and chips, and logo'd uniforms, and door handles, and matchbooks, and swizzle sticks, and plastic coin-fill bags (now obsolete ), and...

And the chips arrived broken...uh, sorry, make that the broken chips arrived safeley! Thank you soooo much!! And the jar was an added surprise treat...thanks!! I think you're right, maybe a stack of whole chips in the middle will fill enough space...I'll play over the weekend.

There's actually at least 2 variations of the Golden Nugget Gaming Guide that Rick pictured. The front covers are the same, the back cover of each is shown below (if I remember to resize and attach the scan! ). The date is on the first page of each guide.

The guide that includes race horse betting, bingo, race horse keno, faro bank, and chuck-a-luck is dated 1948.

The other one is dated 1949.

There might be other versions, too, but these are the 2 that we have.