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ITEM VIEW: CG276958
404 Mountain View
Poplar, California
Type: Card Room
Status: Closed
Open: 1963, Close: 1960s

Bar and licensed card room originally operated by Henry Thompson. Thompson was shot and killed in the card room in January 1964, reportedly by a customer he had pressed to re-pay a gambling debt (see Archive).

T. R. King sold 800 of these small crown chips in four denominations to The Red Wheel, P. O. Box 3184, Poplar, California, on 1/22/1963.

Listing (2nd from top) from the 1962 Kings and Tulare County Yellow Pages, under "Taverns" (Library of Congress).
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CG276958
Issued: 1963
Added: 2022-01-15
Contributed by: David Sarles

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