"Garage Gold and Avalon Hill" Topic

Not actually miniatures, but did anyone catch Garage Gold this weekend? Cleaning out some family's garage, amidst the usual rubbish they opened an old box that was full of Avalon Hill original edition classics – D-day, Gettysburg, Midway, Battle of the Bulge, Africa Corps, etc.

My first thought was…. "that's where my games went!" :)

Ahhh the memories. There was a time in the late 70's when I owned every AH wargame title they made up until then. Sadly all gone now.

I've still got a bunch of those games, some unopened some beat up. But then again I'm a packrat that never gets rid of anything.

When I was 15 (mid-1980s) or so I ran into a real garage sale like that and scored four games at $5 USD each, but the tragedy was there were probably another 10 I could have gotten if I'd only been thinking ahead!

My score included Third Reich, NATO, Panzerarmee Afrika, and Battle Over Britain. Some pretty good gaming time and value was gotten out of them, certainly my $20 USD worth.

About 20 years ago, when I worked an hour from home, I went out for lunch and stopped at a garage sale. Fellow was a kit collector and had a two car garage stacked floor to ceiling with kits of all kinds with only narrow aisles between the piles. Said he was closing at 1:00 and everything left was being hauled off to a shop 250 miles awa. He was asking $1 USD per kit and I only had $5 USD with me, and no access to an ATM. ;(

VSB: If you weren't in Texas,I would have guessed I saw them about then at a flea market in Harper's Ferry,WV.--an entire box truck – load piled on table after table one morning.When I asked about prices,I was told "Sorry,that feller down there at the end just bought'em all".

D'oh!

I had so many AH games back in the day. Sold most of them after I got into miniatures to get more miniatures. Sold probably 15 games 1 year at Michicon, a convention outside of Detroit many years ago.

Still have all of my AH games and I have most if not all the classics and their re-makes. The only ones I sold were SPI World War Three type games.

Once the Berlin Wall came down I lost interest in them. Except for the "East is Red", that one is a keeper.

Some of my AH games are mint and some are the ones I played the heck out of when I was in Junior High. I wish I could play them again. Don't know what I am going to do with all of them.

I had a buddy of mine sell all my old Avalon Hill games on eBay back in 2004. My much-played, beat-up and well-loved copy of Guadalcanal went for over $250.00 USD! Two guys really wanted it.