WGBH Channel 2 Auction; 1966 Auction

It. Comes the great channel to auction May 30 first through June for 4:30 to midnight May 30th birthday is next Tuesday so I'll make it a point to be on hand at the opening of this mammoth event. Thousands of items for sale and bargains by the score. So get your television set ready and have your telephone by your side. The bidding is by anyone can bid. Anyone can win it. Channel 2 on May 30 first through June 4th. Thirty two be. A. Wonderful band that you're listening to is the Saints marching.

Band and drum major. We've been. Telling them the secret marching band are donating their time on very short notice. What he. Was. Doing for me. Your work was going to be all. Going. To be on the air for five straight days and there was a telephone

number you see. They were putting your site on fire broadcasts get rougher with the day through Saturday and devote the whole time. At least seven and a half hours a night. So. Come out and join him for wearing a throwaway painting make wine glasses and take wedding cake under another. Oh. I don't.

Think. I'm ready are you ready David. Oh my. I hope so. We're standing here with David Wise and he's going to get. To you. That is if he can possibly put away the noisemaker Are there any other rules. I'm ready for the rule. Are you ready for the rules. The rules are the great travel to auction we're going to be repeating them many times but get them now because this is the first time and the most important time. As soon as an auctioneer presents an item you like pick up your phone and call eight six eight twenty five hundred that's the auction number. Tell the girl who answers what item you want to bid on and how much you bid. She'll rush your bid to the proper table if the price passes you are bad. Try again if you've been quick and clever you'll take the prize. Your name will be announced on the air if you win. Don't leave your phone for a few minutes. We'll be calling you back to

confirm your bid and give you instructions for picking up and paying for your purchase. You can hear the clamor outside those are people who want to come in and bid already. We'll be getting lots of other instructions on here as the auction proceeds. David I beg your pardon. The phone the phone number 868 twenty five hundred. You're going to hear that about 11000 times between now and Saturday. And remember if you don't see anything you like it first Stay tuned. It'll be something to catch the fancy of everyone watching. Now for the first auctioneer. We're going to table where the auctioneer is Mrs. Keith Steele chairman of the volunteers for the entire auction. She's had special responsibility for getting all the gifts that have been donated by the people and the businesses to this auction. We're very grateful indeed to Mr. Steele for her energy enthusiasm and efficiency. And we'll take a chance later on to thank all her area captains as well. That's very very inviting. Let me start the auction.

I'd love to start. I can't believe this moment has really come. The first item we have for you to bid on is number 4 1 3 1 is donated by Peeters furniture and appliance center. Three all three dozen street and low mass. And it is a combination car bed and car seat. It's a padded car bed with mattress and pillow. I got a wonderful birth. Ninety five. Now get on your telephones and call 8 6 8 to 500 and bid on this car bed. And this I've been dying to hang on to. The second item I have is a tiger. A great big stuffed tiger. And I've always had a passion for stuffed animals. I wish my college daughter we're here to bid on it for me. 2 9 9 4 is the item number and it has been donated by music Mart Nantasket Avenue in HO mass. The retail value of this stuff three foot long stuffed tiger is $10.

Isn't he wonderful. I like him. The third item we have for you to bid on. And remember you call 8 6 8 to 500. The third item. Is from Webster Thomas company two to one State Street in Boston and is a matchless brand gift box of jams and jellies worth 750. I see blueberry apricots strawberry. Red raspberry. Great joy. What else what else. Cherry Jack. Current. Raspberry. This is wonderful. Eight different jams and jellies worth 750. Now here we got a real fun one Jack. You're going to you're going to do this. This has been. This is an anonymous donation. It's a beautiful beautiful handbag. Worth twenty six dollars. It's imported from Italy by feelings and given by an anonymous anonymous donor. And this is a double handed tote bag designed by the Italian genius Puchi. Yeah. And it's it's like this variable's you can see Jack has opened it up. You can

