Archive photo of the day
ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYFrank Sinatra, 1985
Stars and Stripes
September 16, 2018
Ken George ©Stars and StripesTokyo, April, 1985: Frank Sinatra entertains the crowd during the second of his three shows at Tokyo's Budokan Hall. A fourth Tokyo appearance, at the Imperial Hotel, featured a top ticket price of about $580 — leading Stripes writer Hal Drake to note that for the same amount, one could go to the local exchange and buy "a rolltop desk of heirloom quality, made by the masters of hand-tooled mahogany in the Philippines."