What else do you collect?

[jasmine64]

I collect coins, stamps and lately way too many clipart kits.

Used to find old watches at yard sales and old shops but alot of people got into it to
strip them of gold and toss the rest.

I'd love to collect 70-80's silver pioneer stereos but hubby say NO to that. I do have 1 a small SX 580 it need cleaning though and the wiring checked out. Been sitting in the stereo cabinet for a while.

[vend_dr]

Hey GreginTex are you a member of the BCCA? Even though I no longer collect beer cans (I do still dabble in beer gallon cans though)  I am still a member. I made the switch to soda cans 10 to 12 years ago at the time they were cheaper than beer cans so you could pick up nice examples cheaply. Times change though and soda cans are becoming expensive to pick up too.

I mostly collect Minnesota produced cans and Shasta Cans I have over 1200 different Shasta cans and 500 or so different Minnesota cans.

Here are a couple of pictures of my collection

[mznb1u]

Great topic!

My collections:

1.  Many cigar boxes that I have accumulated over the past 15 years.

2.  I also was very into collecting 1/64 die-cast Nascar cars back in the early 90's.  They are all boxed away still in the bubble wraps (100 to 200).  Someday I will probably bring those out and sell them. 

3.  My oldest collection is my beer-can collection from the 70's (100 to 200 cans).  They will go on display when I get the basement completed.  I don't think I have too many rare ones but they were all found by me on the beach or along the road well before I could enjoy the contents inside.  Probably the rarest is a steel Budweiser that was printed upside down.  Found that in a six pack at my dad's drugstore just before a guy bought the six-pack!  That one still has the beer in it and the pull tab in place!

4.  Used to have a pretty good baseball card collection but those got sold for way too little when I was strapped for cash during college!  I would not want to know what they were really worth.

5.  My newest collection is my two Coke Machines along with many Stroh's Beer signs from the 50's, 60's and 70's!

Hey, I guess these hobbies are all better than collecting wives and divorces or worse yet--collecting dust! 

Tim

PS--I forgot my UM football ticket stub collection--1980 to present!  Favorite stub from the 1998 Rose Bowl!

[aspbear]

Besides the soda machines,  I collect Griesedieck Brothers Beer advertising and memorbila.  It was a very large brewery at one time before it was bought out in 1959 by Falstaff.  I also collect Arkansas State Police memorbila patches, badges, pictures etc.

This was a great topic.

[vend_dr]

I collect Griesedieck Brothers Beer advertising and memorbila.  It was a very large brewery at one time before it was bought out in 1959 by Falstaff. 
This was a great topic.

It is my understanding that Griesedieck Beer is being bottled again (or they are planning on bottling it) in Wisconsin for the Griesedieck family. This info came from a employee at Griesedieck Vending in St Louis that I talk to from time to time.

[GreginNM]

Hey GreginTex are you a member of the BCCA?

Vend_dr, I am a member and have been one for over 10 years (other than a couple years recently with all my moves and deployments).  I have some soda cans, but not many.  I used to dump those Shasta flats all the time in California growing up.  They are still boxed up.

Great collections so far!!

[halehouse]

I have a small collection of "pop" bottles from Youngstown, Ohio.

Then, things for the gameroom. Signs, a pitch and bat, cocktail table video game.

[aspbear]

Vend dr, you are right they are already starting to bottle griesedieck again (you could still get on draught in st louis).  My son who had done a show in St Louis recently brought me back a 6 pack of bar bottles freshly brewed.  They are using one of the old labels and even starting to reproduce some of the advertising.  I got started collecting it because when I was a kid I listened to the St. Louis Cardinals on radio and they were always sponorsed by Papa Joe Griesedieck and there logo is a shield with the initials G B, which is my name.  It is a very smooth ale type beer.

[aspbear]

Dan, great signs is the one shaped like a bottle capr with the wire ring around it, is it a clock or thermometer.  I have never seen one like that it looks very unique...

[Curless Auto Repair]

Let's see....

Cars:
1929 Model A Business Coupe
1955 Caddy Eldorado
1958 Corvette
1966 Tempest
1985 Tube Chassis S-10
1991 Mustang LX 5.0 (blown)

Tractors:
1936 John Deere A
1942-45 John Deere A (war time tag missing don't know for sure)
1955 John Deere 60

COKE....Yeah right I have no idea how much stuff I have but I do have a rather large collection 6-packs, over 100 different unopened six picks. I have all square top machines, about 5 of them, 2 Westing house coolers, and who knows how much other "stuff" that has been given to me as gifts.

Cig machine, candy machine, gas pumps, tire flators, panty hose machine, ect...

But my real problem is Snap On......I love sockets! I am addicted to them, if it's new, deep, shallow, in between, swivel, chrome, black, 1/4,3/8, or 1/2 inch I NEED IT!

I need to have a sale, never wrote it all down before...hope the wife doesn't read this!