Well, this story just won't die.
This post is posted to the original thread if you want to read the entire story.

New info added on 11/19/10.

My friend of the hobby saw the Chinese Char translation sent to us by MR S and his friend. In my opinion the ABC chips finally have a Club name.

Chinese Char Translation: See original post for translation.

Top: Ngan - Silver
Bottom: Wun - Bowl

The Silver Bowl Club.
Broderick, CA

This one has probably been the longest and most fascinating research I have ever been involved with. Many people jumped in and just kept adding to the story of the ABC chips. I am beginning to wonder if the story will ever end. If you read the entire article the story started with a bad ID in Reno, NV and wound through Sacramento, CA and Las Vegas, NV, back to Reno, NV, and now ends in Broderick, CA.

I bet I left something out of that statement.

And now what might be “The End Of The Story.” Maybe!

ABC

Saw your post about the Chinese on the chips translating into “Silver Bowl.” In the 1930’s there was a popular nightclub in Broderick called the Silver Bowl Cabaret. Broderick, just across the river from Sacramento and in a different county, was where the gambling house Pechart and Bottaro were associated with in 1927 was located.

The Silver Bowl Cabaret closed around 1938, “but around 1946, at the same location, the Silver Bowl Club opened (around the same time the chips were ordered).”

Don’t know if the chips have any connection with the place, but I thought I’d throw it out there as a possibility.

My note, in my opinion, he nailed it.

Its location was not far from Argonaut Liquor--drive a few blocks west on Eye St., cross the bridge and you’re there. Below is an ad from 1934.

After the Silver Bowl Cabaret closed in the late 30’s, one of the proprietors, Frank Farrell, moved to Reno and opened a place called “The Colombo” in 1938.

My note: I think the Colombo in Reno must have been a cabaret also. I can’t find anything in Fuller or TGT that suggests a gaming license in 1938-39 or so.

My note: This ad is from the Silver Bowl Cabaret 1930’s, not to be confused with the Silver Bowl Club that opened on the same spot in 1946 and is the ABC chip attribution, I am making.

Keep watching for a very unexpected attributition for the B Chan Oakland, CA Chinese Char chip in "Illegal Of The Day-California 3 post. It also has more twists than a snake.