UPDATE: The three days of the online auction will be coming to a close March 4th, 5th, and 6th. Link to online auction is below.
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said it has acquired radiowaves worth Rs 18,699 crore in the latest spectrum auction. The telco has acquired 355.45 MHz spectrum across Sub GHz, mid band.
Expected to fetch between $30,000 and $50,000, the pair sold for $590,400. The result surpassed the previous auction record of $74,000 for a Coolidge. Coolidge's 1894 Poker Game realized $658,000 at a Sotheby's New York sale on 18 November 2015. UPDATE: The three days of the online auction will be coming to a close March 4th, 5th, and 6th. Link to online auction is below. ORIGINAL: Hudson Stremmel has conducted all types of auctions in his seven years as an auctioneer. He’s presided over dispersals of real estate and fine arts, vehicles, and estate sales, for his family’s business Stremmel Auctions. ONLINE LISTING NOW AVAILABLE.
ORIGINAL: Hudson Stremmel has conducted all types of auctions in his seven years as an auctioneer. He’s presided over dispersals of real estate and fine arts, vehicles, and estate sales, for his family’s business Stremmel Auctions.
ONLINE LISTING NOW AVAILABLE: https://stremmelauctions.hibid.com/auctions/
But an upcoming auction at a revered casino and resort in Stateline, Nevada, is giving him pause. When items from the Lakeside Inn and Casino go up for bid on March 4-7, it will mark the end of a 35-year run.
The Southshore Lake Tahoe resort closed permanently in April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“It’s tough, but we’re trying to put a good spin on it,” Stremmel said. “We’ve got the word out to the locals, and obviously they’re really sad. But they do get a chance to bid and win a piece of history, and there are so many things with sentimental value.”
Along with slot machines (only available to those with gaming licenses), there are poker tables, kitchen equipment, hotel furniture, vehicles, and Lakeside memorabilia up for bid.
One item that may draw interest is what’s being billed as the largest craps table in Nevada. Custom-built, it’s over 40-feet long.
“That’s a special piece,” Stremmel said.
There are also framed black-and-white photographs with historic and sentimental value that date back to the early 1900s. Before opening in 1985, Lakeside had previous incarnations as the Tahoe Sky Harbor, Fabulous Eddie’s Stardust Club, Caesar’s Inn, and Harvey’s Inn. The area’s first airport, Tahoe Sky Harbor Airport & Resort, opened in the late 1940s right next door to the resort.
Stremmel says a local historical society has already expressed interest in many of the photographs, including one of the first roads in Tahoe that stretched around Emerald Bay.
“We’ve also got a photo of the first airplane that landed in Tahoe,” Stremmel said. “There are things like that that are really neat. But it’s tough because of how many people have visited and what it’s been through.”
Stacy Noyes, the president of Lakeside since 2007, says her heart breaks every time she thinks about the shuttered venue. She remembers how the staff constantly worked to greet and embrace all customers, and mentions the mission statement that every employee had to memorize:
We at Lakeside Inn, anticipate and personally strive to exceed our guests’ expectations with friendliness, quality, innovation and fun.
“Each word has its own meaning and reason for being there,” Noyes said. “We would discuss these words and what they meant to us in new hire orientation, and over time, you would see the words take on their own meaning to the individuals.”
Two employees, housekeeping supervisor Patty Soleta, and Bob Schultz, the engineering supervisor, worked at Lakeside since it opened in 1985.
“They are institutions around here,” Noyes says of Soleta and Schultz. “I have never met two more dedicated, knowledgeable, and hard-working people in my entire career.
Stremmel anticipates that any items with the Lakeside logo, including playing cards and menus, will draw strong interest. The auction will feature no minimum bids and no reserves.
Since the Lakeside closed, Noyes often revisits the resort’s Facebook page. Regulars and visitors have posted memories about Lakeside’s “timber tree wooden walls,” honeymoons and anniversaries, and prime rib dinners.
One woman posted a memory about visits to Lakeside with her late mother; missing her and unable to sleep, the woman would return to the casino where staff would comfort her with hugs and Cherry Cokes.
“It will be a while before many of us can accept what our new normal will be after Lakeside,” Noyes says. “This place was special. It always will be.”
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| Born | September 18, 1844 Antwerp, New York, United States |
|---|---|
| Died | January 13, 1934 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Illustration, painting |
Notable work | Dogs Playing Poker |
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (September 18, 1844 – January 13, 1934) was an American artist, mainly known for his series of paintings Dogs Playing Poker. Known as 'Cash' or 'Kash' in his family, he often signed his work in the 19th century with the latter spelling, sometimes spelling his name, for comic effect, as Kash Koolidge.
