Bookie was THE best, just the best.  I met Bookie in 1962 at Willow Bowl and it was because of him and a few others in the group that kept me there for years.  I remember when he and Ronnie Atkins took over Plaza Bowl and I visited there as well.  I was lucky enough to run into him in the grocery store a number of times when we both were living in New Kent. He will be so missed, I know.