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philoritx

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  1. Bernard was a good friend of mine. And golf buddy. I was introduced to my wife by Faye who was a bartender at his "Wish's Club".
  2. I just stumbled on this thread by accident. I sorta lived in this house for awhile. Technically, I dated the daughter of the woman (Esther) who lived in the house in a caretaker role. I wonder if this is kinfolk of Starryart. When I was drafted in 1970 I was living in a quadplex on West Gray and had no other permanent home address and had to use that Old Main address of my by-then fiancée, so all my Army paperwork shows that as my PHA. I have a lot of photos of the place somewhere. Interesting note...I think everyone near my age remembers where they were when we landed on the moon. I was scraping down the sides of the swimming pool. We had decided to try to clean it out and get it functional again (we did!) and recruited the oldest son Ben, who was living in the servant's quarters in the rear at the time and someone else (maybe DeeDee or Nathan) to help. Someone came down from the house and said we were close to landing so we went in and watched. We never went in the casino part much. I remember high ceilings and dark walls with some risqué murals. I am not sure that it even had functioning lights at that time. I remember the tiny hidden office with the revolving bookcase door that I saw mentioned. I thought it was like something straight out of the movies. I remember the first night I took C**** home. We drove up to that big gate with the guard shack and all...I thought I must be dating a movie star! Soon found out she was just living there in an arrangement that I never knew all the details of. I am not sure what Esther's connection was to the owners. When I came back to the States after my Army service, it was gone. All that was so long ago it almost seems like a different life.
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