The Dugout (2 Viewers)

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This set has a very special meaning. Thank you @timinater for bringing it to reality.

The Dugout has been a nickname for my basement bar and poker room since its creation, but the poker room section of my basement has been known as Anthony T. C..... Memorial Poker Room for the past couple years, in memory of my late father.

My father gets the credit for the poker room design. While standing in my unfinished basement with the designer and contractor, he was the one that said that this space was perfect for a poker room, and not a lounge area, that I had planned. He died before he was ever able to play in it.

My father owned, at one time, the largest professional fireworks display company in the United States. It was a family business that was brought over from Italy in the early 1900's.

The chip design is based on the business. Both the company logos are incorporated into the chip design, with the $1 and $25 being the two company logo colors. The $5 chip is based on my favorite firework show picture, Chicago lakefront years ago. The $100 color scheme is based on a finale of a fireworks show, with multiple colored fireworks in the air.

The company was sold when my dad died in 2021, so it is no longer in the family.

Hope everyone enjoys.
 

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