Looking at Pam's Las Vegas Club stuff got me thinking about Frank Polk, the guy who carved the one
arm bandit slot machines there and featured on a lot of their stuff. He made 92 of them while working
for Harry Skelly at the Character Manufacturing Company in the late 1940s in Reno. I remember
there were 50 of them at the Bonanza Club in Virginia City when Pick and Joe Hobson owned it.
There were a few at the Stockmen's hotel in Elko that were destroyed when the place burned. They
gave out a small ceramic likeness when you hit a jackpot. I'm not sure but I think they were also
made at CMC. Frank also made the model for the Golden Rooster at John Ascuaga's Nugget. Frank
was an alcoholic who hung out at the Roundup Bar in Reno. He stuttered when he talked but when
he was drunk he talked normally. Sure wish I could have met the guy. For people who still read
books his autobiography is worthwhile.