I met Lyn Brooks at a little antique swap meet in West Los Angeles one Sunday morning in 1991. I had always saved chips from trips to Vegas but he had old ones sitting in a case that were fascinating to me. We spoke for an hour and he gave me his phone number. We chatted on the phone every week after that until he invited me to drive with him to a club he belonged to where everyone loved chips. He drove me to this bar in Van Nuys were I met a bunch of collectors and I was hooked and am still fascinated when I see a chip I have never seen before.