US 25cents quarters

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thank you for the link to e-bay UK. your just making me spend more money......
Dave (mrslot1) has been trying to get me to go o the Chicago land show for the past few years. maybe I'll plan on it for next year also.
thank you again for the information.
jeff H.

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Isnt there a fall chicagoland show in November as well around the 11th and 12th?

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Isnt there a fall chicagoland show in November as well around the 11th and 12th?

Yes & the 13th also.

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Oh I have attended the fall show a few times. It was a long time ago but when the weather is bad in Chicago then it is really bad. The parking lot was thick with snow. So cold I think the thermometer froze. Hard to walk or drive in the snow. If I do go back next year then for sure it will be in April.

Sorry guys but 25 years ago I was in to juke boxes, Coca Cola & Neon signs. I liked anything coin operated and of course also slot machines. I was fortunate enough to see an original Liberty Bell for sale at one of the Chicago land shows. It goes without saying that the price was astronomical but I think that only 4 are known to exist?

People that I remember from 19 - 25 years ago from the show.

Marshall Fey
Frank Zygmunt (always dressed in a suit & looking very smart)
Bernie Berten (Had the no 1 stand)
Joe Crogan ( a very fine restorer of Wurlitzer juke boxes)
Paul & Ann Biecher (Home Arcade) Nice friendly people
Bill Butterfield ( Who could possibly know more about scales)
Steve (neon Guy)
Steve Gronowski (was the show promoter then) I attended a few of his after show parties. He had a full size diner, and the most ornate long bar in his basement. Has a genuine tommy gun on the bar counter. I could not resist picking it up. The thing was so heavy I nearly dropped it. How you could actually hold the thing up and shoot it without collapsing beats me.

So those are my memories of Chicago land 19 - 25 years ago. There were so much coin operated stuff at the show then that 2/3 rds of it was out in the parking lot waiting for stuff inside to be sold so that they could bring in more stuff from outside. Those were the days or were they!
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