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Nitro Ground Shaker Pinball Machine Bally SSĮight Ball Champ Pinball Machine Bally Midway SS The Amazing Spiderman Pinball Machine Gottlieb Here are the prices from the first day of the auction on Friday: Lot The auction continues in two weeks’ time on 24th-26th September with the same viewing and auction hours as the first three-day auction. This seller’s premium is usually subject to negotiation and not generally made public. The remaining $2.791M is expected to go to the Weeks family who owned the collection, although it is common practice for the auction company to also take a fee from the seller. Of that, $255K is paid in taxes with $502K from the buyers’ premium going to the auction company. The total collected on Friday was $535,534.74 including buyer’s premium and tax. He can be reached at or on Twitter at Support local news, subscribe to The Desert Sun.The live stream of the Captain’s Auction Warehouse at the Museum of Pinballīelow we have the auction lots, hammer prices and total prices (excluding shipping) for all 756 items sold on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, courtesy of Captain’s Auction Warehouse. The museum opened in Banning in 2013. Two years later, the Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged the museum as the record-holding site for the most people playing pinball simultaneously.Ĭity News Service contributed to this report.ĭesert Sun reporter Brian Blueskye covers arts and entertainment. "Palm Springs was kind of perfect," Weeks said. The museum was included in Modernism Weeks events such as “Retro Pinball Mania” in 2016. "We didn't have the money to sustain the holding period while the building was remodeled," Weeks told The Desert Sun in June. "My architect said it's going to take four months just to get the (printing) press out of there, and it's going to take time to get plans approved by the city and then construction time."īy moving to Palm Springs, Weeks had hoped to capitalize on events such as Modernism Week, with the building located directly across Gene Autry Trail from the Palm Springs Air Museum. Weeks said he initially anticipated at least seven months of remodeling at the Palm Springs building. But his architect projected 15 months before the museum could reopen in the two-story, 97,000-square-foot property that sits on 9 acres across from the Palm Springs International Airport. Gene Autry Trail.īut the cost and time it would take to renovate the building became too expensive for the nonprofit museum, Weeks told The Desert Sun in June. In April, the Palm Springs Planning Commission unanimously approved Museum of Pinball founder John Weeks' plans to relocate the business to The Desert Sun building at 750 N. “While it’s disappointing to see the Museum of Pinball close its doors, I am confident that Captain’s Auction Warehouse will steer the games in the right direction as we’ve worked together for many years,” museum owner John Weeks said. 13 will be available for a final bid event Sept.

on the weekend.Īny inventory not auctioned off by Sept. Product previews will be available between noon and 3 p.m. Is it working?Īdditional auctions will be held over the weekend, beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. More: Splash House invests in new technology to reduce noise complaints. More: When will Agua Caliente's cultural plaza open in Palm Springs? What we know, and don't know More: Palm Springs Art Museum to host fall exhibit of abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler
