Two new toys for me!!

[johnnyselman]

 I picked these up a few weeks ago. I'm a sucker for all things coin operated. The first is a 1956 Chicago Coin "Steam Shovel". Fill the hoper to try to get as many tons of gravel(actualy beans) as you can!  Next is 1960 Midway "Shooting Gallery". Actual shoots 11/16 plastic balls! vacumm/air powered. 4 owls that drop when hit, 6 ducks going around on a chain that also drops and a bear that pops up and moves side to side very erraticly.

[cokecolaman]

You gotta love that kind of stuff!

[flippa]

Very cool.  

THere used to be a similar steam shovel game in the Fun Barn arcade in Dennisport MA up to a few years ago.  I believe they used to have the shooting game too, or something real close to it.  

What a great place that was, there were a ton of old arcade games & pinballs and a few video games.  Mini golf and pitch & putt outside.  I loved that place as a kid.

Where did you find them?

[scalebowler]

Thats pretty awesome! I remember a game that they used to have at chucke cheese when I was younger that was very similar to that steam shovel game. I think for that one you had to scoop up these plastic balls and dump them on a conveyor and they would fill up this area and if it got above a certain line then you got some tickets or something like that.

[rayg]

Very Cool ! Cedar Point in Sandusky,OH has a real nice large old arcade with allot of old games like these.

[BrianS]

Johnny,

Can you share how much the steam shovel game was?  I met a couple guys two years ago that travel around the midwest as a team looking for old pinballs to restore. Part time pickers looking for coinop arcade stuff.  They have two of those in their own personal arcade, one for each of them, and they are way cool.  I have been looking for one ever since.  They had dried corn in theirs because it was cheaper to fill up the bottom with , but I believe they said it was actually supposed to have lentil beans because the lentils look more like gravel.  Congrats on the find - it looks like it is in great shape.  How did you find it?

[collecture]

Johnny,
The gun game is just begging for attention way over there separated from the rest of the games. I have the perfect spot for it where it will be loved!
Great game - I remember it as a kid! They both are great finds....Congrats and do tell!

[Funtronics]

Love the crane game. I bought a crane game a few weeks back and my daughter loves it. 

[Larry]

The Midway shooting galleries are awesome.  The best gun games out there.  Dale styles are good, but being able to shoot actual balls at a moving target is priceless.

The crane looks cool too, but although the crane is probably valued more than the gun game, I would take the gun game over the crane, anyday.  Thay are just that cool.

[bubba]

I love them both.. awesome finds!! Curios about the pricing as well!