carry it you're too small and it's even got a little baby inside. It's colors very very gay orange glow pink and green with black vinyl here you can wear it with anything. It's worth twenty six dollars brand new. Wonderful. Yeah. Here's our fifth item on this table and it is a very low waste basket. And Kleenex. Dispenser. White with black blue and green velvet and decorated. White. It's a final. And it has been donated by party favors unlimited 1 3 7 6 Beacon Street Coolidge Corner in Brookline and its resale value is $19. Did I give you the number on that the item number is 3 1 7 6. Thank you. Jeannie Have you finished with your table. I just want to point out that your kids are coming in already on that wonderful and it looks like the baby car bed is moving at the moment. Sure it is. Before we go to table B. And the next auctioneer Jack Drummy. Let me just give you the rules once more you're watching

the first channel to auction if you want to participate. It's a simple thing. All you do is pick up your phone. All 8x8. Twenty five hundred an operator will ask you for your name address and telephone number and the item you want to bid on. She'll tell you the highest bid on the item. You've got to bid quickly because the bids will be coming in fast and you can see them coming in here right this minute. We have 25 operators taking your calls or you can type have a hard time keeping ahead of us. They won't take calls from children please no calls from children. If your bid is announced as the winner will be calling you back to confirm it with you right away. So stay by your telephone. And we'll tell you then just how to come to the channel to studios and pick up your gift. One other item please. No ban for less than a full dollar increase above the last amount. No bids for 50 cents. Ninety five cents. Seventy five cents for all of it. And now to Table B where the auctioneer is Jack Drummy vice president of the Gamo Boston incorporated and current president of the Boston ad watch all week long.

Thank you to you. All right. We want special thanks to Jack for helping to organize the pubs committee to promote this. And now Jack it's your turn to go ahead and see what you can do for. Thank you much. David you do a nice job here. I think that hotfoot to promote you you do nice work. We've got some fantastic gifts DD and. If Number one is a pair of beautiful antique candlesticks and I mean beautiful the 19th century there are about 16 18 inches tall. And these are really magnificent. And the number on that is 1 2 5 6 and they are donated from Gabriel sporran in the south Essex. And the bid price is $45. $45 which is an absolute retail value. So you may start at that and go higher with you which I would think you would. They're absolutely magnificent candlesticks. Our second item TV is a. Two quarter teakettles Corning where it's got a blue flowers on a white background. As you can see it's quite

beautiful. It's even got the cup measurements inside. Whatever that means I haven't made a cup of tea a long time. But the number is 3 3 6 1 and this is totally me by large department store that feels the retail price is nine ninety five not $10 9 9 5. So that's item number two with a very handsome item it is. Did you want to get this working. Well I read it off. Item number three which is number 3 9 7 2. From the film school in Cork is the retail prices. 13:15 is a metronome. So tick tock. There you go. You can keep this drive your husband crazy or anything you want with it if you have a kid taking up the piano What do you need. All right. Number three first of all I got a really an 8. I want to personally buy this. Oh I'm not allowed to. Well I have to sell this spaghetti. We have a two car of La Rosa spaghetti and for all of you know what I like spaghetti This is great. The retail value is 450 but in terms of being stocked up on some of

spaghetti so it's truly. Not spaghetti the long thin stuff makes great spaghetti. The number is 3 8 8 5. It's donated by Newton center market in Newton Centre mass. Where else. And still canned goods cartons of Lorenzo spaghetti for 50 a steal. And finally I write him. TV is. For. Very handsome blanket's from seris of Natick. The number is 3 6 0 6. The retail value is 13 dollars. They are truly handsome. There's four different colors pink yellow. A yellow right on the blue ray on. Right to match your complection whichever day you feel like you know. So here they are very very handsome. Jack. I get $13 if I think I did $13 is the price on these four. It's when you hit the forum like it's very very handsome. Jack thanks a lot. Things are coming in so fast on table a there we're going to go back there and sell the items that we have put up for sale on table. And Jack we're going to sale

