Hi, MMders:  I used to visit Harold's Club in Reno on business
trips years ago and I always took in their extensive collection
of mint-condition automatic music machines.  Next to their tavern
on the second floor was their beautiful Seeburg KT with flute pipes
and later addition Cremona art glass.

Harold's was so proud of this machine that they named their San
Francisco-style pub the "Nickelodeon Bar & Restaurant" and honored
their Seeburg by reproducing its image on a full-color gatefold menu.

I managed to finally sweet talk the hostess into selling me one of
these menus back in the day (a sort of focal point as I aimed to own
a real KT some day!  That never came to pass, although I did manage to
own an original KT Special).  I always enjoyed playing the KT, as it
played perfectly, and always lent authentic pre-prohibition Barbary
Coast atmosphere to the surroundings while I chowed-down on a burger
in a booth close by the door.

Time passed and inevitably the whole collection was auctioned off by
the new owners of the casino as a bottom line necessity, since the
machines were deemed "a money losing proposition" as they cost too
much to maintain.  I followed this auction at the time but lost track
of what happened to the pianos.  I know the former Harold's Club
world-class Seeburg G is out there somewhere, along with this
one-of-a-kind KT.

I had forgotten that I had this menu till the other day while I was
cleaning out some shelf space.  Since I don't have any G-roll machines
at the moment, I thought I'd put the menu on eBay, in hopes that the
owner of a Seeburg Eagle would enjoy it.  And since this machine with
Cremona glass is so well-known by cognoscenti in the automatic music
community -- and probably is tracked as closely as a tagged California
Condor -- I have this romantic notion of hoping its owner might
actually win the auction and reunite menu with machine once more.
You can find the link to this auction here:

  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140326465064 

This is not a blatant plug to hype the auction (it already has one bid)
but a sort of call to attention to all owners of Seeburgs in general
and KTs in particular that a neat little artifact was created once upon
a time to commemorate a neat little machine honoring a nice little
restaurant in "The Biggest Little City In The World."

And if the owner of this machine would like to share how the KT is
doing, along with the back story of the auction and the saga of the
orchestrions restoration, I'd like to know!

Thanks!
Mark Forer