I visited with Bill every time I came to Vegas for years. He and I would sit in the back of his store and talk chips. Didn’t he have a huge framed photo in the store of him shaking hands with Frank Sinatra? He was the first one to publish a regular chip newsletter, the “World Wide Casino Exchange”, if I remember correctly. It was supposed to be monthly, but came out irregularly. I devoured it immediately when it arrived in my mailbox. He also wrote a column in a local newspaper, so he was an established writer. I still have some of his price lists and of course his “Blue Book”, which was the first ever attempt to catalog every known chip. Bill did go a little overboard when he started restriking old chips, like the Flamingo Capri and ‘The Casino’, but I liked him, and he was certainly way ahead of his time. He also insured that we would be mentioning his name as long as this hobby exists.