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Post a pic of your Favorite $500 chip in YOUR POSSESSION (3 Viewers)

ReallyGoodUsername said:
Hey he’s cheating! :LOL: :laugh: Epic collection!



lighthouse $500 - awesome and maybe leaded? But rhc
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Not really cheating, my tastes just change every millisecond, so posting a few is legit ;)

I'd say maybe partially leaded, but 100% spectacular.
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my favourite it's this plaque: 500 french francs from Aviation Club de France in Paris.
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I have also two jetons from Cote d'Azur for 500 francs.... Beaulieu and Nice, both in souther France
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and a jeton from Austria, 500 schilling
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finally, two chips from eastern Europe: 500 forint from Gyor in Hungary and 500 Leke from Tirana in Albania
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I loooooove New York and have spent some really good time there; not just in the tourist attractions [my grandpa passed through Ellis Island in 1904 but happily returned in 1911], but more like Washington Heights, Sugar Hill, Lower East Side, Astoria and Corona, but I just hate chips with photographs on their labels.

I 've had my life's probably best combo of spicy grilled meat and wine in an Argentinian-style restaurant in Corona.
The name of the place was "El Chorisho Allegre", but I was so happy and drunk that, for decades, I thought it was named "La Puta del Campo".
My New Yorker cousin corrected me about this, last year.

In 2003, my sister discovered the diner our grandpa had worked in from 1904 to 1911, on 5th avenue.
It's now a florist's store.
:)
 
Coyote said:
In 2003, my sister discovered the diner our grandpa had worked in from 1904 to 1911, on 5th avenue.
It's now a florist's store.
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The tragic story of life in the city. Wonderful establishments turn over, but it hurts after they’ve had such great runs. Beautiful story friend...the extent of my Greek was learned at Greek Easter in Astoria, spent with friends who owned...the local diner :D
 
He returned to the village in 1911 and got married to a picky spinster, my grandma Vassilo (she was 22). :)
His plans were to return to NY with the wife, but, first, we got liberated (in Epirus) from the Ottoman Turks in 1912, as a result of the First Balkan War, and soon after (1914) WW I broke out and the Reich 's submarines took over the Atlantic.
This is the story behind my NOT being today a 3d-generation American:LOL: :laugh:

My grandparents had five children, They lost two girls to illnesses (aged 2 and 17) and one young man at 25, in 1944, the most brilliant and admired man in the region, Captain of the Army, to fratricidal fire from the Communists, during the Resistance against the Nazis.
More here:
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/horseshoe-pesta-1895-pr0n.54003/
 

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