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11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - As the drawing dinner gets doing, the Bottarini table is the first on the left; Dick Johnson, chairman, is standing left-center down the aisle
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Ticket purchasers, and guests, enjoy the roving accordian player, John Fiore.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - On left: Diane (seated) & Dick Johnson (standing); nearest table: the Bottarini clan with Estelle (purple vest) & Charlie Bottarini; center in very back looking at camera: Leila Roussell; on right in back: Al Gentile (bending over) with Bill Graziano, seated 2nd on his left.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Guests from the back corner of the room: Helen Habeeb, center in black leather coat; in back, right center, is Bre Jones visiting the Bottarini table; Dick Johnson, center behind table, doing paper work for the raffle.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Guests enjoying: left-center, standing with gray sweater: Arline Thomas; standing right: Art Pignati and Al Gentile talking; also in the picture: Dick Johnson, Bre Jones, Charlie Bottarini, Diane Johnson, and LaVerne Cheso.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Numbered ping-pong drawing balls all sorted and ready to be placed in the drawing drum. We allowed those ticket holders present to place their own numbers in the drum.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - All 275 numbered drawing ping-pong balls; numbers coordiating with unsold tickets were not placed in the drawing drum.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Charlie Bottarini, left, walking toward the drawing drum, and Dick Johnson announcing that ticket holders can place their numbered balls into the drawing drum.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Ticket holders picking their numbered balls and waiting in line to place them in the drum under the watchful eye of Charlie Bottarini.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - A ticket holder asking Charlie Bottarini if his is a guaranteed winner. Perhaps. Al Gentile just over the ticket holder’s shoulder.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Many of the drawing balls ready to be drawn.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Charlie Bottarini mixing them up.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Margot Clews drawing a winner with the help of Charlie Bottarini. As the winners were drawn, the ball was placed in a numbered carton, then, when all had been drawn, they were announced from last prize to Grand Prize.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Charlie Bottarini mixing them up while waiting for the next person to draw a winner.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Margot Clews drawing a winner with the help of Charlie Bottarini. As the winners were drawn, the ball was placed in a numbered carton, then, when all had been drawn and winner confirmed from a corresponding list, they were announced from last prize to Grand Prize.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Dick Johnson looks on as Bre Jones draws another winner while Charlie Bottarini holds the door open.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Dutch Blanchard draws a winner as Charlie Bottarini holds the door. Robert Quinn is seated on the left in a blue sweater.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - An out-of-focus Al Gentile draws the next winner with Charlie Bottarini.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - A happy Joe Farrah thinks he may have drawn his own number, later to find out he didn’t win; Charlie Bottarini keeping a close eye.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Charlie Bottarini, right, hands Dick Johnson the next winning number. Announcing the winners was a bit clunky as they had to look up the number on a list to see who won.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Accordianist John Fiore taking a break while the drawing happens.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Dick Johnson congratulates a winner while making sure of the numbers; Bre Jones is just over Dick’s arm; table to right of winner, l to r: Bill Stipinovich, Kathy & George Salet, and Robert Quinn.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Charlie Bottarini, right, hands Dick Johnson the next winning number.
11/28/10 - 32nd Annual Giulio Francesconi Charity Raffle - Upstairs Ballroom, Italian American Social Club, San Francisco - Dick Johnson, left, congratulates a winner. Back, near column, is Diane Johnson; to right of winner is Bre Jones and Estelle Bottarini.
