| Originally owned by Ben Greenblatt and Jerry Kosseff, and later just Greenblatt. Cabazon's first licensed card room opened with 19 card tables. The "Big Casino" downsized into a "Little Casino" on the main highway to Palm Springs in 1958. The main casino burned to the ground in December 1958, under suspicious circumstances. The "Little Casino" closed in 1959, when it was ruled that it could not use the original card room license (see "Archive").
T. R. King sold 14,000 of these small crown chips in seven denominations to the Cabazon Club, Cabazon, California, in 1957 and 1958.
Advertisement from 5/30/1958 (The Desert Sun). Newspaper photograph of the entrance of the main club from 12/12/1957 (Daily Record), a week before opening. |
