These posts usually bring me more info in email.
I got this, after the post. Will let the source post his name if he wants to.

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In the early 1960’s, a thriving gambling community existed in underground Nashville. Across Church Street from Printers Alley was another alley. On the left corner of the alley a few steps above street level was the Zanzibar, an all night bar and general hangout. Below the Zanzibar and down a long flight of stairs was the Subway Lounge, later to become the Captains Table. It was a dine and dance club with live bands and top notch food. It was owned by Mickey Kreitner, who also owned the Zanzibar and several Printers Alley clubs, including the Brass Rail Stables.

A block down that alley was a large brick building that started in the alley and fronted on Third Avenue. At the back of the building was a concrete loading dock with a roll up door that had been sealed shut at one side.
Opposite that was a large steel door with an eyehole in it. To get in, you knocked on the door and someone eyeballed you through the eyehole. If you were known or otherwise acceptable, the door was opened by a man about the size of the door and you entered. You went through a room that was apparently a dining room with tables and booths and no activity. There was almost no light in the room.

At the back of the room was another door with another eyehole. The same procedure got you into the back room. A bar ran half the length of the left side of the room. The front right side had a blackjack table. A large Vegas style crap table ran down the middle of the room, opposite the bar, and there were several tables and booths in the back corner. It was known as the Uptown Club. Just like Vegas, you got your drinks and food free while you were playing, all served at the table by a beautiful waitress, usually a stripper from one of the Printers Alley clubs, getting in extra work.

The top levels of Nashville society, legal or otherwise, were always there. Of the many I saw were Mickey Kreitner, noted restaurateur, Kermit Stengel, head of Crescent Amusement Company, Joel Vradenburg, who owned or co-owned several Printers Alley clubs, Skull Schulman, who owned the Rainbow Room in Printers Alley, and Jimmy Washer, the owner of the club and the head of Nashvilles gambling community.

Washer was a quiet, smallish, graying man who dressed impeccably if a bit on the ostentatious side. I saw him once, standing in front of Loew’s Vendome Theatre on Church Street, wearing an ankle length camels hair overcoat with two diamond stickpins in his lapels. He had on a Palm Beach white Fedora and was carrying a cane with a silver head on it. The silver was probably genuine.
He ran downtown Nashville gambling.

His only competition was the Automobile Business Club, known as the ABC, in Bordeaux. ( Gene note: I have an ABC hub chip that we can't find the record card for)It was owned by Al Alessio and had the same facilities and plush interiors as the Uptown Club. To my knowledge, Washer and Alessio had no wars over their territories or clientele.

Ater in the 1960’s, for whatever reason, the Uptown Club was shut down and the building was sold to an entrepreneur, I think Shug Baggott. He gutted the interior and built the first and best Nashville Disco, D’Scene And Zodiac Lounge.