First of all, Harvey Fuller was not infallible, and we shouldn't treat every stray thought and opinion he ever scribbled down on a cocktail napkin as gospel.

There has been a lot of speculation and interpolation based on incomplete information, and just because some people wrote down such speculation or even published it in booklets or blogs, does not make it a reliable historic fact.

And just because two people have similar names (or a person has the same initials as an unrelated casino) does not mean we should jump to conclusions and assume they are connected in any way. (I have seen many postings on the Internet confusing California businessman George Canon, owner of George's Gateway Club in Stateline, with Nevada Senator Howard Cannon, even though their names have different spellings). Just because you read something in a newsletter or a blog doesn't mean the person who wrote it knew what they were talking about.

Here are the facts that I know, based on five years of intensive research on the history of Stateline, including looking through thousands of period newspapers, Gaming Commission records, and Douglas County deed records, as well as hundreds of historic postcards, photographs, film negatives, and slides taken of the region over the past 80 years.

1. The Main Entrance Casino was open in the late 1930s and early '40s, between Carl Tychsen's Stateline Market and Clyde Beecher's Nevada Club. It was never inside, or part of, or associated with the Stateline Country Club, which was two buildings over.

2. The Main Entrance Casino was managed by Charles Silver and George "Frenchy" Perry.

3. Around the same time, Calvin Custer was the proprietor of the Stateline Country Club in the late '30s.

4. According to the county clerk's office in Reno, Calvin Custer was born Carlos Custer Kulp, and had his name legally changed to Calvin Custer in 1931 (as stated in a front-page article in the December 2, 1931, issue of the Nevada State Journal). Clearly, he would have no relatives in the late 1930s with the last name of Custer, since that was not even his real last name.

5. There has never been anyone named Miles E. Custer associated with any business or property in Stateline, Nevada.

6. Given the note that someone recently posted (assuming it is reliable), showing that the "MEC" chips were sent to George Perry in 1939, I think it's obvious that the chip's initials were for his Main Entrance Casino, which was a separate, independent casino not connected or related to any other clubs.