Frank Steward posted this 1959 picture of Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe in another Sinatra thread yesterday, but I thought I'd pass along a little information about the other person in the picture and show the chip that was made to replicate the picture.

Bert "Wingy" Grober owned the Cal Neva Lodge in Crystal Bay just before Sinatra did. He was a mob guy, a friend of Joe Kennedy (father of future president John F. Kennedy) and Sam Giancana, whose presence at the Cal Neva ultimately resulted in Sinatra's gaming license being revoked in 1963. Grober's nickname, "Wingy," was given to him as a kid because one of his arms was shorter than the other. He also was, by multiple accounts, a heavy and mostly unsuccessful gambler. His gambling losses were instrumental in his selling the Cal Neva. At one time he owned 52 percent of the property. Eventually that number was down to 19 percent, and he sold the place for only $250,000.

Grober later moved to Las Vegas and worked at Caesars Palace when it opened in 1966. He lived at Caesars in a room near the cage and moved to the Dunes a couple of years before he died in 1985.