NCV Token Alpine Village Inn Las Vegas German Restaurant Lowenbrau Beer 2 Chip s

Description

Lot of 2 Vintage Alpine Village Inn Las Vegas Off Strip restaurant bar Advertising Tokens .
Up for auction is a pair of UNUSED old
Las Vegas
tokens. This 2 sided token is a vinyl version of the "wooden nickel"concept
.
"Good for a free stein of Lowenbrau Beer with each dinner Purchase" Other side has Hershel's wife's name; co-owner "Eudora Leverton 734-6888." All 2 are the same.  This location was across the street from the International / Hilton Casino.
Never used !
New Old Stock NOS.
Each measures about 1 5/8" across.
This awesome collection is in
excellent condition
. Item looks far better than my low quality scan.
Some Hist
ory on the famous Alpine Village Inn in Las Vegas;
Some History on the famous Alpine Village Inn in Las Vegas
;
The long gone Alpine Village Inn was last located at 3003 Paradise Road, across the street from the Las Vegas Hilton. Famous for their Chicken Supreme Soup and their Seasoned Cottage Cheese appetizer, this place began serving German food in a downtown location in 1950, then moved three or four times before settling into its final location on Paradise, in 1970.
Las Vegas;
1950 Downtown location opened(presumably by Ray E. Dambach) at 903 /905 North Las Vegas Blvd. (later became The Chalet).
1953 Moved to Maryland Parkway near Tropicana “across from the University”. This is the location referred to as “Two miles off Hwy 91 on Bond Road”. Phone number was Dudley 4-9749. Hwy 91 in those days was also called the LA Highway, but is now known as the Las Vegas Strip.
1958; Hershel Leverton and John Marion were in talks to buy the Alpine Village Inn, Inc. from Ray E. Dambach for ,750.
1959; Opens under Leverton ownership “across from the Stardust" Phone number was DU 4-5512.
1961; July – “Stardust” Location Completely Destroyed by fire. Closed for almost 2 years.
1963;Opens new location in April at 4375 S. Las Vegas Blvd next to the Lucerne Motel, across from where Mandalay Bay is now. Phone number 736-3704.
1970; 3003 Paradise Road (across from the Hilton)
.
Phone number 734-6888.
1975, December; two bombs were planted on the roof of the Paradise Road restaurant. They went off at 9 p.m., 30 seconds apart, on a busy Saturday night. Amazingly, though 400 patrons, employees, and passersby were on the scene, no one was seriously injured.
Circa 1994; Hershel Leverton sells Alpine Village.
March 1997 Alpine Village closes under new ownership and items are sold off.
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Other Locations;
Reno; 6395 South Virginia Rd Opened July 1959 closes before April 1963
Denver; 1150 So. Colorado Blvd. Circa 1959 through at least 1963. Phone number SK6-3802. May have existed under different owners until around 1975.
Eugene, Oregon 260 River Road exists circa 1963.
Phoenix;
5025 North Seventh Avenue in Phoenix Arizona. Circa 1965
The North Woods Inn 6115 So. Santa Fe in Littleton, Colorado. PY4-2112 was also part of this restaurant group at one time.
This awesome lot is in
excellent condition
.
It looks BEAUTIFUL!!
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