every item we've got here. So let them go. Everything. The first night that was donated 4 1 3 1 this beautiful combination car bed car seat pitas furniture and appliance center three three street level maps don't need it and it has been bought for $16 by Janet Jackson Petronas of West Roxbury. Thank you Jeanette. Here in the happy winter. 16 hours. And. The second item we had for sale was just one of three foot stuffed tiger. Number 2 9 9 4 donated by music Mart Nantasket Avenue home mass. And it has been bought by. Mr. Edwin Weber of Jamaica Plain and he's paid $15 for it. Congratulations. And the third item. That we had up the same number 1 8 8 6 donated by Webster Thomas company two to one State Street Boston a matchless brand gift box of

jams and jellies has been sold to Susan's pony for $2 from South Boston. Thank you Susan. The fourth item we have number 3 1 3 4 by an anonymous donor anonymous donor excuse me the lovely devil handle tote bag imported from Italy worth twenty six dollars. Has been bought. By Mrs. bad. That they know. Of Cambridge for $15. Thank you Mrs. Babineau. This is yours. I'll go with everything James and Joe always win. I'm sorry that was not the bit I had. I'm sorry. Jack. You see we made a mistake. The valleys. I'm sorry. Let's go back. People might know this one you you. On the jams and jellies. I'm most awfully sorry. Don't eat again my words the time has come for me to do one state street in Boston. Didn't go for it. Eight dollars pardon me eight dollars to Christine Catherine Avery of Dorchester. I'm most awfully sorry and I'm glad

you got it Miss Avery. I didn't think it could have gone to you there. We all. We know we're going to make mistakes as our first one. It would be me. The last item we had on table number 8 was 3 1 7 6. And it was donated by party favors unlimited 1 3 7 6 Beacon Street Coolidge Corner of Brookline. White vinyl tissue basket so framed in blue and green velvet flowers with velvet is so for twenty dollars to Mrs. Louise Mellon. Park Street with you like the parents went out on a date and all of it was coming in too fast and not over the table face. Ellen are you ready to sell. I think we'll go ahead. Here is the winning bid had been grabbed by Alex Perry.

Oh boy. Here is the hammer goes to Mrs. Emilee Peter for $50. Thank you Peter. That's what your Baskett away from ex-staff. And that have also donated the oh that was that nice. We've all been you know. The heating pad. Gone. Fallon. Offered. Free beer. For many hours to the other Maradona's to Nicholas cockcrow all of West rock. Craig congratulations and thank you both of you. And I. Meeting. You. Thank you to the hospital pharmacy for voting. That. Was our next one. Boy that falling back. Look at the prices. The. Roof. OK. All of the rock goes something like this is Michael Todd. Of. Moving. Half the rock I. Will steal for twenty five dollars. Thank you ever so much. For. The show. Oh everybody wanted the

shoes from Joseph van tells. John Maras looks like a gift for somebody for forty eight dollars. The shoes and the bag. Fine how are we and the cookbooks. Oh I see a price on the cookbooks. I got up to $10 you could get the cookbook. Mrs. James Kilroy of Marshfield Mass Thank you Rose for boy and for donating. Thank you Mrs. Kilroy. That's it David. Thank you very much. And now we're going over to table B the rate of which we're chewing up auction is here is something fearful. And so we're going to fill him with a member of the staff and a very competent member to. Ask could we have asked for $4. This is another one for Jack

Brummies. We'll get it out of here and go now. Before we go back to Table B we're going to do studio B and through Keith Johnson of WNYC for a special presentation. Think Dave and this is a special presentation that gives me a lot of pleasure we have here a Labrador female pulp that was well April 19 of 1966. AKC registered the sire Ohio hash and the damn skyline beauty and the scrimshaw was given may 30 years 1961. We have all the instructions on what to feed is donated by Patrick farmer of route to a North Acton lies of Omak wants to talk to you little girl. He has this list poppier is all set and ready to go it's a Labrador retriever. And I think you'd love it. Yes she's talking to me isn't she. Why don't you come around and talk to her OK. It's six weeks old. It's a female it's got all the papers and it's AKC registered. This is a delightful scene. Eliza would love to have it. I'm sure at the retail value was $125 and keep in mind when

you're bidding on this number the number is. 15:17 1 5 7 0. There's a delightful scene. Let's get some bids on this. A donated by Patrick Palmer route today in North Acton a Labrador female pup that is just six weeks old. What we've got to get some bids on this right now. Now back to Studio B and David Ives. Thanks very much. That is a perfectly wonderful puppy. I know the baby are going to come in faster than that. However we are now at an important moment in the auction because we're going to table be well auction.

