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This cream or ivory hot-stamp chip is a Jones-mold, nondenomination chip from the New Southport Club in Louisiana. They are hot-stamped with New Southport Club in the center. The New Southport Club was located in Jefferson Parish, just outside the city limits of New Orleans, off the Mississippi River Road at 1300 Monticello Street. In the 1930s Carlos Marcello, "the purported organized crime king of New Orleans," took over a building called the Jefferson Inn and renamed it the New Southport Club. It was a lavish illegal casino and night spot famous in the 1930s to the 1950s. It is the only gambling building which has survived in a 3 block area and is now being refurbished as the Southport Hall, a night club and dance hall. |
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