Clarence Thomas was in Biloxi to give a speech. I have hand written notes on the how and why somewhere in storage. A sometime faulty memory tells me the speech was for the republican party.

Bob Gable was a Club member and a business man in the Biloxi area. He got Thomas to sign.

I started getting autographs on chips in 1995. Bob and fellow club member and business man Michael Ludwig from Virginia Beach, VA both caught the signing fever from me. I got them autographs from poker players at the Four Queens and later stars appearing at The Palms and they got me signed chips from their community activities.

A few other collectors got involved to some degree. It turned into a 600 chip collection. To be honest I still have an unopened priority box from Michael with 30 signed chips in 2002. I keep threatening to get them in my database.

Ludwig got the George H W Bush chip posted yesterday signed at a speech Bush gave in Virginia Beach.