Left: The club owns two cats. This one had just suffered a miscarriage. The members were sad, as they had promised the kittens to kids in the neighbourhood.
Right: The gamblers are very superstitious, believing numbers have meaning. One of them -Patty- once won $25,000 by betting on his birth date. 048 is the "Italian death number", 342 the "God help me number", and 214 simply spells out BAD. Allie, walking behind, is the unofficial bookie. He checks the papers daily for race results and updates the bet listings on the dry-erase board.