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Auction for 400 chips from Casino Magic which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. One of my casino contacts rescued them after the hurricane and the rest were buried, per instructions from the gaming commission. I asked him if he knew where the others chips were buried and this is his response.
Funny you should ask, Jim. The EPA asked Penn National’s lawyers the same question – they wanted to come after either the State or the Property for burying them so close to the waterline – but they didn’t know exactly where they were buried. I was there - we used backhoes to dig a large hole about 15 or 20 feet deep, roughly where their current Employee Parking lot is now, maybe just North of the employee lot – the chips & tokens went into the hole, and about 3 cement trucks rolled in and dumped their entire loads of cement in – and the backhoes buried it back up with dirt.
EPA came asking questions about 2009 – I was working in St. Louis with the Isle when a Penn attorney reached out – nobody at the property could seem to remember where the hole was. I didn’t volunteer any info… With the cement encasing them – there won’t ever be a “discovery” of these chips – they are gone to the world except for those that were picked up out of the parking lot. I’ve seen a stray chip or two on E-Bay over the years, but not much…
100 - $100 Secondary Chips (new)
100 - $500 Secondary Chips (new)
100 - $1000 Secondary Chips (new)
90 - $500 Primary Chips
10 - $1000 Primary Chips
Funny you should ask, Jim. The EPA asked Penn National’s lawyers the same question – they wanted to come after either the State or the Property for burying them so close to the waterline – but they didn’t know exactly where they were buried. I was there - we used backhoes to dig a large hole about 15 or 20 feet deep, roughly where their current Employee Parking lot is now, maybe just North of the employee lot – the chips & tokens went into the hole, and about 3 cement trucks rolled in and dumped their entire loads of cement in – and the backhoes buried it back up with dirt.
EPA came asking questions about 2009 – I was working in St. Louis with the Isle when a Penn attorney reached out – nobody at the property could seem to remember where the hole was. I didn’t volunteer any info… With the cement encasing them – there won’t ever be a “discovery” of these chips – they are gone to the world except for those that were picked up out of the parking lot. I’ve seen a stray chip or two on E-Bay over the years, but not much…
100 - $100 Secondary Chips (new)
100 - $500 Secondary Chips (new)
100 - $1000 Secondary Chips (new)
90 - $500 Primary Chips
10 - $1000 Primary Chips