Time has come to move my Everleigh Club thread from Chipptalk to PCF to make things easier to update. My first order was from ASM before the company was sold to Red Ott and moved to Las Vegas. Then I ordered an add-on from ASM Vegas. Then, last month, I received my order of 1000 $1 secondary chips with 3U spots from CPC.
A few notes on how I came to colors and spots. There are many beautiful custom sets that look like they could be from an actual casino. Cali colors, Vegas colors. I came at the colors from a different direction. Since my theme isn't a casino, instead of trying to create casino chips, I decided to make chips I like using colors that I like, only loosely constrained by traditional rules/colors. I love black chips. Hundos see very little use in the games I play in, so I decided to use black as the work horse $1. The $100 doesnt see much play, but I liked the color of money (green) as the $100.
In reality we have had very little use for the $10 chip and I wish, in hindsight, that I would have just bought two more racks of $5 instead of the two racks of $10, but c'est la vie.
A little about the real Everliegh Club:
At the end of the Victorian period, the Everleigh Club was the most luxurious brothel in the country and a mansion made from two brownstones with over 50 rooms with the best the most luxurious appointments possible, including silk curtains, oriental rugs, mirrored ceilings, mahogany tables, gold rimmed china and silverware, a $15,000 gold leaf piano, a library, an art gallery featuring nudes in gold frames, and $650 gold cuspidors. Ne expense was spared. In that period, the near south side (the club was at 2133 S. Dearborn) had an area called "the Levee" where most of the city's brothels were located. The two Everleigh sisters owned the club, catered to rich men from all over the world. Drinking champagne from a woman's shoe supposedly started from a trip to the Everleigh Club by Prince Heinrich of Prussia (Kaiser Wilhelm's brother).
The club employed 15 to 25 cooks and maids.[10] Gourmet meals featured iced clam juice, caviar, pheasants, ducks, geese, artichokes, lobster, fried oysters, devilled crabs, pecans and bonbons. There were three orchestras, and musicians played constantly, usually on the piano accompanied by strings. Publishing houses would publicize new songs by having them played at the Everleigh Club. The house was heated with steam in the winter and cooled with electric fans in the summer.
In an era when a beer cost a nickel, the Everleigh sisters charged $12 for a bottle of champagne. Dinners started at $50 a person -- without female company. A night at the Everleigh could cost $200, at a time when the average person's weekly pay was $6. The Club operated freely due to the money the Everleigh sisters gave police and aldermen. Eventually, notoriety and social pressure from social reformer/activists caused Mayor Carter Harrison, Jr. to order it shut down on October 24, 1911. The Everlieghs shut the doors and left with more than $1 million in cash, jewelry, stocks and bonds.
A few notes on how I came to colors and spots. There are many beautiful custom sets that look like they could be from an actual casino. Cali colors, Vegas colors. I came at the colors from a different direction. Since my theme isn't a casino, instead of trying to create casino chips, I decided to make chips I like using colors that I like, only loosely constrained by traditional rules/colors. I love black chips. Hundos see very little use in the games I play in, so I decided to use black as the work horse $1. The $100 doesnt see much play, but I liked the color of money (green) as the $100.
In reality we have had very little use for the $10 chip and I wish, in hindsight, that I would have just bought two more racks of $5 instead of the two racks of $10, but c'est la vie.
A little about the real Everliegh Club:
At the end of the Victorian period, the Everleigh Club was the most luxurious brothel in the country and a mansion made from two brownstones with over 50 rooms with the best the most luxurious appointments possible, including silk curtains, oriental rugs, mirrored ceilings, mahogany tables, gold rimmed china and silverware, a $15,000 gold leaf piano, a library, an art gallery featuring nudes in gold frames, and $650 gold cuspidors. Ne expense was spared. In that period, the near south side (the club was at 2133 S. Dearborn) had an area called "the Levee" where most of the city's brothels were located. The two Everleigh sisters owned the club, catered to rich men from all over the world. Drinking champagne from a woman's shoe supposedly started from a trip to the Everleigh Club by Prince Heinrich of Prussia (Kaiser Wilhelm's brother).
The club employed 15 to 25 cooks and maids.[10] Gourmet meals featured iced clam juice, caviar, pheasants, ducks, geese, artichokes, lobster, fried oysters, devilled crabs, pecans and bonbons. There were three orchestras, and musicians played constantly, usually on the piano accompanied by strings. Publishing houses would publicize new songs by having them played at the Everleigh Club. The house was heated with steam in the winter and cooled with electric fans in the summer.
In an era when a beer cost a nickel, the Everleigh sisters charged $12 for a bottle of champagne. Dinners started at $50 a person -- without female company. A night at the Everleigh could cost $200, at a time when the average person's weekly pay was $6. The Club operated freely due to the money the Everleigh sisters gave police and aldermen. Eventually, notoriety and social pressure from social reformer/activists caused Mayor Carter Harrison, Jr. to order it shut down on October 24, 1911. The Everlieghs shut the doors and left with more than $1 million in cash, jewelry, stocks and bonds.