Here is the inimitable Julia Child who is going to sell some of the items she has brought back from. France specifically for this auction. Julia it is all yours. We. Make them cover noise you squeeze while we get the microphone on. This. Horrible item first. Which is Lester a one month old beast calf news two months old. His name is Lester because his mother was Esther and this is Susan right. Boys. Who wants to show it to you and. That is. That Have a good looking. Darling. And this is a cast of wills that's been donated by the great great great book CERN's. North. Northwold. Carlisle Massachusetts. And these are hundred dollars. And he's a wonderful item if you have a child or if you want to raise him yourself he'll make marvelous

beef. In two years and then a novelist all his life. And. Destructions and overgrazing with Lester that's $100 what's the item the item number is. 10. Da. 88. Then our second night. Is a fine. French. What year is April in which we used for cooking. The kind I use I sold it though. And it's made out of heavy blue material and it's marvelous and it costs. For. Two hours and 40 hours of 50. And you might even have his fortune. Now I know that number is 44 one. And the next site we have a marvelous set. Of French. Knives. We have the enormous king size. And we have. The general chopper. And we have a flexible fish so it's. A small butcher knife. And a little baby paring knife. That's five knives in there worth.

Twenty five dollars and fifty cents an item for four cents to Julian. I don't fall for six to their stuff razor and they're real French knives. Next item is a fine French rolling pin with no handles made on a good hard what you can roll it like puff pastry and this is. A French. Type of. Pastry rolling pin. Now. I'm dying to buy. This rolling pin is worth $5 and it's Item 4 2 4 5. Final item on this table. Is. Online cupper beating bowl in a large portion of eggs and it's better than you ever have before. It's worth twenty five dollars. And it's Item 4 2 3 0 0. And again I turn for

Lester. Who is I don't. Even. Have any evidence for you have you. Here. Thanks for. News for sports fans waiting for us in Studio B. Mr. Bud Collins and Mr. Bob Cousy. We are in studio. But Cousy cut on your head will look like Frick and Frack the shoe you got soft heads to match. We got six basketballs not guaranteed divides but they're going to be priceless. The retail value is priceless. They're donated by H. B. And they're going to go to the six top

bidders. We've got these basketballs autographed by the one and only still living by a jersey. Selling those basketball. Oh geez you still got the requires our back may want you again as that was I. But. No we like the saying It's all right you've got to sign that when we got these six balls from HP who says we got that Cousy HP hoods for less than a season. They're doing a great job over there. Just this is a full name. Some of these basketballs has just an X on a pre-planned Cousy. But he's got that Holy Cross education of all be excellent. That's pretty good. Only one mistake koozie. Here it is. What do you make of that. It's spelled backwards. Bob Cousy here it is one of six throw in another one. All right let's do it once more. This is Bob Cousy model basketball isn't super seamless. Never misses the whole swing. This basketball is guaranteed to go in. Three out of five times four to six states. That's more. For. One more advanced show people that it bounces back because they probably make up the money. So.

That. Answer. You just want to you've got great moves with that pen. I was your checking account. Of the Quicken is very good. How many more we got. We can still work for an auction of Bob Cousy I was watching I think Kyra. Right. What is it that doesn't fit what does I mean does it. Well you've got to be had already done that. Well what do you say we've got three more haven't we. Those are some these are signs. Here we get a box. Who wants a box that the bar was incenting five bucks and you get that. We got we got. Let's see. They're orange. You get the box. This one's already autographed with Bob Cousy Bob Cousy. Maybe you and I could play one on one again. We could do that. I could take you in a little divot maybe. Yeah there's one two three. They're all autographed by Bob Cousy we want you to get these calls in. Very quickly. Bob is on his way. Out of town very shortly.

