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The Chip Board Archive 25

Weekend Finds -Santa Fe Springs Swap

Finally figured out how to get to the elusive Santa Fe Springs Drive-In Movie Concert & Swap Meet! Clearly visible from the freeway - but . . . the old I-5 Freeway exit at Valley View has been cut off for the new freeway; next exit is 3 miles south, in Orange County. All street names change. Got totally lost down there last weekend - today started off about the same but I finally found the swap meet entrance at the road marked "Freeway" (it isn't).

After all that - not much in the way of casino items or even yard-sale type stuff - mostly new items. One of those where vendors rent little buildings and presumably keep stuff all week long. Finally found one man, a coin dealer, who had more old Mexican pesos than El Banco de México. But amid a tray of tokens and what-not I found some treasures:

That little ficha is a 2,000 pesetas coin from Recreativos Franco, S.A., Madrid. Not sure if it was used on a card table, or came out of an arcade game. I could "harley" contain my glee in finding the Harley-Davidson Café token!


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