These salt and pepper shakers were manufactured for Dick Grave's Nugget in Sparks, NV. Joe is a multicolored cold-painted cowboy. The character of Last Chance Joe, a bearded old West figure wearing a red bandana and packing a pistol on each hip, was created by Roscoe “Duke” Reading of Boise on a commission from Nugget founder Dick Graves in 1952, when Graves was still operating in Idaho. One of his enterprises was the Last Chance Cafe in Garden City, Idaho. In addition to these salt & pepper shakers of Joe, there were mugs, coins, postcards, ashtrays, bobble heads, casino chips and other advertising.