Come on guys. Come on guys. Calling it an hour later. I don't really have good news. Me Know. My thanks to the prettiest fish I've ever caught Diane with these shoes little throw throwback. Well this is this is a good luck real as you can see and you'll have a lot of oh we have a winner. All right. Here it is the top bid for this whole fisherman's outfit goes to Robert. Watch it or clock it Crocket. Now they take the glasses off of a Winchester Massachusetts the top bidder and

congratulations and good luck too. And I understand also that my hat is gone. Yes. We got a top bid of $10 for the hat. So I'll have to take a bite out of it later on. I don't think it would quite too easily in here. This goes. Right I. Think. $10. And it goes to somebody by the name of Booth. I can make out the first name with this. I had the famous hat and it pays to be particular. 6. 5.

6. 2. 6 2. 2. 2. 6 You. Do. What we hope you enjoyed that brief interlude and. Let's get the bids in on Mike's table are a lot of wonderful lot of that let's take a look some more new items to go over

here to read Powers. Eddie how are we doing. Right. Now. Let's see if there is anything left of our. Bicycle riding from. Fort Collins. Just west of datum. And I want to tell you that John Glenn was nothing. You've got to have this exercycle everybody has got to have one but we've only got one we're going to sell it. To the highest bidder it's worth sixty six ninety five 3 0 9 5 is the number 3 0 9 5. It's called deadly white special. I have got to get this

thing really. No hands one. What I think you know you can do all those things it's really wonderful. Now it's in Bolto it's a gold lamé as a matter of fact. Now as I try to get off here we want to remind you two of these two best buy these best scooters there and read. The number. We had a terrific bid for both girls their mother say no. So you've got to be keep me betting on the scoter scooters red scooters $339 value. The number is 1 0 0 1 best buy scooters. To the two highest bidders. I must repeat that the two highest bidders will get these scooters and their lovely scooters lovely girls it's a lovely idea. Come in here kimmey. And now we've got something to show you. You're doing a nice job. Can you hold it there while I read. All right. This is. Also from the Paramount's cycle and supply company thirty fifty Washington Street in Boston they generously donated that exercycle as well.

This is. 3 0 9 4 remember that number. Because this is a great thing to get out of town on 3 0 9 4 is the number this is when the Luc's twin tandem bicycle cycling is fun and it's double fun on a tandem. It says that here the easy shifting five speed derailleur gear makes the Schwinn deluxe twin the easiest pedaling family fun bike you've ever ridden. You. The frame has a drop front bar to make it easier to get on and off we'll see about that. And it is complete with front and rear brakes. Nylon tires tubular rims chrome plated fenders and special heavy duty Schwinn construction through out from the Paramount's cycle company remember this 3 0 9 4 it's a great way to run away with the woman next door. Now let's see Kimsey baby. What we can do here. Thank you. And your. Wonderful about this.

On. In. This. Year. I don't know whether you heard that but what's this year Cambridge next year going to Annapolis give you a wonderful day. That's a pretty typical thing right. Boy that's a handsome bike. You're better at this job than you are directing. Well I would make any comments about your bicycle riding and tennis or I want to. No. Would tell you that this is 3 0 9 4. They're going to lose 10 to bicycle. It's tossed a

hundred 1950 to bias that you can have it for 200 bucks. Get in here and throw that money around. For it whereas it read written once but right. Like do we have to repeat that. You have to clear beautiful words. I buy it. All right what do you think. Just really do you want to sing Good night once more you want to read the words. We can. You can read our own I'd be Soprano. This is the cycling is fun it's double fun on a tandem 3 0 9 4 is the number. It's from Paramount Cyclons supply Co. So it's not you're wearing a nice flannel suit. Hundred nine. It's not that kind of show in 1950 for this Schwinn tandem bike and you can have it for $300. Get those bids in Dudley white. Well you're. Right about that. Very good. We will see how fast rough Morris can sell as they will what what he has sold. Once you get the good of you

