gambling enterprises if there was an interstate component.

One of the indictments against Barnes involved the fact that he had chips and dice delivered to him from out of state vendors in Chicago and Cincinnati. Sounds familiar, if you read my Biloxi articles on Rip Polous and Christy Jones, Las Vegas.
http://www.marlowcasinochips.com/links/genetrimble/genetrimble.htm

My note: Just a wild and crazy guess! Taylor Company in Chicago and Rigdon in Cincinnati were the out of state vendors.
Kingsport Times--17nov1965:

In the 50's the Uptown Club was reportedly visited often by Mickey Cohen of Los Angeles.
Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen was part of the second generation of gangsters that came after the likes of Al Capone and the old Mustache Petes. Mickey Cohen was Ben “Bugsy” Seigel’s darker half. While Bugsy dined with Hollywood’s royalty and bedded the stars, Mickey emptied their safes and broke their bones.
Oakland Tribune--06jan1960: