'Cheers' bar sells for $650,000 at auction
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🗓️ 6 June 2023
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know if you heard about this, but the bar from the television series Cheers sold |
| 0:04.6 | for $675,000 at auction. |
| 0:10.2 | So this was this three day auction. |
| 0:12.4 | It had thousands of props, costumes, and sets from different classic TV shows all offered |
| 0:18.0 | up in this collection. |
| 0:19.4 | The collection was amassed by one man over more than three decades. |
| 0:24.5 | He said it was his dream to create a museum to house his collections, but he failed to put |
| 0:29.6 | it together, and instead listed all of it up on heritage auctions. |
| 0:35.6 | So the Cheers sold set, the Cheers set sold, rather, also the set from all in the family. |
| 0:43.5 | Batman and Robin costumes worn by Adam Weston, Bert Ward, they sold for $615,000. |
| 0:51.0 | So it was a three day event wrapped up in Dallas on Sunday, brought in over $5 million |
| 0:57.0 | for this one guy. |
| 0:58.0 | The Plenko set, the original Plenko set from Price's Right was one of the items as well. |
| 1:02.4 | Where would you put it? |
| 1:03.4 | No, no, any of it. |
| 1:06.6 | I mean, okay, if you're a Batman fan, I get the costumes, okay, cool. |
| 1:10.4 | It's like baseball player, football player jerseys that people will buy and display them. |
| 1:16.2 | I get that. |
| 1:17.4 | But where are you putting the set from Cheers? |
| 1:20.5 | Is this like sign felled? |
| 1:21.5 | Remember when Kramer got the murder? |
| 1:23.4 | The murder of Griffin set. |
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