Coin -opp show

[BrianB]

Welp, made it to the last few hours of the Kane Cty. show today. Got to see a bunch of really cool signage and a dozen juke's. We'll make it back tomorrow at 9am for the second day to see if anybody else shows up.

It was nice and sunny but windy as all get out! That darn cold front pushed through today making for much lower temps. It's pretty neat driving around town and checking out the various hotel parking lots to see all of the open top trailers spilling over with stuff! I'll try and snap some pic's tomorrow at Kane Cty.

[Eric]

Ok I'm heading out in a few hours to the Chicago Show Going to meet up with Dr Galaga
in the Lobby where you buy tickets and get your hand stamped for the show at
12:00 noon Saturday... anybody else coming (if you can) show up then!
See you then Doc!

Eric

[dr galaga]

Have a safe trip Eric (and everyone else).

[dr galaga]

Caught up with Eric and his wife at the show.  About an average show.  Mostly restored machines and ones that were converted to beer machines.  Saw a few half-a...... beer machines - one with a neon sign '>
One vendor had a bunch of square tops in the parking lot.  There was also a restored Victor Kooler-Grill in the lobby (probably just on display).
Went home with 2 wallboxes for my juke and 4 cases of glass bottled soda.  I'm not much of a lemon-lime guy, but Bubble Up with pure cane sugar is pretty darn good!
Eric has some pics he is going to post later.

[BrianB]

The Chicago show was GREAT! I went with a guy who has been going since the show first got it's start and he made the comment that it was one of the best show's he'd ever seen. The attendance was high and there were A TON of unrestored round top's plus a whole lot of signage, candy machines, juke's, pinball's, dispensers and everything else you could imagine!

We got there at around 5:45 am on Friday to start checkin' things out. Everytime a new truck opened it's door up it was like a swarm of moths around a newly turned on light, it was great! We left at about 11 am, didn't even bother going inside. I figured that everything that I would be interested in was outside. Here's some pic's!

[BrianB]

More pic's!

[BrianB]

More pic's!

[BrianB]

Even more!

[BrianB]

Some more, check out the embossed Hire's chest.

[BrianB]

More!