25 Cents - Pollardville Palace - Dinner Theater (Pollardville, California) ND

Reverse

Boardered by a pearl circle.
A double lined square in center .
inside space between inner and outer box has the legend. Value at very center.
Designers name and location below.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
•GOOD
•FOR
25₵
•-IN-
•TRADE
D.H. FEISEL-
PALO ALTO CAL.

Designer: Duane Fiesel

Edge

Plain

Comment

In 1957 Ray and Ruth Pollard created Pollardville. Complete with The Chicken Kitchen and Palace Showboat Dinner Theatre” surrounded by a ghost town. You could go into the ghost town to find a host of old time caracters roaming the streets. Have a great Chicken dinner while catching a varity of shows. Plays, Vaudville acts and barber shop quartets. The Sherriff John Hoffman kept the unruly caracters in line. He searved as sherrif from 1963 till the time of his death in 1979. He lived and died on site. Having an apartment above the showboat palace. Activities were slowing down after that and the Ghost twon died in 2007. I only went there a couple times. Once when they had public dance in the show hall. Another time the owner had a group of Mt Men/ Rendezvous reenactors come in and create the fur trade times. I was associated with one of the groups that went in for that weekend. You can read more about Pollard and see photgraphs during it's day and after it demise. Copy and past the URL if it does not open for you. You can simply google Polardville California. https://elkgrovehistoricalsociety.com/history-pollardville/ It was located East of Hwy 99 north of Stockton, California.