I can safely say one thing, this was the best weather that I have seen here since I started going to them about 5 years ago!
I started out at Kane County Fairgrounds this morning at about 8:30 a.m. and was surprised right off of the bat that there were even fewer vendors selling than I have ever seen before. I only counted (5) soda pop machines: (2) Pepsi Ideal 55's that were both missing the internals for $250, a bottom-rotted Cavalier 51 for $250, a 70's vintage Vendo Squaretop and a Vendo 27.
The 51 was 100% complete but the bottom was COMPLETELY rotted away as you can see in the picture. If you bought it and parted it out you'd be able to make your money back but it probably wouldn't be worth it. The only way I would buy it is if I already had a Cav 51 that I was restoring for somebody or myself and needed the parts.
There were probably 10-12 Jukeboxes. Mainly Wurlitzer's, Rock-Ola's and a couple of Seeburg's. I saw a few wallboxes only one of them being a 3W! and the others were older Seeburg's. There was a Large Seeburg Teardrop Speaker that had some serious body cracks that was selling for $1100.
I ended up walking away with nothing you could shove a coin in
I did however pick-up an old GE Fan for $20 bucks, an original aluminum wall mount for Victor Gumball machines in restored condition w/ lock & key for $15.00 and an old 1930's lard pail for $20. The lard pail was a spur of the moment kind of thing. We have some good friends that that are sort of into antiques and 50's vintage stuff and the name on the pail matched their last name so I grabbed it for them as a decorator item for their home.
As I was leaving Kane County Fairgrounds, I struck up a conversation with another collector and he asked me if I was going to the Antique Cash Register Show over at the Holiday Inn Express on Main Street in St. Charles. I decided to go check it out and was very surprised to find that there were more people there with a better selection of stuff than at Kane County!!!.
I spent about an hour there looking around at the cool old registers but the neatest thing there hands down was a 1948 Greyhound Bus that a guy is in the process of fixing-up/restoring. I ended up walking away with a ruby-red glass "EXIT" globe in awesome condition for $25. I've wanted one of those for awhile but they always seem to go sky high at the last minute on Ebay. I also didn't have to worry about paying any shipping or worry about it getting broken on the way.
I also got a chance to meet up with Tom from Jersey out in the lot, Great seeing him again. See you tonight at Portillo's!
