Vegas World Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV Rare Matchbook

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Welcome To Robert’s Museum Quality Casino Collectables, and Fine Art! We Sell Casino Collectables From The 1800’s To The 1900’ and The present time. We Specialize In Many One of a Kind Casino Collectables, and Fine Art! Please note this is meant to be a fun auction! Make an offer! Have Fun!!! I Love People Who Like To Bargain. ((( Now Up, To The Highest Bidder ))) Vegas World Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, Nevada. Book Of Rare M atches! (Excellent Condition ) ((((( Used ))))) ((( YES ))) Missing Matches ))) ((( Old Vintage ))) (((((((( Rare )))))))) ((( Size: 3" ¾ X 2" ))) (Item Number: ARWPW 00698936890361365844136121714) Free Air Tight Plastic Chip Casing For Every Chip You Buy!!! All My Chips Come Shipped In An Air Tight Plastic Casing For added Protection For Free! YES FOR FREE!!! We offer combined shipping discounts on Chips, Dice & Matches ETC! Shipping For 1 to 3 Items, ( USA First Class Mail: 2.75 ) Shipping For 4 to 25 Items, ( USA Flat Rate Priority Mail: 5.75 ) Shipping For 1 to 25 Items, ( International Flat Rate Priority Mail: 13.75 ) We offer combined shipping. Shipping Discounts on Chips and Dice ETC! Save On Shipping. (If you are buying more than one item, for the shipping discount, please pay for all items at one time) (As You Can See, I Love History!!! ) More Las Vegas History On Past Mob Ties Chicago' s Man in Vegas Anthony Spilotro (1938-1986) Anthony Spilotro wasn't much to look at. His build certainly wasn't threatening. He stood just five feet, six inches tall and weighed in the neighborhood of 160. His small stature led underworld colleagues to call him "Tony the Ant" and "The Little Guy." His face wasn't intimidating either. He had the look of a businessman. But there was something threatening in his blue eyes. The look was confident and detached and perhaps a little bored with the outside world. Behind those eyes, Anthony Spilotro seemed to be committing murder in his mind. Spilotro's savage tendencies and a string of beatings and killings attributed to him caused him to be revered and feared within the Chicago Outfit. Despite his small physical stature, he rose within the Mafia ranks to become the Outfit's man in Las Vegas, the overlord of Sin City. He held that rank from 1971 until his ambition, his paranoia and his murderous rage conspired to bring him down a decade and a half later. Born Anthony John Spilotro in Chicago on May 19, 1938, he was frequently in trouble with the law during his teen years. He was repeatedly arrested for burglary and other offenses. As a young adult, he became a collector for Sam DeStefano's Chicago shylocking operation, a job in which Spilotro's willingness to take apart another human being came in handy. In the early 1960s, authorities believe Spilotro was responsible for the torture deaths of two unpaying DeStefano loan clients. He is widely believed to have forced hoodlum William McCarthy's (some sources refer to him as McCartney) head into a vise and then to have tightened that tool until one of McCarthy's eyes popped from his head. FBI Agent William Roemer said Spilotro was also responsible for the death of William "Action" Jackson. Jackson was hung up on a meat hook and tortured. By the mid-1960s, Spilotro was a "made" member of the Outfit and became involved with some of Chicago's gambling ventures. He appears to have spent some time protecting Outfit interests in south Florida (Cuba had recently been closed to Mafiosi because of Fidel Castro's communist revolution there). He returned to Chicago after a few years and the Outfit began grooming him to take over its Las Vegas operations. Despite its closeness to Los Angeles, the "Mickey Mouse Mafia" failed to stake out a territory in Vegas, leaving the gambling oasis open for other mob families. The Chicago Outfit swept in w... read more

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