| Card room originally operated by Robert (Bobby) Garcia. It opened with 15 card tables. The club temporarily skirted a city prohibition on gambling by operating as a private club in which only due paying members were allowed to play cards.
Garcia previously operated the nearby illegal "Cove Club" and the "Double OO Ranch" casino.
T. R. King sold 17,700 of these small crown chips in eight denominations/colors to the Silver Palm Club, (c/o of Bobby Garcia, and later Rez Zachary and later yet Mike Dorchinecz) Palm Springs, California, between 1958 and 1967.
Photograph from 2/12/1958 (The Desert Sun). |
