Special chips were made to promote David Cassidy's appearance at Morongo Casino in summer of 2015, one of his last concerts. Apparently, he forgot the words to his songs and claimed to be suffering from Alzheimer's. A "fan" got up on stage and punched him. This did not go over well with casino security and essentially nobody "Got Happy." The chips supposedly circulated for a few months and were then gathered by the casino, returned to the manufacturer, and destroyed. Not a single chip is known to have gotten out. Apparently gamblers & Partridge Family fans are mutually exclusive?

All I know about the chips is what a Pit Boss told me in early 2016, "They had a little bit of green on them." The casino personnel (a poker room chip runner, a couple of dealers, the pit boss) all said they had to work late a couple of days before New Year's Eve to go through all the $5 racks and cull all the oddball $5 chips (Jay Leno, Lunar New Year, and a couple of other concert chips were similarly pulled) and were not happy about the memories. I did manage to turn up two Jay Leno chips which were either overlooked in the purge or taken out and returned to the gaming floor by players.

Missed the Partridge Family Bus? Awwwww - don't cry, kids - you can still hop aboard and watch the punch-out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOO6JQ928Bg

This probably is not the only such chip story in the Golden State. Some day I may compile a "Chip Guide of Unknown Chips" where all the photos will be blank spaces!