Get me a picture, and I'll put it on my web pages of Agua Cliente:
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/AguaCalienteChips.htm
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/AguaCalienteMorePics.htm
I just found this picture -- 1930 Agua Caliente photo entitled "The Casino Gambling Hall." .
Here are some modern pictures of the area, few remains of the old casino-hotel resort:
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Jon Voight throwing dice in "The Champ" (1979). "Billy Flynn, an ex boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J. over which he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven years ago. T.J. worships The Champ who is now working on his come-back in order to give his boy a better future. But suddenly Annie shows up again. ... ...." per IMDb.
See instead the more famous 1931 Wallace Beery-Jackie Cooper version of "The Champ." That one takes place, in part, at the Agua Caliente Hotel-Casino resort in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Some scenes in the movie are at the gambling Mecca.
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/StillsB_OthMaleAcs.htm
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