Rare find discovered amid town's Old West kitsch

In the first picture, the woman standing there looks a lot like the fortune teller gypsy.

Coincidence? Maybe, or maybe we've just crossed over.......into the Twilight Zone!
 
Theo Holstein, a California collector and renovator of such machines, said he thinks the Gypsy is wasted in Virginia City and should be placed in a private collection for proper care.


My god what a douchebag! Yeah, the thing is being wasted on public display, it really belongs in someone's gameroom where nobody will ever see it! Things like that are only for rich people! Us peons don't deserve such things.
 
Yeah he's just pissed he can't bully it away from them for a large sum of money like he has everything else he probably owns...I like the fact that even rich people can't always get everything they want...

I do remember seeing some of David Copperfields stuff...great collection..he has some rare magic stuff from the great Houdini too...
 
I think the only upside to that being in a private collection is keeping it from being vandalized, it makes me sick to see scratched up or tagged games. My Rush 2049 has some BS gang crap scratched into the back of the seat and it pisses me off. Since I've started collecting and working on arcade games I've also started being really bothered by how people treat video games in public. I know when they are playing a racing game and just slamming the wheel or shifter around its doing damage.
 
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