I heard a similar story about shipment to Winterhaven, where there once were a string of cardrooms all on the main street, catering no doubt to visitors from Arizona and other locations East who "finally at long last" found places to play cards in.* There is today a Mickey's Hangover Roost in Scottsdale, AZ, and for some reason I thought the chips eventually made their way back to that location. The big question remains whether the chips were ever played in Winterhaven, even for a short time, which might establish them as "Californian."

* My Florida 4th grade teacher, Ms. Lawson, would smack my hand with a ruler if she found me ending a sentence with a preposition. No idea what fate might have befallen me had she seen the sentences were about gambling, too. Oooouchhhh!