By Eric Mungenast East Valley Tribune
A tour of Michael Pollack’s three museums show a man who revels in a past that started well before his entry into the world. One is loaded with memorabilia from bygone days, things that used to linger behind the glass panes on department storefronts to convert window shoppers into spenders. A couple other pieces have a “one of these things is not like the others” ring to it given their relative modernity, like the mini statue of Sonic the Hedgehog.
That one museum alone has approximately 8,000 pieces valued at a blank number of dollars — Pollack wouldn’t say how much, but he said one piece alone is worth approximately $70,000 — and he has two additional museums devoted to slot machines from the early days of the 1900s and a few decades forward.
