[Dixielandjazz] Frank Sinatra driver license at auction

[Robert Ringwald]

Not exactly OKOM, but interesting.


Frank Sinatra's First NJ Driver's License on the Auction Block
by Vicki Hyman
Newark Star-Ledger, June 24, 2014
Frank Sinatra may be forever associated with New York (New York), but he was a Hoboken
boy, and you can own the paper that proves it. Ol' Blue Eyes' first New Jersey driver's
license is part of an auction of Hollywood memorabilia by the Boston-based RR Auction.
The yellowed, text-only 1934 license was issued, typo and all, to Francis Sintra,
841 Garden St., Hoboken, N.J., and was signed by the 19-year-old Sinatra (5 foot,
8 inches tall, 130 pounds, brown haired, and, yes, blue-eyed). The license was issued
a year before Sinatra got his first big break in the music industry.
The lot also also includes a 1940 letter to the state Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
from the lawyer of a man who had been involved in a car crash with Sinatra. The lawyer
says Sinatra was found at fault but failed to pay damages beyond an initial remittance
of $7.50, and asks that Sinatra's driving privileges be revoked until he pays up.
The minimum bid for the lot was $500; bidding as of this afternoon is up to $2,541.
The auction also includes Marilyn Monroe's notated script for "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,"
a Steve McQueen corduroy blazer, signed publicity photos, and the "Black Beauty"
1965 Chrysler Imperial from 2011's "The Green Hornet," complete with two hood-mounted
Browning .30 cal machine guns, which, when hooked up to a propane tank, fires flames.
That lot is now up to $37,982 -- no word on what the insurance will run you.
Photo:
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2014/06/frank_sinatra_new_jersey_drivers_license_auction.html
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