high prices on this paper mâché angel OK. We got a camera over here it's a nice command to camera 40 95 don't like what the actual dollar bill. Now a is going up all the time. We got a picture of Daniel Boone at age 35. No that's not. We are a matched pair of spreading Japanese Christmas as an evergreen tree. How big they are. They are very big. It doesn't see the most very big market. They don't even say that. They may be very small but they're beautiful. Well worth the price. And we've got the marvelous group that you can take anywhere with ceramic and steel and gas and stuff and it's wonderful how much as we get nothing on that one yet folks you still get time to buy it. Just call us call us and let us know what what are you going to give us. Are going to get me that's got to get in out. How much do we get Greg. I got 25 and when we got the one that really is hanging on I was taken when he was 20 years ago I felt 35 on a girl of 35 on the ground when I hit 40. Do I have 40. I won't even look at 40. We're going to wait just a sec we're almost there. We got the paper machine angel who we

started with already and kind of thing you're got to let this go for $40. You can't how to sell it. Shall I sell it. We'll sell it. Give me the high bidder. We're going to we've got to get out of here. Give me the high bid on the Angel high. That's right. Pull it right out of Broadstone right 45. You know you get this warning all of us. OK. Hold it just a second. I've just sold the Angel. The angel was given to us from the gondolier shop in Orleans Massachusetts the winner Mrs. Stanley Carter of Monmouth Street in Brookline. Congratulations you've got to see what else we got here. Record camera. All right. OK. Take a quick look at a special presentation for the game. The Volkswagen is still at $2500. The Florida vacation for five and that was a house in a rented car in a boat. And I can't remember all because why but that's still a 13:00 the fishing trip is that $180 or a $250 value. You know we can do better than that the Safari lecture is 200 is the value and we

can certainly do better than $100. So let's keep getting those bids in. Russell What are you finding out. We got some it's a ceramic grill it's up to 45 big ones. It's going to go Fogg's get those calls in. I get $15 and Daniel Don't you like I get the camera the camera goes to me the been on the camera. We've gotten $13 for it. The camera comes to us from the AJ Wilkinson company 27 and they're in Boston Massachusetts on high street and that's going to Barbara Livi era and she lives somewhere in Cambridge. Good luck and rest a bit. These photos are still ringing. People that are fans are still unaware of you still get a chance on this baby is a 40 something with sixty nine ninety five. Can't let Daniel Boone go. We've got to have some bids on this. We watch it. We want to see if we can get the most money for the least number of merchandises things. Okay great. How much we got for this one. We're at 47 we're at 47 right now. We can do about it. Come on folks come on. Dig down a little bit deeper. For a good cause remember how you

got. Forty nine is going up slowly but we got we have almost out of time. Greg I don't know whether we would be going to let it go. We've almost got to let it go. Anything else. One minute we're have one minute behind. Oh it's crazy it's coming in here. By the time I get on my $75 will. How. It's going. That's what I wanted out there folks. Seventy five for this marvelous crowd. I love what it's got to. Get. $26 Daniel. So we sell it. So. We. Sell it. For 26. We don't have we don't have this when we meet up how much we reached the fishing trip just went up to $200. Oh.

I. Still a bit. We've got this amazing news how much have I got for this morning is twenty 20 20. For. Me. You have the clothes. I'm going to something useful from the Stobart nurseries in Franklin Massachusetts. Specimen use your $25 they go for $25 to a good ritual Essex Street Chestnut Hill thank you Mr. Good. OK. At least Mr. Daniel Boone and the grill say gosh we got to for one or two. OK. We are just $75 on the grill and we've got how much on this. How much on the when he takes hold it just a minute. We have the basics is the fishing trip which was the donation of Jean Campbell. Lawrence real estate is going for two dollars. Mildred Goudreau had seven when film about it. Thank you very much both of you. Right. There's a happy one to say goodbye to a gang of Don't forget to go to. We're going to flip a coin who's got any money left. Twenty

