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Brooklyn Hotel Token Hoard [146878]

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Exonumia - Tokens Start Price:40.00 USD Estimated At:80.00 - 140.00 USD
Brooklyn Hotel Token Hoard  [146878]
SOLD
150.00USD+ (37.50) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2022 Apr 23 @ 14:56UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Dealer lot from Napa's Brooklyn Hotel: 1) THE BROOKLYN / HOTEL / NAPA, CAL. / PATRICK & CO. S.F. // GOOD FOR ONE / 10¢ / DRINK; Al. rd., 25 mm. (41 tokens); 2) BROOKLYN / HOTEL / NAPA. // GOOD / FOR / 5¢ / IN TRADE; Br. rd., 21 mm. (30 tokens). The Brooklyn Hotel was constructed circa 1870 and served as a hotel run by Dominic Cavagnero starting in 1872. Cavagnero had been an unsuccessful miner during the Gold Rush and eventually settled his family in East Napa. The hotel he opened was a popular watering hole for the Italian community in the neighborhood and was a place where new Italian immigrants could find lodging, get their bearings, and make employment contacts in Napa. Around 1886, an open-air bowling alley or bocce court had been constructed. Dominic Cavagnero died at the age of 30, and around 1906, the property eventually passed to his son and daughter-in-law, Dave and Nellie Cavagnero, who continued the family business. Dave Cavagnero became a prominent citizen in the Italian community and was affectionately referred to as the Mayor of East Napa. The Cavagnero family lived at the Brooklyn hotel and rented rooms to single men, typically railroad workers. In 1906, when San Francisco was devastated by the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, many Italians fled from the city’s North Beach neighborhood and came to East Napa. They were welcomed and found shelter at the Brooklyn Hotel. Many stayed in the area, increasing the Italian population in East Napa. The Volstead Act of 1919 put Prohibition in full effect, though, and
Dave Cavagnero took up bootlegging to keep the Brooklyn Hotel tavern in business. He partnered with cider manufacturer George Blaufuss and with the help of friends and relations at the Napa Police Department, kept East Napa supplied with beer and liquor.
During one raid, beer from Blaufuss’ property was hidden in a water tank behind the Brooklyn Hotel. The hotel was also the first Napa establishment to serve beer upon the lifting of Prohibition in 1933. Dave’s son, Ray Cavagnero, personally brought a truckload of beer up from San Francisco at midnight on the day the Twenty-first Amendment was passed, furthering the Brooklyn Hotel’s reputation as East Napa’s go-to drinking establishment.
The building is still in use as a motorcycle repair shop. City:Napa State:California Date: