The best part of going there was eating at the Americus hotel buffet in Allentown afterward. Unbelievable spread including a table covered in ice with all the split cold lobster tails you could eat. It and the hotel are long gone also.
When the auction was announced my wife sai that I could bid on something, she did not realize how pricey this could get. I thanked her and said no.
The only items I will have from Roadside America are my five postcards (published by Laurence T. Gieringer). They are not photographs. They look to be the sketched then water colored in type.
Everything I saw in the auctions was selling for much higher than I would be willing to pay.
This attraction must have held special memories for a lot of people. Many seem to want to own a part of it.
I wish I could have seen it in person.
-Kevin
Yeah, you had to have seen it to know the value. BTW, they are large structures, not HO size, larger than O for the most part.
Gonna need a big truck for the dutchman and his wife - those are HUGE - they stood outside the place.
Someone from the historical society was going to see about getting the Locust Summit breaker section, but at that price, I kind of thing we didn’t get it.
Also, those are only the 24 most expensive. That’s out of thousands of items. Surely there are plenty of other things with much lower price tags. Not even one complete town or village is represented by that number of items.
–Randy
Was that when the Moffas still owned it, prior to the mid-'80s?
It reopened, I think in 2016, and shows as open today. I doubt the buffet returned with it, though…
If you followed the link to the auction there were almost 700 items listed. Some did not receive a bid at all, but those were mostly the stuff from the building not the display.
Yes - I could have gotten a Hammond organ for $90!
TThat was just the first group, with 700 items. I didn;t see on the main auction site where it mentions how many groups, or when the next set starts, or a catalog for any more items, but there are most definitely a whole lot more just structures that what have already sold - unless previous arrangements were made for that stuff and it’s not going up for auction.
A shame the circus scene was broken up. Hopefully the same person was able to bid and win all of it.
–Randy
You guys went to PA Dutch land to visit Roadside America and didn’t pop almost next door to Haag’s Hotel for a real PA Dutch meal served family style? Now that is a place I really miss.
–Randy
Igot some buildings still paying it off and mine was the CHEAPER ones Trains are suoposedly going on the block soon If the buildings are any indication pricess are gonna be hell
When are they going to auction? I didnt even see where they were doing that?