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Door As a side venture Marsh and Frank Fey, along with Brother Ed and a friend, opened the Swinging Door (a beer only bar) in San Mateo, California during December of 1955. Both brothers being Bachelors had enough spare money to buy two coin-operated pianos, a player piano, a Mills Violin Virtuoso and an Edison Mltiphone.This was to be the beginning of the huge Liberty Belle Collection. |
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It took three large rented, U-Haul trailer
loads to move the many, heavy machines shown on the left: Top
row: 1908 Uncle Sam, 1935 German Egg Layer and a 1908 Multiphone.
middle row gumball slot and a 1920 Mills Violano Virtuoso. bottom
row: 1947 Wurlitzer Juke box, 1991 Mutoscope, 1895 Donkey Fortune
Teller and a 1905 Auto Steroscope. Not shown in the picture at the left
and also hauled to Reno by trailer were a second Violano Virtuoso,
two coin-operated pianos a player piano and numerous other early
pieces of memorabilia.
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