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[David O]

I can see this being a book already. A book I'd gladly read.

I wish I had the time to write a book!!

One thing I did not put in the post was she did say she had some River View Chips, a few single, that only has an RV hot stamped in them. She said that they were actually produced with the Jones mold (MD-45) but made by the Burt Company. Interesting stuff. i cannot wait until I get to speak with her again!. Maybe I will ask her to come down and talk to some of the attendees at the All-In at the Alamo. No Promises but I should try!

 

[BGinGA]

Holy crap. Somebody needs to involve a regular at the Chipboard on these. Those guys live for reporting/recording chip/token/gambling history.

 

[David O]

I'm aSSuming like almost all chips of this era, this was a custom mold made for Jones Bros & the chips made by the Burt Co i
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It was a mold that the Jones Brothers used for their chip making company and used by the Burt Company. She said many of the manufacturers worked together on different projects.

 

[David O]

Holy crap. Somebody needs to involve a regular at the Chipboard on these. Those guys live for reporting/recording chip/token/gambling history.

I know this is the nuts!!! I can ask her if she would mind. Some of the stories were very cool to hear about. So much tied back to the mob. She did say she thought there was a mob museum that mentions Haskell and Leslie.

If you know of someone that would be interested, have them call me.

 

[Mac128k]

Holy crap. Somebody needs to involve a regular at the Chipboard on these. Those guys live for reporting/recording chip/token/gambling history.

And some of those guys do have time to write the book

 

[BGinGA]

@Psypher1000 @gmunny @David Spragg -- any suggestions on who @David O might contact?

 

[Psypher1000]

any suggestions

Thanks for the tag. Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with the membership base yet to be able to make such a suggestion. David is much more likely to have ideas than I would.

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[gmunny]

@Psypher1000 @gmunny @David Spragg -- any suggestions on who @David O might contact?

Other than David Spragg, my first thought was Gene Trimble, a great researcher and loves the illegal club history, however he recently passed away.


I just recalled that there are Jones Brothers records on the Preserving Gaming History site here.

http://www.preservinggaminghistory.com/

Jones brothers link here:

http://www.preservinggaminghistory.com/jones/jones.htm

Based on the info on this site, i would say Dr. Allen Myers, though I don't know if he is still active. He was one of the original author's of the Chip Rack (before Spragg, Sarles and Sands). I found an email on the club site and I'll PM David O. the email address.

 

[Blaster]

 

[David O]

Last night I sent Ms. Gail a text thanking her once again and this morning I woke up to several Text messages with more stories. These went into the connection of Haskel Jones and Carlos "The Godfather" Marcello with connections to LBJ and the Kennedy's

 

[inca911]

Ask her who shot JFK....

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

Woody Harrelson's dad, duh!

 

[David O]

Ask her who shot JFK....

Funny thing is she told me she was told who was in on it but not who actually pulled the trigger

 

[David O]

Woody Harrelson's dad, duh!

No that was a judge wood that Harrell son killed right here in San Antonio. Lol

 

[Richard Cranium]

Ask her who shot JFK....