https://www.geocities.com/featured_estate/sales/sale.html

Sale is this Thurs, Fri and Sat....

there's bound to be something in all that vinyl.

Only trouble is it's in Santa Ana, USA.

If any West Coast sourcer wants the details, drop me a pm.

Here's the pics...

if anyones going can they get me the set of cast iron skillets?

if anyones going can they get me the set of cast iron skillets?

And I'll have the two '60s Seeburg jukeboxes.

how can people live like that?

https://www.geocities.com/featured_estate/sales/sale.html

Sale is this Thurs, Fri and Sat....

there's bound to be something in all that vinyl.

Only trouble is it's in Santa Ana, USA.

If any West Coast sourcer wants the details, drop me a pm.

Will be heading down there, thanks. Will give a report....!

how can people live like that?

Kim & Aggie All packed up and ready to go

" How Clean is Your house" Christmas Special,

with added tips on restoring Vintage Vinyl .

Tony

how can people live like that?

You apparently haven't seen my apartment.

Could this be where Marvin Layed his hat?

chris

The Juke Box on the left and the vintage Radio collection please !

bet they are all "Polka" records-the clue is there with the 2 piano acordians

Happy Hunting whoever goes

As some of you might know I do this for a living but have never seen anything like this in years of clearing houses , well not quite but close. This was fascinating and heres what someone who went to the estate sale today had to say!

"I'm not an estate sale person, but this was 4 miles from my house, so I went this morning

out of sheer curiosity. I got there at 7:45 and there was already a line down the

sidewalk.

They had a "sign-in" sheet going down the queue, and I was #65.

There were quite a few people behind me. Once they opened, they pretty much just

opened the door and let everyone in, boxes, carts, and all.

Which made it pretty cramped as it's a small house.

I have to say, for the most part, people are very polite for being

smashed together like that.

, I'm not estate sale knowledgeable, but here's my "tiki take" on it...

freddie mentioned "Mid-Century Modern lamps". Those were gone in two seconds.

All of them. Guy knew what he was looking for.

Was that you freddie?

From what I saw, there was a small stack of postcards, but nothing vintage Hawaiian

or Tiki.

Lots of decanters, for sure. But none Hawaiian.

For as many decanters as there were, I was surprised that they didn't have swizzle sticks, or matchbooks, etc. Definitely a lot of glassware as you mentioned.

There were tons of books, records, and old films on reels.

However, they were being carted away by the box and cartload by book/record brokers.

There's still a ton, but I just didn't have the time, or the elbow room, to go through

them.

>Malama Pono, Pua"

Edited April 30, 200916 yr by craig W

As some of you might know I do this for a living but have never seen anything like this in years of clearing houses , well not quite but close. This was fascinating and heres what someone who went to the estate sale today had to say!

"I'm not an estate sale person, but this was 4 miles from my house, so I went this morning

out of sheer curiosity. I got there at 7:45 and there was already a line down the

sidewalk.

They had a "sign-in" sheet going down the queue, and I was #65.

There were quite a few people behind me. Once they opened, they pretty much just

opened the door and let everyone in, boxes, carts, and all.

Which made it pretty cramped as it's a small house.

I have to say, for the most part, people are very polite for being

smashed together like that.

, I'm not estate sale knowledgeable, but here's my "tiki take" on it...

freddie mentioned "Mid-Century Modern lamps". Those were gone in two seconds.

All of them. Guy knew what he was looking for.

Was that you freddie?

From what I saw, there was a small stack of postcards, but nothing vintage Hawaiian

or Tiki.

Lots of decanters, for sure. But none Hawaiian.

For as many decanters as there were, I was surprised that they didn't have swizzle sticks, or matchbooks, etc. Definitely a lot of glassware as you mentioned.

There were tons of books, records, and old films on reels.

However, they were being carted away by the box and cartload by book/record brokers.

There's still a ton, but I just didn't have the time, or the elbow room, to go through

them.

>Malama Pono, Pua"

I went.

I arrived at 5 am and was #6 in line.

Everyone was friendly and polite except a group of 5 guys that looked like out of work construction guys. When they showed up, they kept to themselves and armed themselves with BIG empty boxes. They refused to put their names on the sign up sheet.

At 8 am when the sale opened, I went to the 45 record room, and started at the singles...they were $2 each, and not negotiable, so I was methodical and focused. Within 4 minutes, the "construction crew" came in with their big boxes and started loading them with smaller boxes of 45s, without looking at them. Probably grabbed 1500 45s or so.

There was a LOT of crap in there and at $2 each, it would wreck any odds a few rare records could balance. Their main guy SWORE he was buying all of it, saying he just inherited $175,000 from his dead dad, so he didn't care. He cussed a lot, saying he was looking for Northern soul and Sun 45s. But he looked like he listened to the Almond Brothers and Kid Rock. He struck me as a newbie who just came into money who wants to become "self-employed" through the distorted world of Ebay re-sale.

I laughed.

I then offered to sell him better records for 25 cents each, and I could get him all he would want. He wasn't interested, though...I think he wanted to show up some "experts". Hope he enjoys his beat up childrens and Bing Crosby records for $2 each, I saw him grab 100's of them!

Meanwhile, there were still some left he didn't hoard and I wound up with around 200 decent 45s and 40 Lps after some serious work. It was VERY messy, and stinky. But worth it.

The pictures are not how the guy who died lived in his home...He had an Antique shop, and they brought his stock to his house to liquidate it, so it looked worse than it may have normally been.

There were 5000 lps or more, but I didn't go at em.

No doubt anyone who goes there will have found something...even now. There is just SO much stuff, one person could never see it all in one go. Besides, I can only deal with so much rat and cat sh*t.........

Alexander Patten was the big prize winner, BTW.

Edited May 1, 200916 yr by MikeVague

Nice to hear you got something Mike.

It's a pity about the poachers turning up, I am sure it was a great treat thumbing through some of it though.

H

I went.

I arrived at 5 am

This is why I don't think I'll ever make it as a professional record dealer like you... Getting up before noon has always been a big problem for me. I wonder when the 5 people before you got up!

I had a similar situation with a poacher at a garage sale this past weekend. For some reason, the guy holding the garage sale caved into the poacher's pressure, and allowed him to have first dibs at all the boxes of 45's (there were about 15 of them). I waited patiently for about 10 min. as the poacher was sifting through the 3rd of 15 boxes (I was only allowed to look through a box the poacher hadn't already gone through); but I gave up and went elsewhere when he began calling out to everyone the great stuff he was pulling out: "Elvis on Sun! Oh, man! And another one...!"

Edited May 1, 200916 yr by shnaggletooth