Early life[edit]
Coolidge was born in Antwerp, New York to abolitionist Quaker farmers, and was raised in Philadelphia, New York.[1]
He had little formal training as an artist.
Career[edit]
After leaving the family farm in the early 1860s,[1] Coolidge had many careers. Between 1868 and 1872 he worked as a druggist and sign painter, founded a bank and a newspaper, then moved from Antwerp, New York, to Rochester, where he started painting dogs in human situations.[2]
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Editorial work[edit]
Coolidge began his art career in his twenties, one of his early jobs being the creation of cartoons for a local newspaper.
Comic foregrounds[edit]
He is credited[3] with creating 'comic foregrounds,' novelty photographs which combined a portrait of the sitter with a caricatured body, produced by the sitter holding between two sticks a canvas on which Coolidge drew or painted the caricature, which he patented.[4] The final product was similar to the photographs produced using photo stand-ins at midways and carnivals where people place their heads into openings in life-size caricatures.[5]
Calendar paintings[edit]
According to the advertising firmBrown & Bigelow, then primarily a producer of advertising calendars, Coolidge began his relationship with the firm in 1903. From the mid-1900s to the mid-1910s, Coolidge created a series of sixteen oil paintings for them, all of which featured anthropomorphic dogs, including nine paintings of Dogs Playing Poker,[6] a motif that Coolidge is credited with inventing.
The series of 16 commissioned paintings and their themes are:
- A Bachelor's Dog – reading the mail
- A Bold Bluff – poker
- Breach of Promise Suit – testifying in court
- A Friend in Need – poker, cheating
- His Station and Four Aces – poker
- New Year's Eve in Dogville – ballroom dancing
- One to Tie Two to Win – baseball
- Pinched with Four Aces – poker, illegal gambling
- Poker Sympathy – poker
- Post Mortem – poker, camaraderie
- The Reunion – smoking and drinking, camaraderie
- Riding the Goat – Masonic initiation
- Sitting up with a Sick Friend – poker, gender relations
- Stranger in Camp – poker, camping
- Ten Miles to a Garage – travel, car trouble, teamwork
- Waterloo – poker
Other paintings[edit]
Additional paintings in a similar vein include:
- Kelly Pool (ca. 1909) – pool
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Named for the then-common pool-game Kelly pool, Coolidge's painting of dogs playing pool may be considered a progenitor of another memeticpop-culture art genre, that of 'dogs playing pool.'
Auction Poker Game
Auction records[edit]
On February 15, 2006, two Coolidge paintings, A Bold Bluff and Waterloo, which may have been the originals of the paintings used by Brown & Bigelow, went on the auction block at Doyle New York. Expected to fetch between $30,000 and $50,000, the pair sold for $590,400. The result surpassed the previous auction record of $74,000 for a Coolidge.[7]
Coolidge's 1894 Poker Game realized $658,000 at a Sotheby's New York sale on 18 November 2015.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ abcBarry, Dan (June 14, 2002). 'Artist's Fame Is Fleeting, But Dog Poker Is Forever'. The New York Times. Retrieved Dec 6, 2012.
- ^'Did You Know? Dogs Playing Poker (Painting)'. Santa Cruz Public Library. December 18, 2007. Archived from the original on June 26, 2010. (quoted at blog dogs)
- ^Edwards, Phil (2015-05-29). 'Ever stick your face in a cutout? Meet the kitsch genius who invented them'. Vox.
Coolidge notes that technically what we think of as comic foregrounds today were around before his version. But thanks to his patent — and the marketing gusto to make both versions successful — he became famous as the inventor.
- ^Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1874), US149724A: Processes of Taking Photographic Pictures – via Wikimedia Commons
- ^McManus, James (December 3, 2005). 'Play It Close to the Muzzle and Paws on the Table'. The New York Times.
- ^'Dogs Playing Poker'. Ooo Woo – Complete Dog Resource. 2008. Archived from the original on April 11, 2017. Retrieved September 1, 2006.
- ^''Dogs Playing Poker' sell for $590K'. Money.com. CNN. February 16, 2005. Retrieved September 11, 2006.
- ^Jack, Moore (November 20, 2015). 'That Dogs Playing Poker Painting Just Sold for Over $650,000'. GQ.
Bibliography[edit]
- Davidson, Carla (February 1973). 'A Man's Life'. American Heritage. p. 56. ISSN0002-8738.
- Fredrickson, Gardner (2006). Poker Dogs: The Life and Work of C. M. Coolidge. Writers' Collective. ISBN978-1594110382.
External links[edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. |
- Works by Cassius M. Coolidge at Project Gutenberg
- Unofficial Cassius Coolidge biography from DogsPlayingPoker.org
- Cassius Marcellus Coolidge at Find a Grave