seven. Hundred. Thirty five dollars. Thirty seconds give me 15 more seconds on getting your vote. I'm up to 35. Seventy seven dollars. Thirty seven dollars. Five to seven. Three 0. Now folks are going to heaven. Well people are going to bring it back. We can write it out. OK. Remember we still got the break. So what is the next to go $77. Bring in paperwork honey. Come on. We'll get it in here. Daniel goes thirty seven dollars. The painting came to us from a hobby horse and there and Marion mass. And I've got the paper on the edge of the paper on the balloon. Daniel Boone saw

the thirty seven hours. Remember folks will be back tomorrow night with another 70 hours of this madness. Right. I will get the rest of the week. Here comes Daniel Boone the winner of the Daniel Boone painting is an author Brian he lives in Lincoln. Gratulations Thanks a lot. It's time. For the countdown on the grill. $77 another another 15 seconds on the grill and all of those phones ringing. Let's hear it. Nothing. Haven't. I get get by the North Andover supply company chittering road north and even the lucky one for 77 balloons is Carl Jay wizen Bach Wellesley Hills.

Congratulations. Russ we have another we have another winner here. The special presentation The Safari lecture which was donated by Mardan cable which you and your motion picture producer Bud Collins something sports columnist for The Boston Globe. They donate to this lecture for some reason and the what you believe fine for that what you think you are going you are going to. MR. EARNEST Vernia was wanted for two hundred and fifteen dollars a year. Great baby. Here he is 32 enrolled in Revere. Are you going to hear that. Bobby we've got to get up Forget take the pictures. This is one of those shows like open air. Not one of them got the idea it will be out that way. You can't use this channel to remember while it's been a big long day.

And I guess the last count we had was as of 10:30 we had taken it about $13000. I don't know whether this was anything. Tomorrow night we're going to have a distinguished list of auctioneers all of which I think are well very well known to you all. And please tune in tomorrow we'll be on air again 4:30 tomorrow and again until midnight. There are many many more items. We've just begun to fight just begun to fight. And we think we'd like to say that we got there was a special presentation recently. Let's take one more look at the special presentations that Volkswagen is stellar. Twenty five hundred we'd like to see if we can do better than that. The Florida vacation for five days. Thirteen hundred dollars. The Safari lecture was sold but what going to go off to Revera I believe. But tomorrow is another day. And there are an awful lot of tired but happy people standing around me and I think that they'll all be here tomorrow night. And we certainly hope that you will all be here tomorrow night. Don't forget that the pick up in pace shop

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telephone number. Say. Five. Hundred. Say. To 500. We're putting aside our broadcast schedule throughout the day through Saturday and don't get to vote the whole time. At least seven and a half hours a night selling the items donated Battleford. So come on. And join us for. Fortune. Wearing a to go under. Your. Own.

In. A. Flash everybody kind of got the family get the family right. That was a great. Last night didn't sell fast enough though and today we've got to go all out but now we have a new device today David. What is it. We have 15 more operators on duty today making a total of 40 count them behind us 40. A. Record. I think we might make it today if we really step along. David we might. We made $16000 at least and a whole lot of stuff wasn't counted because it was flooding out of there so fast. They got over 11000 busy signal so that ought to be some indication. Eleven thousand busy thinking. Well before we get more busy signals I'm beginning to hear the phones ring already. Why don't we go ahead with the auction. You think we have something auctioned today.

Yes. All right. Wow. Oh my gosh. The era handbag skirts and sweater sets and. Oh boy all kinds of things. I don't even know what it is. And we have a dog house and if we don't get on with this we're going to be in it. OK. We got 96. Make sure that they got the story tonight so we just reached if we let this game console go let it go for 900 We got to get better. Yes right. Twenty five thousand. A

No no. How can I have the winning cookie cookies. OK. OK. Here they are. The first winner of all the cookies on the card on the pastry shop in Somerville Massachusetts. Run a quarter of whatever good number two. Rodney Brooks in Dorchester. Number three George Russell in reading. The Trenchcoat. Can I have the winter in a trench coat. Do we. Don't. Know. Mrs. G. Glen of new. $422 that was given to us by phone call back to get that she can get that exchange to make sure that if it turns out exercise the weekend at the town motoring in Dedham the winner is Mrs. Crawley of Boston.

