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ITEM VIEW: CG155787
155 I Street
Crescent City, California 95531 MAP
Type: Card Room
707-464-5054
Status: Closed
Open: c. 1961, Close: 1996

Bar and licensed card room originally owned by Everett Holbrook. Holbrook previously owned an "Everett's Club" at 784 9th Street, Arcata, California during the 1950s. By the early 1970s, Miller (Joey) Wier was the owner. Eastman (1998) reports that gaming ended in 1996, although the bar was open until 2012.

According to The Gaming Table (2017), the Portland Card Co. (Portland, OR) shipped the "EV" Block font hot stamp SqInCr-mold chips in three colors/denominations to Everett Hallbrook [sic], 290 I Street, Crescent City, CA, in 1966. The Portland Card Co. later shipped the "Everett's" hot stamp SqInCr-mold chips in four denominations to Joey Wier c/o Pizza King, 1348 Front Street, Crescent City, CA in 1981.

Graphic from a matchbook posted below, and photograph from Google StreetView (2007).

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CG155787 Obsolete
Denom: $1
Added: 2016-01-12
Color: Purple
Inserts: 3 Black
Mold: SqInCr
Inlay: HS
Contributed by: Richard Edward Staeffler

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