Good morning from sunny Belleville!

Today I would like present couple of chips from the famed Casino Tropicana. Unlike many Cuban casinos information on the Tropicana is abundant. Below my ebay links is the first paragraph of a fantastic article on this venue - a great read!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1940s-1960s-Vintage-Caribbean-Chip-CASINO-TROPICANA-Grey-Very-Rare-/201513515966?hash=item2eeb243bbe:g:xcMAAOSwX~dWqpp4

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Caribbean-1940s-1950s-5-CASINO-TROPICANA-CHIP-brown-blue-dancers-logo-/201513256854?hash=item2eeb204796:g:mWEAAOSwwNVTsqzc

In the decadent jet-set heaven of 1950s Havana, the only place to be was Tropicana, a pleasure dome where the shows (and showgirls) were dazzling, the gambling was high-stakes, and the revelers included Marlon Brando, Ernest Hemingway, Rita Hayworth, and J.F.K., to name a few. With an oral history of the club’s heyday, Jean Stein chronicles the whirl of sexual freedom, official corruption, and Mafia control that fueled the party—until the night Fidel Castro’s revolutionaries took the floor.

link to the entire article --> http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2011/09/tropicana-201109