Saw the bookie barber (Herb Vigran) in a 1950 Burt Lancaster movie called 
"Mister 880."  He was playing a weight guesser on Coney Island.  Only charged a 
quarter.  Probably did make enough money guessing weight, that's when he turned 
to a life of bookmaking.

dan
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