Wow, is that book on Gardena available anywhere? In the 1970’s, I read a story about the Gardena clubs in a gambling magazine that I cannot recall the name of, but I started traveling there as a side trip to my Vegas jaunts. It was trippy. Players dealing their own games, and you paid by the half hour. As a result, those draw and lowball games moved like lightening, and if you tried to take some time to squeese out a flush draw, some old lady would yell at you something like, “We’re paying for time, Sonny”, LOL. As I recall, with the original 6 or 7 clubs, they were all closed one day a week, but they were all on a different day, so there were always a lot of clubs open. Think I played in all the clubs except the Rainbow and Monterey, maybe the first to close? When I moved to Southern California in 1989, the first place I lived was Hawthorne, a long walk from Gardena. Only places open by that time were Horseshoe, Normandie, and Eldorado, and I think Horseshoe closed a month after I moved there. If I’m remembering correctly, the Asian games came first to Gardena. One of the big clubs, the Bike, I think started dealing 7 Stud in direct violation of the law, and the police actually came and issued a “cease and desist”, but it got the legal wheels moving to the point that eventually all poker was legalized state-wide. Thanks for jogging my memories of this, Rich.