Recently I came across this book on McGill with some neat photos of the bar. It even had a chapter on
Norm Linnell who tended bar there for over 50 years. I would always stop in on my trips to Eastern
Nevada and talk to him about the old days. He said they had roulette and 21 back in the 40s and 50s,
the club's glory years. I remember there was a poker table in the back that had a cigar box with generic
chips that I rummaged through many times looking for a McGill club chip. Never did find one.
The old Brunswick bar was the main attraction. It came out of the Antler bar in Ely when it was
torn down in 1944. McGill was a company town and they decided which bars could do business.
Others included the Victory Club, Copper Club, and Brunswick Billiard Hall amoung others.
Illegal activities such as underage drinking, drugs and hookers were taboo and relegated to outlying
settlements like Ragtown and Riepetown. I remember talking to an old timer in Riepetown in 1969
who was one of it's last residents before it was consumed by open pit mining. He lived in an old hotel,
quite possibly the one shown in the photo (Miners Club).
I don't have any info on the Kens chip. Obviously a fantasy piece. Maybe somebody does.