I'll admit I don't remember much anymore but I do remember my first encounter with the Smiths. We were at the Riviera for one of the early conventions, The Palms donated the giant replicas of their Playmate chips that hung in the casino. They were beautiful. We decided to auction them at the banquet and I was the auctioneer. The first one went off and to say the bidding was fierce would be an understatement! The guy with the pretty little wife did not quit, he made up his mind it was going home with them and it did! That was Sheldon. But that's not the end of the story, the next one went up, same thing, turns out they had a friend that wanted one. They still lived in Chicago at that time, so I don't know how they got them home. Of course we met each other after the auction and I was happy to consider then friends. Good memories. Jim