December 2, 2010

The Southern Club, an illegal gambling establishment founded in 1893 and located at 250 Central Avenue in Hot Springs (Garland County), developed a reputation in the 1930s as a hangout for vacationing gangsters. Those same gangsters played games of chance using poker chips such as the one shown here. When illegal gambling ended in the 1960s, the Southern Club remained open for a short time as a supper club. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.