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« on: May 18, 2008, 07:01:02 pm »

Hey all!  I haven't seen this question posted here, at least not recently that I can find.  We seem to get little hints and mentions in other posts of the other things that folks collect.  I thought it would be cool to see what else SMC members collect besides soda machines!

For me, I've been a collector ever since I can remember.  I started with the usual coins, stamps, bottle caps and license plates.  Since then, I've moved on to bigger and better things.  Aside from soda machines, I collect beer cans (cone tops/flat tops), pre-prohibition beer trays, Western split (8 ounce) 1890s beer bottles, micro-beer labels that I have drank, 1920s radios (also restore), Victorian and Mission furniture, early Boy Scout patches, and anything else that strikes my fancy.  I also have a 1929 Ford Model A, 1950 Ford F-1 truck and a 1959 Ford Galaxie.  My other passion is restoring old houses.  I have lived in and done restoration on houses from 1884, 1891, 1912, 1913, 1904 and my current one from 1918!  This is likely what I will do once I retire from the Air Force in a couple years (and complete my Masters in Historic Preservation).  Below is a picture of a small part of my 2,500+ beer can collection!

Can't wait to learn about everyone else!  Happy collecting!
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« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2008, 08:16:51 pm »

I collect, restore and race vintage dirtbikes in my spare time.
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« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2008, 09:39:01 pm »

I am pretty common I guess - coins, stamps, soda machines.
I inherited a pretty big stamp 'block' collection from my dad and some older singles - once my kids get older I hope to continue
I started collecting music items - mainly Stevie Ray Vaughan memorabilia in the mid-late 80's and have over 60 of his items including several early vinyl (not with Double Trouble) and a very rare Christmas Tree ornament (ball) put out by the Texas Highway Department as a promotional item in 1986 that has SRV's picture on one side and his brother Jimmie on the other (I do not hang it on the tree!). Don't really do much with that hobby anymore - got the bug when CD's started taking over.
Kids definately put a damper on some of the hobbies
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2008, 10:56:12 pm »

As a kid I collected anything Superman after the movie came out.... then while in college
I watched a lot of “Night Court” with Harry Anderson and got the Vintage Necktie (140s50s)
bug I had only around 500+- ties including some of Salvador Dali's designs which I've kept
but have mowed it way down to only about 100-150 ties (But just found 3 sweet ones last week)...
but are hard to find anymore as the age group has all but passed on. But I met a bunch of wonderful older gentlemen and widows with some great stories... One widow who answered a tie ad was at Pearl Harbor where her husband was stationed.... awesome stories from her ... I now watch ebay and check the stores when hunting for coolers and machines.....
Also collect Western Electric telephones.... favorite model is the 302... have 6 of those with
12 phones in all.... (I also cut those way back as I had about 25 at one time.)
few gumball machines, a couple gas pumps and soda stuff all being/needing restored...
I'll shoot some images of the ties sometime great wild designs! Love 'em!

Ok ... next.... smile
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« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2008, 11:03:19 pm »

We'll be sides the obvious Soda Machines, I collect all sorts of Coin Op stuff and other stuff that is just TOO COOL not to have. I have Candy machines, Peanut Machines, Jukeboxes, Orignal Ms Pacman arcade game, Vintage Gas Pumps, a 1959 Corvette but my main interest that got me into collecting was orignal Coca-Cola Advertising signs. I have over 100 Near mint original Signs Dating as early as the 30's into the early 60's. Just Tin, Cardboard and Porcelain, a few clocks and lightups but nothing past the early 60's or with "Enjoy" on it!!!
I didn't live in the 50's, but most of my friends/family think I should have as  I Have a love if all of it!!! I have some photos of my collection on the photo page, or at www.cokenstuff.com
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« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2008, 12:42:08 am »

Fun Thread!
Don't really collect anything in particular anymore. If it is cool and not too heavy it may get brought home :-). Have done red line hotwheels, any coin-op, stamps,coins and BB cards, phones... etc. in the past. Spending most of the free time getting the 1964 Serro Scotty camper up to the next level and finding the last bits to complete a few soda machines.
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« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2008, 05:44:53 am »

Let's see, Coins is really where I got my start. I haven't played with them much lateley but my interest is starting to pick up again in that area. Old Soda Pop machines was next and that opened up a whole new garage door into the world of antiques and collectables! From old phones, tube-type radios, antique electronic test equipment to just about anything that you can stick a coin in to include pinball machines, bingo machines and so much more!  biggrin
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« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2008, 07:19:32 am »

Here's my beer can collection.  Oo tounge Some people like collecting full cans, I like to empty them first.  Actually, that's not my living room, but it is somebodys who's probably not married!!

The first thing that I collected was baseball cards.  In third grade my buddies mom worked with my mom, and her one son was killed in Nam.  Well she gave my mom his doubles that he kept.  Yogi Berra, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, etc.  All the cards were hall of famers.  Too bad someone stole them.  darn   veryangry All the cards were from the fifties.

Then I collected coins and old bills.  I had every one of those coin books filled up to 1973, which was the year at that time.  I had proof sets from the fifties up and bills dating back to the late 1800's.  Too bad someone stole those too. darn veryangry

The I bumped into a Coke machine (to big for a thief to put in their pocket) and a year or two later, 1985, I picked up my first Coke coin op machine, the VMC 72.  A few years later I won (actually, the wife won.....that's why I married her) a Wurlitzer jukebox from a local oldies radio station.

My life was complete  biggrin until ten years later a co-worker gave me a shuffle alley.  Once I finished school and figured out a little about electric, I fixed that one and bought more and more EM games.  I now have a ball bowler, shuffle alley, baseball machine, pinball machine, console slots, jukebox, popcorn machines , candy machines, gum machines, nut machines, cigarette machine, cigar machine, pachinkos, racing game, shooting gallery, motion beer signs, and a few more Coke machines.

And I believe that I'm not done collecting!! There's still room somewhere???help
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« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2008, 10:54:43 am »

     Wow Larry, wonder if they find that guy alive under all those beer cans?   tounge

     So was it a home robbery someone stole your coins and stamps?
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« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2008, 11:16:39 am »

My cards and coins were an inside job.  My guess is my brother or an old neighbor.  Either way, they're gone.

The house with the beer cans came from an email from a friend.  I guess the renter was paying the rent on time and kept to himself, but one day someone complained about an odor.  Eight years of drinking and 70,000 cans later, they finally cleaned up the place.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/odd/beercans.asp
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