~~~ which held silver dollars.

About Sinatra; one day I was waiting outside of the Riverside while my mother had gone inside to get a book of matches (she collected everything Reno/Virginia City except chips up to 1960) and a taxi pulls up with Sinatra. I knew of him earlier on when he played a few small houses in Flatbush. I said "Hi, I know you from the Kingsway" and I asked him for an autograph and he rearched into his pocket for a dollar bill, signed it and handed it to me and went inside. When my mother came out she said "Johnny, do you remember Frank Sinatra singing at the Kingsway... I just saw him inside." Obvious what my response was. 😀 I was 9 years old and we lived at 555 Imperial Blvd at Mrs Mack's house and we used to walk downtown often. One day while going to the post office, we saw Ava Gardner and the next day when we went to my mother's lawyer's office, she was in front of us walking up the stairs. Since sold all of Mom's collection with the biggest sale at our '94 convention where I sold a Harolds Club souvdeck of cards for $300. The only slot I ever played that summer wasna penny machine in a grocery store downtown. It had automatic opening doors which amazed me never havs seeing anything like that before. I won 3¢ at that slot... 😀