Update on North Dakota, NOT:

This is posted in an older thread, If you want to go back and read it.

Ok, you guys beat me up pretty good over that North Dakota ID.

What can I say except I was wrong!

I should have looked in TGT before I posted. If so I could have posted it as Billings, Montana.
NOT!!!! TGT is wrong also.

My excuses:
Even though I got the chip 17 years ago, I was old!

I mentioned that many of the circuit poker dealers and players brought me chips from their home areas in those days. Maybe I let that pretty little dealer flit her eyes at me and did not remember right on what she told me. I was pretty good at jotting info down, but working 14 or so hours a day for 35 days in a row is what made me old.

Maybe I got 2 chips that day. Does that mean I have the info mixed up? Maybe I have a North Dakota chip listed as Washington, also?

Oh never mind! I was wrong!

Here is “The Rest Of The Story.”

My “Friend Of The Hobby” saw you guys beating me up and came to my rescue without being asked. What A Guy.

Washington:
New Elliott Tavern:
1203 Jackson Street
Seattle, Washington.

Saw this on TheChipBoard--whoever said Seattle was right. The New Elliott Tavern was located at 1203 Jackson Street. Opened sometime in the early 40's; in the 30's the location housed a place called the Black and Tan Club in the basement (had gambling).

Stephen Eugene Nenno, born 1911 in Mankato, MN, moved to Seattle in the early 1940's where he had a place called the 19th Hole Tavern.

Not sure when he was associated with the New Elliott--probably in the 50's. By the early 60's Nenno had moved to Long Beach, CA where in 1990 his wife Staza died.

Staza was born and raised in Williston, North Dakota and married Nenno sometime in the late 30's early 40's. A few years after her death, Nenno moved back to Minnesota where he died at Elk River in 2000.

Thought the ND & MN connections may help explain how the lady who gave you the chips said they were from ND. (my note: Doubtful I can get away with that excuse. )

Here's a pic from 1937--New Elliott Tavern was located where Chikata Drugs is (building still there today):