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Anybody into vintage jukeboxes would have loved this item. It's a 1930's Wurlitzer jukebox, similar to model #412, made in 1936, but not exact, and I imagine is somewhat rare. It can make up to 12 selections, and plays 78 rpm records. |
and sold as a parts project. As you can clearly see, there are some parts missing, probably some that could be difficult to find. Final bid was $300. |
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This Kangaroo kiddie ride moves on a track and turns. It went for $115. |
This Williams early solid state pin, Lucky 7, went for $350. It worked intermittently throughout the auction, and was a bit rough. I was the only bidder on this Sport Center videogame on the left, an early example of a coin operated videogame, circa 1973. I got it for $10.
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This is a Pong style videogame, made by For Play, and is so rare, there is no record of it at Killer List Of Videogames (KLOV). Got it home, adjusted the horizontal and vertical hold on the Hitachi monitor, and got a picture, but haven't got it playable, not yet anyway. Shown on the monitor is Hockey, and you can also play Tennis. I'm guessing this game was made somewhere around 1973 or 1974, based on the fact KLOV shows a 2 player Pong style game called Rally, made by For Play in 1973, and it looks quite similar. |
I got this Acorn gumball machine, 60's vintage, for $20.
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I was the only bidder on this Milky Way miniature vending machine, which works on a quarter and a nickel together. I have to drill out the lock to test it, but for $15 I was willing to risk it;) The back of this machine has holes where you can hang this on a wall. |
I took home this World Cup playfield, mostly complete, for $5. Nobody else bid on it. I own a working World Cup pin, one of the first solid state pins I played, so this was quite a treat to find. |
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It's a gold mine of spare parts, and the wiring harness is actually intact. And no, the Bad Cats pin is not for sale. |
These two jukes did not work, and if I remember correctly, only the one on the left got a bid at $5. |
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So the auction was almost over for the day. I turn away for just a minute or two, and my girlfriend had bid on this Sonic Skill Crane, for, you guessed it, $5! She said it had worked when tested, but I never got around to trying it out there. ALWAYS bring a measuring tape with you to an auction, and measure the door width and height before you leave for a show or auction. Most cranes stand easily 6 ft tall, and this one was closer to 7 with the wheels on, so there was no way to stand it up, after barely fitting it into my van for the trip home. So it sat in my basement lying down until I was able to give it away on Sunday, rather than smash it. In transit, the crane fell off the track, but I did plug it in at home, and the crane tried to move around and then did stop, so it may have worked. Even had some toys still inside! |
The coin box by itself is quite heavy, as these can make money on location, so the box to take your quarters is very large. I think I could have stored a portion of my record collection in this box! |
