lookie what i found tonight in my yard, anyone know what it is??

[Carson Coin Master]

maybe someone can help me with this one. if you just read my last post you know i didn't find anything good today. so in my disappointment i remembered someone to always scan over your lawn because who knows where your fill dirt came from so i just went out for about 20 more minutes this evening, i found a pull tab a bottle cap and A COIN!!!! i don't know what it is or anything about it. it is obviously a drink token for something. the front side says in big numbers 50 and a small c in the 0 and across says "in drinks" the back side says ACAPULCO "Lafayette.California" and in the middle says LAF-3711 and has two small propellers above that number. does anyone know what this could be? I'm really excited

 

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[txkickergirl]

Re: well i guess it wasnt to bad after all

sorry I can't help on the id, but I love finding tokens they are so interesting.

 

[Ridley]

I agree with plehbah. The font for the type is typical of the 1950's. Especially the number 50. It's like a jet-age font. Very unique.

Cool token!


Ridley

 

[nuggetshooter323]

It's got to be fairly old. The reason why I think this is I use to live in a city right next to Lafayette, CA. Right now it's a very upscale little yuppie town, so I don't think there have been any establishments that take tokens in a lot of years.

 

[Carson Coin Master]

well i looked this place up and i couldnt find any place in lafeyette,CA called th acupulco. if anyone knows anything about this token it would be nice to get som history on it. thanks again for looking

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice token! HH, Mike

 

[stefen]

lafeyette,CA is east of San Francisco

 

[Tricia]

But more importantly, if the place is still there...see if they'll honor it. Sure 50cents worth of drinks might be 1/4 of a beer but still.

 

[DCMatt]

I would guess from the club name and the "LAF" telephone exchange that it's 60's. I think that's about when ACAPULCO started becoming a popular tourist destination and therefore would have been a good name for a club at that time.

The propellers might make a little older as the world was moving into the jet age by 1960. But I'm just speculating...

If you really want to dig into it (pardon the pun) check with a library in Lafayette and ask for the Chamber of Commerce business listings from the 50's and 60's.

Very cool token!

DCMatt

 

[silverswede]

I tried a yahoo search with Acapulco Inn California and it brings up in Lafayette Ca. a Lafayette Park Hotel Spa. Adress 3287 Mt Diablo Blvd. Maybe a starting point but see that deluxe rooms are over $400.00 a night so the token may not buy more than a drink out of a paper cup. Sure is a pretty one though.

 

[piggman1]

Really nice unique token you have.

 

[rockyredbaron]

The more you hunt the more you find..and its very true..always something different..and ya never know what will pop out next....

 

[Prober]

We had phone numbers like that in the 50's; I think they were all numbers in the 60's. I can still remember our first phone number. VI2-4197 (Victor). AND now if I could only remember where I put my keys!

 

[scorcherbigfoot]

I tried a yahoo search with Acapulco Inn California and it brings up in Lafayette Ca. a Lafayette Park Hotel Spa. Adress 3287 Mt Diablo Blvd. Maybe a starting point but see that deluxe rooms are over $400.00 a night so the token may not buy more than a drink out of a paper cup. Sure is a pretty one though.

Club Acapulco was a "Supper Club" in Lafayette, CA.

"DINING, DANCING AND YES, EVEN GAMBLING: LAFAYETTE’S TUNNEL STRIP

Considering the understated, sophisticated restaurants of Lafayette, it may come as a surprise that the eating establishments of Lafayette’s recent past were almost racy by comparison. Yes, racy!!

In the 1930s and 40s when Mt. Diablo Boulevard was still Old Tunnel Road, Lafayette’s restaurant row was known as the Tunnel Strip. People drove from Oakland and even San Francisco to dance at the El Nido Rancho on the west side of town or eat at the Curve (where Cape Cod House and Celia’s were located) and Planter’s Dock perched high on the hill (now the Jewish Community Center).

Alsam’s (today site of Walgreens) was named for owners Al and Sam Morterra, and Jay Bedsworth, owner of the Tunnel Inn (now Batch and Brine) clipped dollar bills with thumbtacks onto the ceiling. And of course, the Roundup has been on the south side of Mt. Diablo Boulevard since 1935.

Nick Trujillo, a long time Lafayette barber, recalled, “Where Walgreens is today there was a dance hall that had slot machines and gambling in the back. It was originally called Alsam then later renamed Acapulco.”

https://lafayettehistory.org/contact-us/membership/

 

[Digger RJ]

maybe someone can help me with this one. if you just read my last post you know i didn't find anything good today. so in my disappointment i remembered someone to always scan over your lawn because who knows where your fill dirt came from so i just went out for about 20 more minutes this evening, i found a pull tab a bottle cap and A COIN!!!! i don't know what it is or anything about it. it is obviously a drink token for something. the front side says in big numbers 50 and a small c in the 0 and across says "in drinks" the back side says ACAPULCO "Lafayette.California" and in the middle says LAF-3711 and has two small propellers above that number. does anyone know what this could be? I'm really excited

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Peyton Manning]

Wonder why you post on a sixteen year old thread

 

[dognose]

that a nice token. I like the design and text font
congratulations

 

[oldmxrat]

Club Acapulco was a "Supper Club" in Lafayette, CA.

"DINING, DANCING AND YES, EVEN GAMBLING: LAFAYETTE’S TUNNEL STRIP

Considering the understated, sophisticated restaurants of Lafayette, it may come as a surprise that the eating establishments of Lafayette’s recent past were almost racy by comparison. Yes, racy!!

In the 1930s and 40s when Mt. Diablo Boulevard was still Old Tunnel Road, Lafayette’s restaurant row was known as the Tunnel Strip. People drove from Oakland and even San Francisco to dance at the El Nido Rancho on the west side of town or eat at the Curve (where Cape Cod House and Celia’s were located) and Planter’s Dock perched high on the hill (now the Jewish Community Center).

Alsam’s (today site of Walgreens) was named for owners Al and Sam Morterra, and Jay Bedsworth, owner of the Tunnel Inn (now Batch and Brine) clipped dollar bills with thumbtacks onto the ceiling. And of course, the Roundup has been on the south side of Mt. Diablo Boulevard since 1935.

Nick Trujillo, a long time Lafayette barber, recalled, “Where Walgreens is today there was a dance hall that had slot machines and gambling in the back. It was originally called Alsam then later renamed Acapulco.”

https://lafayettehistory.org/contact-us/membership/

Just a tad late on the response to the thread, but very interesting stuff. Good job!