Nice chips... ... .... Let me sneak in my web page for the old Agua Caliente Hotel-Casino, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (1928-1935), once the greatest hotel-casino resort in the Western Hemisphere (and maybe the world).
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/AguaCalienteChips.htm
There you will find chips I need and have for trade and sale.
I have links to four YouTube videos that show the old place. Particularly enjoyable are ones to the Pat O'Brien-Dolores del Rio-Busby Berkeley Hollywood movie "In Caliente" (1935), and one of the world's most famous horse races: Phar Lap's last victory. To see those video clips, go to my page and look in these paragraphs for the links:
aguacalientehistoricalsociety (http://aguacalientehistoricalsociety.com/agua_caliente_1929-1935): "The rich Agua Caliente Handicap lured the famous New Zealander, Phar Lap for its 1932 renewal. Phar Lap made the 12,000-mile journey from Australia to the United States earlier that year. Phar Lap ran into the history books as one of racing's top horses with his dramatic win, as he circled the entire field from dead last with ¾’s of a mile to go and held off American Derby winner, Reveille Boy. " (Click here to see a newsreel of that famous race at the Agua Caliente Racetrack, courtesy of YouTube! )Click here to see the trailer to the Pat O'Brien-Dolores del Rio-Busby Berkeley Hollywood movie "In Caliente" (1935), which was filmed on location at the Agua Caliente and shows a brief scene of the casino near the start of the trailer. .... ... Another clip from the movie -- great fun but not of the Agua Caliente casino, for sure! -- Dolores Del Rio's energetic "Muchacha" number, a' la Busby Berkeley. It must be a stage show within the movie: click here and enjoy! ... .... Here is another YouTube clip: good first few minutes of still pictures (ariel view of the resort; close-ups of everything including the famous Gold Bar room), piano music and Spanish words. I urge you to vamoose at the 3:22 minute mark to avoid the boring remainder of the clip -- the filling of the resort's Olympic swimming pool!
Actually, it is pretty easy to put the links here:
¶ trailer to the movie -- nice -- http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=104244
¶ page with two chips -- the horse race and the Dolores del Rio chip -- http://inoldlasvegas.com/agua_caliente.html
¶ horse race again -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bROtR5ivyZw
¶ the old resort (first 3:22 minutes are good) -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQbXipjSYBo
Robert
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