Casino – A Few Words On How Money Changes People
June 6th, 2009 | 
Author: A Las Vegas cab driver related the following story while taking me from the downtown Four Queens up to Caesars Palace on the Strip. A couple of high school sweethearts in Encino, California, got engaged and planned to marry right after graduation. Something happened between them and they broke up, each eventually marrying someone else.
Twenty years passed. The fellow was a widower now and he was a city bus driver in Las Vegas. On a regular run, he chanced to overhear a conversation between two women sitting directly behind him. They were discussing a mutual friend, and he suddenly realized that they were talking about his old flame. He questioned them and was delighted to learn that she was also now a resident of Las Vegas, and recently widowed.
Of course, he promptly looked her up. Sparks flew and the flame rekindled, as they picked up where they had left off two decades before in high school. Once again, they made plans to get married.
Stopping for a drink at the then newly opened Four Queens, the fellow filled out two sweepstake tickets for a $500,000 prize. The tickets had been dropped off by the waitress along with their drinks, an opening- month promotion for the new casino. As a gesture of his devotion and love, he put his betrothed's name on both tickets.
Of course she won the half-million. And the first thing she did was dump the bus driver.
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Casino Chip Collecting
Through the four decades of my casino hopping I accumulated a box full of casino chips from all over the world. Visiting Monte Carlo and London, I made it my business to save a chip or two for souvenirs. In Virginia City, Nevada, I couldn't resist the colorful $5 chip used in the Bucket of Blood Saloon casino. When I won a couple hundred dollars there, I took my winnings all in their $5 chips to use for presents. Frankly, from other casinos I just accumulated them, and never gave them a second thought. Then, opening up my Sunday News of October 18, 1998, to my astonishment, there blazing across the front page of the Fall Casino Guide, was IN THE CHIPS: THE COLLECTING CRAZE THAT'S PAYING OUT.
The full-page feature article inside told of the fast-growing 2,000 strong National Casino Chip & Gaming Token Collectors Club (P.O. Box 63, Brick NJ 08923) that had a website and holds an annual convention in Las Vegas.
"Collecting chips has a plus factor that most other collectibles do not have," said Archie Black, president of the club. "Whenever you want to cash in your chips you can at face value." And if the casino no longer exists, your chips will be a hot property and of considerable interest to collectors.
A $100 chip from the Flamingo of 1946 and 1947, when Bugsy Siegel ran the joint, recently sold for $3,500, and even a $100 chip from the Brighton Casino (now the Sands) in Atlantic City sells for thousands of dollars today.
Now how should you start your collection? My suggestion is to save a couple of $1 chips from each casino where you win. If the casino has 25$. chips, you can become The Last of the Big-Time Spenders as you pocket a half-dozen of them. (I even have some 10<t chips from the "sawdust joints" of downtown Vegas that catered to Low Rollers in the 1960s and '70s.)
If you made a nice score at certain casinos you might even save a $5 chip or two from there. If you're not a High Roller 1 urge you not to save any $25 or $100 chips—yet.
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