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this is from the link in post above..

Maybe Gene or Ed can correct me but i beleive i was told that when the casino was moved (literly!) the Plantation was then called The Farm. By the way if ya ever get to see the Colonial Inn chips mentioned in this text....they are wounderfull!!!
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When Meyer Lansky arrived in Hallendale to look over the casino he learned what Kaufman probably already knew, that the Plantation was about to be put out of business. A vigilante committee, concerned with the town's growth and public image, brought an injunction against the casino, called the Plantation, as a public nuisance and had secured a judgement against the property's land deed, which forbade gambling on the property.

Lansky, always at his best in the worst situation, calmly examined the problem. He read the wording for the injunction carefully and saw that the judgement forbade gambling on a specific parcel of land, so Lansky decided to pick the casino up, place it on trucks and move it to a different parcel of land, end of problem.

It was a brilliant move but still the nagging problem of concerned citizens had to be addressed, so Lansky placed his brother Jake, the casino's new manager, in charge of corrupting the town. Unlike Meyer or Alo, Jake had already made Hollywood his home, and within weeks of being given the job, Jake had dolled out tens of thousands of dollars to the Elks, the Shiners, local hospitals.

With Lansky in control, the casino exceeded expectations and according to at least one gambling expert, the Barn may have been the biggest money-maker in the entire history of illegal casino gambling, bringing in an estimated $10 million a year between 1947 and 1949.

With the profits they earned from the Plantation, Alo and Lansky opened another casino in Hallendale, the Colonial Inn, along with a small but lucrative handbook in Fort Lauderdale that they named "The It Club" and, old habits being hard to break, Alo and Bugsy Siegel, a childhood friend of Meyers, ran a bookie operation out of the Hollywood Yacht Club, if, for no other reason, they weren't supposed to do it.

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some of the chips from Hallandale Florida!!
this is from the link in post above..
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ref the "c" mold...

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