Sunday, January 11, 2015

Small but sad warehouse raid

Over the past 20 or so years, I've been on many warehouse raids,  but none quite as sad as this one. Bobby, owner of St. Tammany Amusements, had proven to be a quite difficult person to set up a meeting with. This goes back to 1993 or so. Finally, almost 20 years later, he agreed to meet me at his warehouse. What I found there was really disappointing- almost 30 classics for the most part left in the elements. The games were in a barn with one side of the barn completely open to the weather. Most of the games suffered water damage as over the years during heavy rains, water flowed through the barn and soaked into the bottoms of most of the games. Some games were stored on top of a raised wooden platform, and those were miraculously OK. The Super Pac and Mario Bros. that are in the game room came from this place. Also a bad note is that the guy wants a premium for all of the destroyed cabinets, asking $150 each. No thanks!!