Sint / St. Maarten Isle Hotel: History & Set (1 Viewer)

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Langworthy made chips too (plastics), but the clay chips they sold were manufactured by Burt Co.

Originally located in Detroit, Langworthy & Co. started manufacturing chips as R.T. Plastics after moving to Las Vegas in 1962 (and later opening the Gamblers General Store across the street from Spinetti's).

Interesting. So when the order card has “Langworthy & Co. Order” typed on it, but the card has “The Burt Co.” stamped in the lower right corner, I guess that means they were a Burt production ordered via Langworthy.

Note: Extra Heavy!

 

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Finally found one of these ($20 on eBay) to help round out the collection…

 

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another small addition to the ephemera accompanying this set:

 

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I’ve put together a short history of the St. Maaren Isle Hotel & Casino based on the material I’ve gathered here, plus some additional research crawls by the dreaded ChatGPT (actually quite useful in this context).

I have this as a PDF, but am not sure how to upload such things here, or if that is possible... And so will try adding these as screenshots—not ideal, but it is what it is. The first page is full-screen, the rest I’ll post as clickable thumbnails.

Please note that this is not a final draft, but it is 98% of the way there. If anyone spots any typos or errors, please let me know.

 

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(pp. 2-7 as thumbnails)

 

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(Reading this over online, instead of in my word processor, I can see a number of redundant passages, and a couple of typos, which I’ll fix. If anyone wants a copy of the final PDF when its ready, just shoot me a DM.)