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   All Right !! First It was A GREAT show this year ..I met lots of New Members .And Hung out with some Friends !! The Dinner Was Great And there was A huge Turn out .Thanks Everyone for Coming . On Friday It was Also Great seeing all the Stuff for sale .But In my case I don't get Up at 4:00 am  :Oo: I show up after Daybreak And After Brian's Trailer was Emptied LOL .:)

 Then While I'm There Friday Night It's Off To Larry's To Invade his House !!! i look forward Every Year To Visit Larry & Kim Who are the Best Host .A Huge HUGE THANK YOU to them for there Hospitality And Allowing Me And The Gang to Vist And Eat Popcorn from The Popperett  & Cold Drings From The Coke Machine & Rosted Hot Nuts From Another Need Machine . And Great Tunes From The Jukes !!!!! ITS a Blast (Sorry About Keeping You Up Late !! )
Larry Was Also Holding Something For Me For 4-5 Month Which Brian Picked up On his way outa town Friday Afternoon .Thanks Again  :smile:

A few Pictures .

 And A couple More Of The Gang !!

Who Is This  Hum ?   Slider Bob ? NO Its Bowler Bob !!   In The Back Ground Far Left Is Larrys Wife Kim & My Wife Sue

And His Friend PinBall Pat !!

 

And A couple More

Great Cool Juke Box  !!!

Pat

  And Of Corse The Man of the Game Room LARRY !!! In the Middle In White . Pat on the left Slider Bob in the Back Right An Me on the Right .

Cool! Nothing better than great friends and old machines!!!

Looks like a great time. The bowler alone would entertain me for awhile.

Super nice collection  :jawdrop: Looks like a good time had by all.

It was good Thursday night meeting up with old friends and got to meet some New friends, finally putting a voice with a face (Jim)
Friday morning was great (4:30 AM  )  it was good there was alot of stuff  nothing that jumped out there , Then Friday Night over at
Larry & Kim's home  ( and again thanks for having us )  it was a good time there . even when we went out for dinner  ( cant remember the
name of the restaurant) but that was good  and that was a cool place all the chandlers they were all different .
 We found out Bob does not do olives Pat does not do onions and Leonard does not do  staples (HA HA HA)

Larry
  The High Hand looks like it turned out quite nice. I don't see the metal typer or the tall Dugrenier though!
Tom

Thanks for the pics. Larry, you have a bunch of nice machines, Congrats!!
Creighton

 

There are a few machines I didn't get pictures of like Big Blue the Vendo ice cream machine . And In the one picture with Pat in it after the Cool juke box in the white cabinet behind Pat is one of probely less the 50 knowen Roulet wheel games & it pays out . If Larry reads this I hope he'll  explain it better them me  :tounge:

Special thanks to Larry and his wife Kim for having us over.  And thanks to Leonard, Sue and Pat for letting me tag along with them.  Had a blast!

I have pics on my cell that I will send to Leonard and Pat for resizing/posting.  You guys said photos were not to be posted, or the secret would be out on the great amount of machines that Larry has...incredible!

The jig is up... :laugh:.

Yeah, it was great having Leonard, Sue, Pat, and Bob over on Friday.  It was a crazy weekend for me.  I had a bit of a snafu that caused me to miss the dinner.  After loading up my van with four machines for an em buddy of mine, I had to unload them because he called afterwards and said that his plans changed and that he could no longer meet me.  By that time, I got into my car and the expressway was packed.  So I thought I would take the side streets for thirty plus miles, that didn't pan out either so I decided to stay home.  I really wanted to hook up with my old buddies and meet some new ones, but that didn't work out.  Anyone who has ever came over to my house from Pheasant Run knows about the traffic :down:, and I'm past downtown...go figure.

Anyway, I did get to hang out with some of the guys from the site, that's always a fun time.  I usually try to come up with some local pizza joints that are off the beaten path.  This time I chose Gullivers.  They have awesome deep dish, stuffed, or regular pizza.  The decor is a bunch of odds and ends stuck in every knook and crany of this place, tons of chandeliers, bust, carved wood faces, etc.  Everywhere you look you find something odd.  We ordered a few pizzas.....they screwed up on Bob's and Pat's, then they dropped a staple on our pizza.  Leonard was the lucky one.  It was a shame because it always has been a flawless experience.  The food was still good and we all had a lot of laughs. 

I'm glad you guys enjoyed the machines.  Usually, people look at them and are affraid to use them.  I have the hardest time getting people to play them.  They think there going to break them.  That's O.K. because I know someone who can fix them. :biggrin:  Bob wasn't shy at all he played them all which I enjoyed.  I should thank you guys for coming and playing the machines.  They just usually sit there waiting for someone to drop a coin in.  My kids friends never play them.  If you can't stare at the T.V. and use your thumbs, I guess, to them, it's no fun.

Tom....The DuGrenier is in my garage waiting for me.  The metal Typer is in the basement, by my chimney,waiting it's turn, and my Stoner coffee machine needs to have the boiler torn apart and cleaned.  Thanks Tom for your help in getting me the machines.  You're always welcome to come over anytime you're in town too.  Actually, anyone can come over.  I'll just put more beer in the machines.

I have you logged on my US tour 2015... Gotta play those machines of yours.. Going to try and get the tour sorted for the April show... Dave

I like all of the beer signs, and the fact that Pat's phone looks dry (sorry). I have the same Blatz unicycle guy in my gameroom!

Let us know your tour plans Dave. I live about 45 minutes southeast of Chicago.