Manufacturer: Sterling China
User: Jerry Caperelli's Park Place Supper Club
Date: 1988

June 1988

Jan. 24, 1990

Dec. 8, 1988

Dec. 7, 1988

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Notes: Gerald Caperell opened his Jerry Caperelli's Park Place Supper Club in Fort Mohave, Arizona, in June 1988, offering complimentary limousine service, nightly "mellow sounds of Mario Surticella" and "our expertly trained staff [to pamper] your every whim."

Within six months, however, the "swank" supper club that promised "the hectic world outside dissolves with every succulent morsel" had been raided, and Caperell was arrested on charges of operating an estimated $12 million-a-year methamphetamine ring. One can imagine that the club existed to serve as a front for the meth business and most likely to launder money.

The restaurant, located at 5410 Highway 95, was located just south of Bullhead City and around 100 miles south of Las Vegas. It never reopened.

Caperell was sentenced in 1990 to nearly 19 years in prison after his conviction of operating a continuing criminal enterprise. And Vicki Wall, Caparell's common-law wife who billed herself as a "prisoner of love," was later sentenced to five years for assisting Caparell in running the meth business.

In the 2000s, the building housed Dream Girls Gentlemen's Club, and it is now (2026) the home of Exotic Kitty Gentlemen's Club.

The pattern has a wide band of cadet blue around its rim with pinstripes of metallic gold on each side. It appears that cups and service plates also included the restaurant's logo: the name fitted inside a circle in the same cadet blue and the addition of two red rosebuds.

Sources:
Needles Desert Star, June 15, 1988 – first ad
Needles Desert Star – Dec. 7, 1988 – "drug kingpin" arrested
Hanford Sentinel, Dec. 8, 1988 – "drug kingpin" arrested
Needles Desert Star, Jan. 24, 1990 – Caparell sentencing

Contributors:
Rodric Coslet: ID, research
Vicki Cade: service plate photos
Ed Babcock: group photos