Three Indiana chips today.

The 1st is a home game chip, IMO.

The 2nd is a new to me illegal casino.

The 3rd one will be a new illeagal casino if we can get the name of the bar or restaurant he ran in Evansville. Anyone close to Evansville that wants to stop by the library and check out what was at 301 Oakley in 1945-1956, will receive one free PD chip from me.

Enough of that:

Indiana:

WBR

I have had two different people email me in the last 2 weeks, and say the WBR chip was being sold as West Baden Resort close to French Lick, IN.

I got the WBR yellow one in 2003 from Ed Hertel. Not sure if Ed made the record card from an email ID or if it is one of Allan Meyers homemade cards.

From my friend of the hobby.

WBR
The only W.B. Richeson I could find in Sullivan, Indiana in 1945 was William Bogard Richeson, died Sullivan 1956 age 76--he would have been 65 when the chips were ordered. Most of Richeson's life he worked as a coal miner. Couldn't find anything gambling related.

My note:
W.B. Richeson was a real person, a coal miner, and no connection to gambling or West Baden Resort.
IMO this is a Home game chip.

LKC

I got this one last week in a group of 15 new hubs. It was the only one I had an ID card on.
I agree with my friend might be the first womans name I’ve seen on an order card.

I wonder how many chickens the guy was trying to steal, when Marie shot him, 4 times, and killed him?

First time I've seen an order card with a delivery address to a woman--I'm sure there are others but it must be kind of unusual. To make it even more unusual is that Marie was African-American (born 1918).

The delivery address on the card was Marie and her husband Herman's residential address; the address was associated with the Jeter family from around the late 1940's up till the 1990's.

I couldn't find any info on the Lock & Key club. However, Herman & Marie operated a restaurant/juke joint in Muncie in the 50's and 60's called the Chicken Shack (one source called it the "notorious Chicken Shack").

A Chicken Shack was operating into the 90's, but I don't know if the Jeter's were running it. In 1961 Herman Jeter had an altercation with a patron whom he had to forcibly remove from the restaurant--during this altercation Marie shot and killed the patron.

I think Herman may still be alive at age 92. His son Herman, Jr., age 60, appears to be living in Indianapolis.

He has a company named Jeter & Associates Cleaning and Hauling. I see three numbers for this business; don't know if any are good: Numbers deleted.

PD

J.D. Watson
310 Oakley St
Evansville, IN
1,700 chips.
Sorry cannot upload the record card at this time.

James David Watson around 1945 opened up a restaurant/bar at 301 Oakley.
The building it was housed in was on the north-east corner of Oakely & Franklin. It's now a parking lot. Unfortunately, that's about all I could come up with on this one.

The few references I saw simply named the place Jas. D. Watson.

One free chip to anyone that can get me the name of the restaurant/bar at 301 Oakley, Evansville. It could be any time, 1945-1956.