Do you know where the name "Owl café" came from.
“Owl on a branch”
Cook & Wickstrom
530 Market St.
San Francisco, CA

I have a lot of research on these chips, even had them removed from TCK as Battle Mountain.

No where is the "Owl Café" mention.
Been looking into the Owl hub chip. I haven’t been able to find any info that would make me
think that there is a connection between the guys in San Francisco and the guys in Nevada.

The chips were delivered to Cook & Wickstrom, 530 Market St., San Francisco, CA.
Thomas William Cook & Alfred Duke Wickstrom, both natives of the Bay Area, operated
a cigar store at 530 Market St. from around 1936 to 1937 (maybe as early as 1935 and
as late as 1938). By 1938 they were no longer partners. In 1938 Cook moved to nearby
San Mateo where he died 11 years later at age 65 (all the years he resided in San Mateo
he listed his occupation as a cigar merchant; at the time of his death he operated a cigar
counter in a large office building in downtown San Francisco).

My note: Cook & Wickstrom company was in business at the outside 1935-38. That dates the production and delivery of the Owl chips to a 4 year period. Cook & Wickstrom 1935-38. TCR Owl Club use 1956. Big stretch, IMO.

Wickstrom continued operating a cigar store at 530 Market St. until around 1942. In the late
1940’s he moved to nearby Millbrae and started a coin operated device company called
Wickstrom Music Co. Shortly afterwards he ran a coin operated device company called
Acme Music Co. Acme placed juke boxes and “multiple-odd bingo pin ball machines” in
Bay Area businesses. In the 1950’s Wickstrom moved north to Sonoma County. At some
point he moved to the Phoenix suburb of Mesa where he died in 1984 aged 84.

In 1937, when Cook & Wickstrom were still in business, pin ball machines were confiscated
from the rear of their downtown cigar store on Market St.: