Our Fall Chicagoland Show scheduled for November 13-15, 2020 has been cancelled due to COVID-19. The Chicagoland Antique Advertising, Slot-Machine and Jukebox Show, also known as the Coin Op Show and the Jukebox Show, is the largest show of its type in the world! It’s very popular with dealers and collectors from across the country and around the world for its wide range of high-quality antique collectibles.
If you're game for fun and games and want to recapture the rapture of your youth, don't miss the Chicagoland Antique Advertising, Slot Machine & Jukebox Show from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Pheasant Run Mega Center & Pavilion Building on Illinois Highway 64 (North Avenue) in St. Charles. Admission is $5. A dealer preview will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday with an admission of $50 for those who can't wait to get at the goodies.
Goodies include colorful circus and carnival items, oldtime advertisements, neon signs and clocks, saloon and barbershop furnishings, country store items, movie memorabilia, scales, pedal cars, breweriana, beer signs, and Coke, candy, gumball, peanut and penny arcade machines. Also, vending machines made to dispense any and everything, every kind of slot machine and jukebox, plus countless other collectibles.
Antique Advertising Tins
Aside from being enormously educational, the show (produced with great gusto and spirit by Steve Gronowski and Bob Strauss) is one heck of an exciting and emotional experience. Even moi has been reduced to tears hearing those old and unforgettable Platters played on jukeboxes, bringing back dreamy teenage memories.
If you dig old jukeboxes, you'll like the price guide for such examples in 'A Blast From the Past: Jukeboxes, A Pictorial Price Guide,' edited by Scott Wood, available for $16.95 postpaid from L-W Book Sales, P.O. Box 69, Gas City, Ind. 46933, or phone 800-777-6450 to order. Also write Rick Botts in care of his terrific monthly Jukebox Collector Newsletter, 2545 S.E. 60th Ct., Des Moines, Ia. 50317. Enclose an addressed, stamped envelope for subscription information or $15 for a copy of his 'Complete Identification Guide to the Wurlitzer Jukebox,' or phone him at 515-265-8324.
To inquire about jukeboxes or slot machines, stop and see Gronowski and Strauss at the show, or write them at R&S Promotions Inc., R.R. 7 Bateman Circle South, Barrington Hills, Ill. 60010, to buy or sell jukeboxes and slot machines or get them repaired. Phone 708-381-1234.
Information on all types of slot machines can be found in the informative Classic Amusements published bimonthly for $36 a year from editor Richard Bueschel, 414 N. Prospect Manor Ave., Mt. Prospect, Ill. 60056-2049. Also available from Bueschel for $95 postpaid is his huge, definitive two-volume set of 'Jennings Slot Machines 1906-1990: Illustrated Historical, Maintenance and Repair Guide to Jennings Mechanical and Electromechanical 3-Reel Bell Machines,' which can turn a Jennings know-nothing into a know-it-all.
You'll also gain a great education and enjoy 'Bueschel's Saloon Series: B.A. Stevens Billiard and Bar Goods,' which includes five reproductions of B.A. Stevens Co. informative catalogs dating from 1885 to 1902 available for $32.95 postpaid from Bueschel. Or write him enclosing an addressed, stamped envelope for a list of his other books, or stop and see him at the show especially if you have paper material, postcards or photos relating to saloons, pinball games, slot machines, arcades, etc. Phone him at 708-253-0791.
Aside from being jukebox and slot machine heaven, the show also offers a tremendous amount of advertising collectibles of every type and age ranging from 19th Century counter and store displays to cans and containers that held everything from Larkspur Lotion to face powder. Collectors of advertising items belong to the Antique Advertising Association of America, which offers an annual membership and its publication for $35. Write to them at Box 1121, Morton Grove, Ill. 60053.
Notes
- Thirty-eight works by Illinois student artists who happen to have dis- abilities, in addition to a special lot of 100 unframed works created by children throughout the state, to benefit the programs of Very Special Arts Illinois will be sold at the 'Life in America' special auction from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at R.H. Love Contemporary at 100 E. Ohio St. Admission $10; 312-664-9620.
- More than 100 pieces of Pickard porcelain will be auctioned with primitives, furniture and other fine antiques at 6 p.m. April 16 at the Joy Luke Gallery, 300 E. Grove St., Bloomington, Ill.; 309-828-5533.
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March 20, 2021
Indoor Antique Advertising Show is a premier regional antique show related to antique advertising industry. This regional event is set to start on 20 March 2021, Saturday in Indianapolis, IN, United States, and organized by IAA Show.
The event will be held in Indianapolis, IN in United States. The venue is Indiana State Fairgrounds.
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Chicagoland Antique Advertising Slot Machine & Jukebox Show
1202 East 38th Street, Indianapolis, IN, United States
+1 317-927-7500
Antique Advertising Clocks
+1 317-927-7695
events {at} indianastatefair.com
General Admission: $5
Children Under 16: Free
Prices shown here are generally door prices. There can be advance tickets.
The category of this antique show is antiques & collectibles.
Frequency of the event is annual (every year).
Targeted audience is regional.
The type of this antique show is consumer show.
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