About three months prior to the chip order (a very important clue) it was announced that members of the Lake Shore Country Club were going to begin work on remodeling a building for use as an inside the Loop social club called the Down Town Club (most references to the club spell its name Down Town not Downtown).  I’m not sure when the place opened but it closed in 1925 and was replaced by Al Tearney’s Town Club (which was closed in 1927 for liquor violations).  The DTC was located at 619 South Wabash; the structure which housed it still exists and still has the same address.

It’s interesting to note that on the website only three chips were delivered to Mandel Bros. and one of them was to the Lake Shore County Club (the other was the JH Oberfelder yacht chip).  All the Mandels were members of the LSCC and presumably would have been members of the DTC (their department store was located six blocks north in a building on Madison which stretched from Wabash to State).  The president of the DTC was Louis Eckstein who, like the Mandel’s, was a wealthy prominent Jewish Chicagoan.