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Just wondering outside of soda related collecting what other items you collect?

 I collect items from the 5Os such as the all of furniture in my house as well as the patio furniture. I even have a collection of those springy ride ons that were at the parks. These are made of aluminum.

 Also have a air stream trailer in the back for the kids hang out and 3 cars from the 50s.

Two cool juke boxes too. Not much in the house is new other than the electronis,TV stereo and computer.
Even have a gas stove from the 50s to cook on.


 I also collect and restore vintage movie posters. I can take an old dirty poster and clean and repair to look like new.

I also do wood graining  like they had in the cars from the 30s to 50s.

what about you?

wood graining

I work at AT&T so naturally I collect Western Electric telephones... from the 20s-40s
Also have about 100+ vintage neckties left (was up to 500+)from the
1940s-50s collected during college... still pick them up from time to time.... LOVE them...
also a Superman fan from grade school...

VMC 81... that dash is killer... being an artist would love to learn that and car flames.

In South Dakota - pheasant and deer hunting .   Not much else to do here, so I have a room full of stuff...

I have about 10,000 matchbooks from the 50's through the 80's - coins - stamps.
I love the old vintage manuals and am getting a small collection built of them.
I have a bunch of vinyl LP's and prefer the sound over CD's.


Do you do this for other people or just as a hobby?

"I can take an old dirty poster and clean and repair to look like new.
I also do wood graining  like they had in the cars from the 30s to 50s."


  I do the poster work and wood graining as a side line for extra $$ helps to pay for new aquistions

I repair/flip riding mowers.  There are a lot of people around here that think just because it won't start, its worthless.  I can usually make a good $3-400 each, and the repairs are minimal.  I use the money to fund all of the other projects, whether is the soda machines or the Nova.

I collect some stuff from the WWII era.  I've got some ration books, stuff from the Maryland Militia (Home Guard that my grandad was in), patches, etc.  I also have a piece of Doolittle Raider #7 ("The Ruptured Duck").  A non-profit aircfart recovery group (TIGHAR) found The Duck in 1990 and cut some metal from it.  They sold 50 small pieces and gave a piece to Mrs. Ellen Lawson (Ted Lawson's widow.  Ted was the pilot of the plane.). 

I also am starting to collect gray hair.

I collect many things, as I've posted before...beer cans, early beer advertising, 1920's radios, victorian/mission furniture, kids (as it would seem   :biggrin:  ), and have old cars and a 1960 Avion trailer.

VMC 81...your house sounds alot like mine was, although mine was 1880s with a bit of modern electronics!  1950s is cool...we have a 1955 Chambers stove we can't wait to hook up and use!

here is the stove we currently use.

Nice!  Here's ours...

Cool stuff!!
Small canons, model rockets, viewmasters. And anything that catches the eye.
Creighton

I had a stove in one of my rental houses just like the 2 nd picture. I sold everything off it except for the stove. Man was that thing heavy :jawdrop:

Vintage coin Op. and Vintage dirtbikes. Several of the bikes are restored and I race them on the national vintage circuits.

here' a couple of photo's

One more

I collect civil defense things like geiger counters and  things like that. So far I have about 5 different counters and a ton of old documents telling fallout shelter locations, evacuation plans, and other stuff like that. I also have a collection of old telephones and I also have some bowling stuff like my working score projector. Just starting the collection with my pepsi machine.

Collecting vintage soda pop advertising since 1975. Collected every brand in the beginning, then switched to just Coke. Now that it is so expensive, I now focus on certain paper items, any brand. Unused menu sheets, letterheads, envelopes. Got my daughter (10 yr old) sharing my bottle cap collection.
I have 4 EM pinball machines and good size collcetion of PEZ dispensers.
Terry

Besides Coin Op machines, I started out collecting Coca-Cola Advertising, Hence my username, Signguy,,, I had over 200 original Near mint, and NOS signs in the collection at one time.. Sold a bunch and bought my 1959 Corvette with the profits (yeah.. had some high dollar signs).. but stll have over 30 Really nice original signs in the collection. I just recently started buying a few more signs, just need more wall space! Attached are some older photos, a few more updates since then but no new photos..

I collect vintage advertising. I try collecting mostly Coca-Cola signs. Also collect old U.S. coins. I use to collect marbles years back, and now my 7 year old daughter is wanting to collect marbles again. So it looks like I'll be helping her to start a collection. Also use to refinish a lot of antique furniture years back. Still have a house full of antique furniture.

Early American/Victorian Furniture (most of which I have refinished or cleaned up well), country store collectibles, scales, primitives, old coins, advertising, gumball and peanut machines.

Besides the new interest in soda machines I am a collector of brewery related signage and clocks.  Sold off a lot of it over the years - stuff I wasn't really interested in anymore, but got some really nice things that I will never part with. 

I collect any old signage and advertising clocks that catch my eye.  Also vintage neon signs are a favorite. 

I also collect advertising things to do with my hometown of St. Charles, MO....so if anybody has any signs for Big Boy Soda please let me know...also St. Charles dairy...the ultimate would be a neon sign from the dairy.  If anybody has a lead on one of these or a Big Boy sign I am interested! 

I collect arcade games.. I'm up to 9 or so right now. I also collect anything thats free. My wife calls me Fred Sandford...

I collect Shot glasses last count  2 months back  850  and thanks To Josh & Dave the Birdman for getting
me some Hardrock shot glasses .

  I also like to collect the the wall mount bottle openers don't have a lot yet but working on it.
also Like to collect old hand tools  The Stamped Ford tools and wood handle tools screw drivers
hand held drills  . :smile:


  OH YEAH !!  and a few soda machines  :biggrin:.

I collect classic video games (coin-op and Atari 2600).  I have about 300 different Atari games and the coin-ops are spilling over into the in-law's basement. I also colect records.  I started in the early 80's by picking up a couple of new 45's each week.  Now I tell my wife that I need some new tunes for the jukebox! (http://www.brentsarcade.com/smilies/santa.gif)

My wife & I have some hot rod cars and that naturally led to restoring gas pumps, etc and that led to restoring soda machines and picnic coolers.  Kind of a progressive disease.  I'm currently restoring a 1950's EZ Kutr electric reel type lawnmower for a friend.  I will post pics if anyone is interested.

Nice  one of these days I will get a gas pump as well as a one of the air meteres. Just seems that around by me these are always priced like they are made of gold. But I keep looking.

Love the '59, one of my favorite cars.