BIG advertising ashtray haul

 Found at a yard sale this morning, EIGHT advertising ashtrays, 

and therefore,

EIGHT more additions to my advertising ashtray collection!!!

Wanna see?

 Hotel El Rancho Vegas

The first of the Las Vegas ashtrays that was part of this haul.

The ashtray the from original El Rancho, which had a horrible fire in the early 1960s, then limped along for awhile before going out of business entirely.  In the early 1980s, the Thunderbird renamed itself El Rancho, but that version closed in 1992.

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Joe W. Brown's Horseshoe Club

Lotsa interesting info on the 'net about this place.

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Now it's IHOP

But back in the day, it was the International House of Pancakes. 

I like that name better.

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La Fondue

'Fondue is fun!'

If there's anything more Seventies than fondue, I cannot think what it could be.

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Back to Las Vegas

The New Frontier

Demolished in 2007

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The Silver Slipper Casino

Some neat info on the 'net about this as well.

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Steve Phillips Restaurant 

Yonkers, NY

Today there's a McDonald's at that address.

True fact: My maternal great-grandparents' first stop in the US was Yonkers, circa 1894.  A hundred and a bunch of years later, I now have in-laws that live there.  

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Town Tavern

Bronxville, NY

It's now called 'JC Fogerty's Town Tavern.'

I also have in-laws in Bronxville.  

Downtown Bronxville has more stationery stores than anywhere else I've ever been.  

The Villager, which was/is(?) a literary magazine based in Bronxville, published one of my stories years ago.