I don't think many people know what or where Frank's Museum Saloon was or even who "Frank" was.
Frank was Frank Roza Jr. a Carson City coin dealer I met in 1966. We got to be good friends and I spent
much of my disposable income in his coin shop. The Museum Saloon was was a building behind his home on Koontz Lane in Carson where he displayed old gaming tables and all the other stuff he collected. I remember finding a crap and roulette table from Gene's Silver Palace in Yerington which
we hauled back to Carson. We also got all the "Wave" mold chips for the roulette table as well as the
original BC Wills packing crate. My favorite table was a tub (one man crap table) Frank got out of an
old joint in Mountain City, Nevada. It appeared to have been made by an old axe carpenter. Frank
had a large collection of Nevada trade tokens and held monthly meetings of CANTS at his museum.
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