FILLMORE : Gambling Club Allowed to Reopen
The Fillmore City Council on Tuesday approved a permit for a card gambling club in the city.
On a 5-0 vote, the city gave the go-ahead to Bud and Betty Burton to reopen the Pan Pad Club for poker and pan games on the site of the old Perkos Restaurant on Ventura Street. The Burtons bought the restaurant earlier this year.
The Pan Pad Club had operated between 1971 and 1986, when the city brought the club’s building on Fillmore Street and transformed it into a senior citizen center.
In exchange for agreeing to sell the building, Burton was allowed to renew his gambling license, Councilman Roger Campbell said. Gambling was outlawed in Fillmore soon after the Pan Pad Club was licensed, but the Burtons were allowed to keep their license because they had opened the club before the ban went into effect, Campbell said.
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