Our club’s convention auction is easily one of the year’s highlights for me. My bank roll is not in the higher echelons like some our members, but I always end up with some cool finds at really good prices. I normally do not collect illegals but the 49 and Green Mill just called to me because of the history and the absolute steal I won them for. Sinatra is obviously Sinatra so how can you say no, plus my wife and I were (before he passed) friends with the Maitre’d at Frank’s old restaurant in SoCal back in the day. So it’s special.
The highlight (and I am still SO JAZZED that I was the winning bid) was the 3 chips from Jack Warner’s personal home set. I have always loved old movies and growing up in Southern California my dad took the family for tours of the studio lots and Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, CA. This kind of stuff just instilled a love in me for old films and I guarantee I was the lone kid in elementary school who could tell you all about Douglas Fairbanks, Roscoe Arbuckle, Cyd Charisse, Buster Keaton and Gloria Swanson to name a few ( I was the weird kid, you may have guessed). To own something from that era of “The Dream Factory” is pure bliss for me.