Those old ad's are great. Looks like its may be close to 1955 or bit later.
Now about Mr. Villarnova
Rigo is a friend of mine and also club member. He has some of the most interesting stories I ever heard being that he had a long career since his late teens ,now retired, dealing at a few of the major old time casinos. Steve Miller has been in touch with him and we look forward to some of his interesting stories in an up coming issue of the club magazine. One of my favorites was a Sheik he was dealing to that took off on his private airplane in the middle of the night back overseas and welched on a 5 million dollar marker, he lost it all in one night, never to be seen again. Pictured here on the left he was a Dealer on the Sahara Baccarat tables in the days of the transition from the Sahara Plaques to regular checks. He offered to contribute the picture with the information on all of his co-workers pictured, who were also very interesting guys, to the Sahara Display once Jim secures a space for the MOGH display.
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