Collections outlets for amusement, ardor

One would think someone with Sandy Jones’ passion for collecting gangster memorabilia would remember where his fascination started. But he doesn’t.

Perhaps it started when Jones was a kid, and history class consisted of learning about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. He thought that was boring. No, Jones was more interested in the colorful characters of America’s past, like Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson “the bad guys,” of the 1920s and ‘30s, as Jones calls them.

Jones said he has one of the largest collections of Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger memorabilia in…