Been looking for this about a year or so now. I'd start in searching and get distracted by old keno sheets or casino fun books or banquet tix from past conventions...

So anyway, the picture is captioned as if it's of ERV but we've actually got a wiseguy here and the Thunderbird in the immediate background. Yes, that is the El Rancho Vegas with the windmill tower in the upper part of the image.

Just so happens, I was taking a look at the Fall '05 CCTN that arrived only the other day and the excellent article by Steve Fischer therein about ERV. For the new folks planning on their first convention, you'll want to roll outta the rack for Steve's seminar Friday 8/10 at Oh Eight Hundred. Seems to me that Steve had a new wrinkle last year in the whole ERV burndown story as his research is always ongoing, to our great good fortune. Hoping he'll have copies of his newest book available for us too!

Suppose this guy knows anything about the yellow $5 T-Bird small keys? TCR sez the yellow arodie was on the table @1953, you know, the 'bird with the turquoise bellybutton.