6 Weeks to go!

Today's *Thursday's Millions* will focus on some of the photographs from my Million Dollar Display collection. I have quite a few photos so I will show some next week, as well. When I say ‘photos’ I am not referring to the MDD photo postcards..those were shown here back on April 19th.

The first photo is perhaps the most famous one of Las Vegas legend Benny Binion..

If you look closely at the above photo of the $10,000 bills..notice column 2, row 7..it looks like a little adhesive is needed to fix that one bill out of place.

I have seen other photos, as well, of that ‘dropping’ bill..so it makes me believe it was like that for awhile before it was fixed.

The next photo is one I really like..it shows the marquee of the Horseshoe during the Joe W. Brown days..one that I haven’t seen before..if you look closely on the 2nd panel it reads ‘See $1,000,000 in Cash. Now on Display..

The next photo is of a billboard, that I assume was located somewhere outside of Las Vegas. If anyone knows of the location of this billboard, I would love to know where it was located...

The next photo is of an angle I hadn’t seen before..kind of interesting to see the inside of the horseshoe with the spotlights on the money..

The following two photos are from United Press International..showing a lady playing a slot machine right next to the display. I didn't know the Horseshoe ever put slot machines RIGHT next to the MDD! One of the photos has the description, and the other doesn't. Front and back of the photos are shown, with the UPI markings..

The final photo this week is one of my favorites. I actually took this in the Binion’s poker room a few years ago during a break in a Saturday deepstack tournament. I assume talk show host Mike Douglas (or was it Merv Griffin?) had Zsa Zsa (or was it Eva?) Gabor as a guest along with Jack Binion (with security guard) and the money from the $1,000,000 display. If anyone knows any additional information about this episode, I would be very interested in it..

Sadly, the Binion’s poker room is mostly empty these days, with the Golden Nugget being the last real poker room downtown. I am going back to Binion’s in June, as I will be downtown for a couple of the Golden Nugget Grand Series poker tournaments. I will see if the large framed photograph is still up in the now mostly empty room. I sure would like to buy it if it is ever for sale!

Part II of photographs will continue next Thursday.

Thank you to all who have sold and/or traded me items through the years and have shown interest in my collection.

I hope you have found these Posts interesting..

*Thursday's Millions* Schedule:

4/11/18 - Introduction http://www.thechipboard.com/index.cgi/page/1/md/read/id/1516744/sbj/thursday-s-millions-10-week-convention-countdown/
4/12/18 - 10 Weeks to Go: Non-Flat Items http://www.thechipboard.com/index.cgi/md/read/id/1516900/sbj/thursday-s-millions-convention-in-10-weeks/
4/19/18 - 9 Weeks to Go: Postcards http://www.thechipboard.com/index.cgi/md/read/id/1517848/sbj/thursday-s-millions-convention-in-9-weeks/
4/26/18 - 8 Weeks to Go: Advertising Pieces http://www.thechipboard.com/index.cgi/page/1/md/read/id/1518709/sbj/thursday-s-millions-convention-in-8-weeks/
5/3/18 - 7 Weeks to Go: Matchcovers and Tickets http://www.thechipboard.com/index.cgi/md/read/id/1519518/sbj/thursday-s-millions-convention-in-7-weeks/
5/10/18 - 6 Weeks to Go Photographs Part I
5/17/18 - 5 Weeks to Go Photographs Part II
5/24/18 - 4 Weeks to Go Gone Fishin’
5/31/18 - 3 Weeks to Go Miscellaneous MDD Items
6/7/18 - 2 Weeks to Go My Wishlist
6/14/18 - 1 Week to Go Chips and Tokens
6/21/18 - Convention!