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STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Tiki Socialite Carson, California Joined: Aug 20, 2002 Posts: 2807	STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Posted posted on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 6:32 PM On 2010-02-01 22:44, Bay Park Buzzy wrote: I'm wondering if we can figure out where one of my finds came from. It's a picture holder from a place called "Tropics Club." Here's the cover graphics and one of the 4 pictures of this group that were in it. The only clues are the phone, which is "Main-10354" and "Upper Valley". Buzzy - Looks like the Tropics Club in El Paso, TX. A book search reveals it was a gambling house as well as a club, and made payments to the mob. It was run by Barney Marcus of Brooklyn and Los Angeles underworld kingpin Mickey Cohen & his bodyguard John Stomponado are known to have visitied it. A few vintage newspaper articles don't paint such a nice picture of the place: El Paso Herald-Post, Jan 17, 1947 (see 3rd paragraph from the bottom) It had been renamed the Sunland Club by 1950:

On 2010-02-01 22:44, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:
I'm wondering if we can figure out where one of my finds came from. It's a picture holder from a place called "Tropics Club." Here's the cover graphics and one of the 4 pictures of this group that were in it.

The only clues are the phone, which is "Main-10354" and "Upper Valley".

Buzzy -

Looks like the Tropics Club in El Paso, TX. A book search reveals it was a gambling house as well as a club, and made payments to the mob. It was run by Barney Marcus of Brooklyn and Los Angeles underworld kingpin Mickey Cohen & his bodyguard John Stomponado are known to have visitied it. A few vintage newspaper articles don't paint such a nice picture of the place:

El Paso Herald-Post, Jan 17, 1947 (see 3rd paragraph from the bottom)

It had been renamed the Sunland Club by 1950:

Post #508815 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 6:32 PM