This is a good time to hit the back button if you don't have an interest in chip history or have a few extra minutes. Long post.

Georgia. I love peaches. No 25, halfway on our trip across the illegal USA.

As we have seen so far “The Era Of The Illegals” was prolific across the USA. If you have noticed the dates of the chips shown so far, you will see most of the operators of the illegals came after the end of prohibition. Bootleggers have to make $ also.

I spent 6 months at Ft Benning in 1958 in boot camp. As an RA we took a lot of heat from the draftees.

We were trained as a unit, the 3rd Infantry Division, and the last of what the US Army called a “Gyro Unit” to Germany. A Gyro unit was an entire division packing up arms, trucks, tanks, half tracks, etc and gyroing together. We replaced the 10th Airborne. We spent a looooooog time on a bucket of bolts called the Alexander M Patch. It was miserable. I might have been the only GI on the ship that didn’t get sea sick.

Phoenix City, Alabama was a hub for illegals in 1958 and off limits to GI’s from Ft Benning. I managed to visit it but sad to say I was not collecting chips as yet. That would come 4 years later in Newport KY.

Enough of that!
Colonial Club
Augusta
1941

Ansley Hotel
Atlanta
Delivered to Joe Hogg
1936

Gordon Hotel
Macon
Frank McMolin
1935

Another hand written record.

Sylcree Club
5 Points
1940’s
Dougherty-Worth county lines-1/2 between Albany and Sylvester, GA

There is a lot of research on these chips. David Spragg and I found 12 different associated chips. Mike Vuolo found 7 more different ones. Both have the chips for sale or trade. There are 19 different chips with different forms of SC and several associated clubs in the Five Points, GA find.
I am copying a small part of it below.

The Sylcree Club was located at Five Points, on the Dougherty-Worth county line halfway between Albany and Sylvester, Georgia. The Southern Belle Lounge was close by. 'RWW' had a piece of the action in both places at least. The 'SC' chips are from the Sylcree and the 'S' from Southern Belle. Seems like RWW was a real player in this bustling area and his monogrammed chips could well have been used wherever he had a piece of the action. This article, by Vic Smith, an Albany resident for 27 years from the 1950's to 1970's describes some of the illegal clubs operating in the area around 1958. (The text of the article is reproduced at the bottom of the page in case this link gets deleted by the newspaper in the future)
http://www.bcstandard.com/news/2005/0915/Editorials/006.html
Fortunately, this article was only written during the summer of 2005, and through 'Poke McHenry' of The Standard, I was able to get in touch with Vic and obtain confirmation of the use of the 'SC', 'S', and 'RWW' chips. Here is Vic's reply via Mr McHenry:

the use of the 'SC', 'S', and 'RWW' chips. Here is Vic's reply via Mr McHenry:
"David,
I emailed your scan via Vic's son and he just called me up. As far as he can say, the two 'SC' chips were from the Sylcree chips. He thinks these were mainly confiscated in a sheriff's raid. It would have been around 1958. The other Sylcree chips were used when they reopened shortly afterwards. He still has a few chips lying around from his Albany days and is going to attempt to find them one day and bring to me so I can send you a picture. He thought there were more different ones than you showed.
He says your 'S' chip is from the Southern Belle Club almost next door.
Vic was surprised you found this article and not an older one where he described his Friendship with RWW Grydski, Grodski (or similar), the local operator of the two Five Point joints and more.
He was unaware of RWW (as he was known) having any chips made for himself but as private games often took place at his house it was possible. Vic said the stakes were too high for him to participate. RWW passed some 12 months ago with no living kin stateside.
The chips marked 'BG' mean nothing to him.
Vic suggests if you need detailed research you would have to contact local libraries and go through old newsprint if they have it as he cant really remember much more now. Club 'busts' always made the headlines, usually when a new Sheriff hit town
Vic hopes you liked his article and now have some useful information.
He has chips he kept from other clubs in the Albany area which I will try to get info/pictures on but he stresses they are not for sale so don't ask!
Glad to be of help
Thanks, Poke"

The (remaining) BG chips are confirmed from the Taylor records as follows:
BG is 'Barcus & Graham', seemingly partners who operated two (at least) illegal clubs in Georgia and South Carolina.
(Copy of the text in Vic Smith's article in The Standard, September 15, 2005)

The longer I stay away from this place, the more vivid my memories of it become. Maybe this is because I was an Albany resident for 27 years- the longest I ever lived at any place.

My last trip here was a few weeks ago, to see a relative who was hospitalized only a block or so from the house I owned from 1956-1977. I couldn’t resist driving past 700 16th Ave., where still stands the mighty oak tree that meant so much to me and my family.

It still shelters the cozy brick house, which looks almost the same as it did when we and all the neighbors were young and growing up along with our children, never realizing what a good life we had.
Someone has closed in the carport of our hold home, and it is being used now for a beauty shop.

Little do those ladies getting their hair done know that their snippets are falling where 10,000 fish were cleaned...well, more or less.
When I settled in Albany nearly 40 years ago, my coming coincided with the start of the greatest and longest running period of growth on any place I ever heard of. One of the foremost reasons for this was that town was by far the most wide-open, freewheeling, live-and-let-live and thoroughly enjoyable place I ever had any experience with.
Albany, like to young couples on our block, was growing up toward the full vigor of its prime years. The old television beer commercial- about going around only once, and living life with full and unbridled gusto– only faintly describes the Albany of 35 years ago.

Of all the unforgettable nights I knew in that Albany, one stands out as if it had just taken place.
The night came after my wife’s sister Lillian and her husband James Gresham, of Orlando popped in one Saturday afternoon for a visit.
"I hear," James said to me, "that this is a wild town, and you can show me why. Is that right?"
"It is," I said, "and I can. Let’s go."

I won’t bother you with all the details. But to warm up, I took old James downtown for stop-ins at the Panther Room, the Hole-in-the-Wall, the Inner Sanctum, Freddie’s Office and one or two joints of less couth.
Then we drifted out on the northside to the Paramount Club and dropped back by the Black Cat, and thence to the southside and Club 19, an award-winning bloody bucket among notorious bloody buckets.

We might have had a wee nip or two along the way.
Everywhere we went, I was greeted with wild enthusiasm by barmaids, waiters, crap-table and blackjack operators, and dozens of patrons, all of whom declared their undying devotion to me and accepted James as one of the family, if he were a buddy of mine.

By this time, old James had gone far past mere flabbergastation and was nearing total shock.

But the night was yet young, so we drove out eastward to the Southern Belle Lounge at Five Points, to another ultracordial reception, and from there to the Sylcree, an infamous night spot on the Dougherty-Worth county line halfway between Albany and Sylvester.

Here we got into a rather profitable blackjack game, and to this day I have- somewhere in my house- a pocketful of one-dollar Sylcree chips from that night.
The beautiful climax to the sensational night came when, en route home about 3 a.m., I made a left turn and almost clipped off the front end of a police cruiser waiting for a light to change.

We went a block and got caught by another light. The police car backed up the entire length of the block to confront us, and James was about to die with fright, with visions of jail dancing in his head.
"Vic!" said the patrolman. "You almost hit my car! You all right? Want me to drive you home?"
"Naw," I said. "Thanks, but it was the fog [it was a clear night] made me get too close. I’m OK."
"Al right, if you’re sure. Take care." With that, the officer went on his way.
James and Lillian have been dead for years now. But for as long as he lived, James never could quite believe what he’d seen and heard that night.
It was a routine night in old-time Albany.