Thanks for posting the story, Kerry.

It's hard to find things out of the old Club Bingo (predecesor to the Sahara), but we have the postcard that they used with the article, and a couple showing some of the artwork inside. Here's a link, if you're interested:

http://community.webtv.net/Porkchop415/ClubBingoHwy91

We also have a matchbook cover (no matches). There is an ashtray that's come up on eBay a few times, be we haven't got one (yet). Once they had one with an opening bid of ?$2.99, and a "buy it now" for ?$5.99...of course someone else bought it before we found it!! Another time one was listed with a low starting bid, there were 4-5 bids on it, and the seller canceled the auction "item is no longer available for sale". Funny thing is, the same seller had 2 other "good" ashtrays listed....same thing happened. Obviously someone did a private deal.... One of these days we'll get one!

(The Club Bingo ashtray should go $200 - $500 on eBay...depending on who sees the auction) (The last "first issue" Sahara ashtray went for more than that on eBay...can't show it to you 'cuz our scanner won't scan 3-D objects! )