Getting. $50. The China sales dinner for six. That is. Forty five dollars and it's from Mrs. Leonard Sherman So she's got herself. Once good. She's got us all six good news. We've. Got. All the glass coming closer there's a play off the floor. You get that. She just wanted to go ahead with the suitcase while I straightened out that. Is that possible. OK it's going to go right here. The winner of the suitcase that $29 townlands sudden all made it and has a suitcase that was given to. Pools are given to us plus a crackdown on the radio operator OK. We're going to have it right over here. Well we're going to do one that isn't going to let it go back to the telephone operators the next

guy comes in on the back of exposure closure We've got thirty five or thirty five we want at least 48. We can do much better than that if we get on it. It's one of those beautiful small things in the night. Can I get that shower water off your bathroom floor. Last item last item on fire. Here we go. Thirty seven dollars. Forty dollars. For that one for me. What do you have anything else with him. I don't see it. I certainly. See this working. I think I think you're on the air. I hope. We. If we take last night and tonight. And add the

two figures together we have raised for our auction the last two days over 40000. Oh I was gonna say one word to a person who's worked very hard behind the scenes more with Lockwood. Given the specials how many of those two people who wouldn't see these things this fast. Thank you both. Right now. Stay with us. Everybody we've got we've got we've got this door with the Swans on it 75 balloons already 75 bucks ready. Can you do any more. I'm going to get off the air. What more can you do. Two people bidding.

Can we get the cameras in on the girls taking you get to see the drama here. This love. You look at this poor thing down here. She's writing. This Gift that. She can hear. I don't know how. We. Get Here. It's. $75 we have somebody that's going for me. And in the meantime we're going to have another 30 seconds and if any more phone calls come in we'll take them 95. 95 on the bathroom. Ninety five ninety five dollars on the bath tub enclosure. One hundred one hundred and they're really coming up there. Now here I am 110 what would make it very nice. We've got a hundred and ten. What have we got here. Do you have anything else.

Come on friends. Those of you with those soggy bath bathroom floors heard they heard. That. They heard you're listening. Somebody listening right right. Oh OK. This is going to be right. OK. In 25. Look at the first one. OK friends. We're going to stop the foolishness. I want the next I want the thing sold in 30 seconds 30 seconds ago. This is your last 30 seconds right. Right. OK. Twenty five seconds and counting. Twenty five. I got ready. Ready. Fifteen seconds here. 75 confirmed on the bathtub. Here we go. Here we go. It's going. It's going. Here we go. And the winning bid in the bath tub enclosure. For. Seventy five dollars to Melbourne an eastern point.

Behind. Me. Right. And we got the big bonus tonight. There's gonna be some wonderful wonderful gifts you have to say for us about this that we've decided not because we want to make the right Saturday night. This is a heavy board. This is. John Major. Right. Of South Hamilton Massachusetts is a town the owner of the roach and craven incorporated 18 Arlington Street Boston. Spanish dining table for four hundred and sixty dollars at a bargain. Price. A big circle right. This is a celebration tonight. We're selling it to circle around 460. I don't know what it is. Thank you Rocci craving for the wonderful Spanish dining table. And now we've got the Shreve Crump and lower 330 Boylston Street Boston Massachusetts game console. Should we say how. Should we

sound. In honor of our $40000 for the last two days the game console for $950 supplied by Shreve Crump low light wonderful collection of games goes to. Mrs. Timothy Horrigan 25 Gannett road in Scituate Massachusetts. Right. Now I'd like to ask you to stand beside me on Josh a minute before we go. We have one item left. Not tonight. Maybe tomorrow night. Florida vacation and we've thrown in that bonus tonight. That special two week use of the credit card so it's fifteen hundred and forty dollars for board of vacation or five with the car with the house with everything. We'll be back tomorrow at 4:30 to this in a little earlier this is a. Special if you

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