Originally Posted by The Boz View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Originally Posted by The Boz View Post

Gary Fucking Austin, now that’s a name I hadn’t heard in well over 30 years. He was big in the tout mail game in the early 80’s.

Here is a recap of him and his “situation”.

https://www.onlinebe.mywhc.ca/gary-austin/
Gary Fucking Austin is about right.

The Castaways gets a prominent mention in Boz's article. Here's my blog entry regarding same:

https://theskepticalgambler.blogspot...castaways.html
Good stuff RED.

I was never in Castaways, was partial to the Barbary Coast in my much younger days.

I loved the Barbary Coast. It had its own vibe, and I loved it. I remember filling out football contest entries at a table in the lounge, hearing a voice singing, and looking up from my table to see Big Elvis for the first time. I thought it was a fat suit (he was around 650 pounds at the time). Won two cruise tickets in their football contest my first year there (top 100, I think), then sold them to my friend (also Bob). I never really warmed to the food in the coffee shop, but ate there occasionally anyway just because.

I still have half a dozen Barbary baseball caps lying around here in various drawers.