Licensed card room owned in the 1950s by R. N. Critcher, and managed by William R. Simmons until it closed. Licensed for six card tables, the maximum allowed in Ventura County. Also known as the "Red Barn Bar-B-Que and Card Room". Previously this address was the location of the "Cairo Club", also a licensed card room.
T. R. King sold over 7000 of the small crown chips in eight denominations/colors to the Red Barn Club, Roy Grundy and later J. (Dusty) Bowen, 1285 Ventura Blvd., Ventura, CA, between 1955 and 1962.
Advertisement from the 1963 Ojai City Yellow Pages, under "Clubs". |