The Barbershop Art Deco Chair Vintage Barber Car Shop Awesome Chairs Vintage Chairs Style Vintage Barber Shop Barber Chair Forwards This chair is second to none.. like old cars this chair exhibits some style! Art Deco barber chair. time has come to expose the truth about the chair used in the George Pal version of the Time Machine. A lot of time and effort has gone into uncovering the information on this page. saga began in 1970. M.G.M. announced they were having an auction andM.G.M. had produced many of my favorite films and TV series and being born in Culver City and living only 3 blocks from the studio I was really interested in going. You needed an auction catalog to be admitted, so I scraped together the $10.00 needed andI received their 'catalog' a box containing 5 printedIt was amazing, everything from hand props, costumes, weapons, scoured their contents looking for anything from my favorite shows. Then there it was, The Time Machine, Wow!, it was a dream come true.

Not that I would be able to buy it, I was only 18 and just out of high school, but just to see it. Then looking further I found listed another Time Machine, could it be the miniature? I could hardly wait for the first day of previewing the auction items. day I was at the studio with catalog in hand. First stop lot 1 stage 7, the Time Machine. I found the stage and entered, those of you in the film industry can probably anticipate what I saw, there was the Time Machine in the center of the stage looking quite decrepit. base was scuffed, the rails dull, the console had been replaced, the upholstery was faded and over all the machine looked as if it had beenNothing at all reminiscent of its film presence. So often when you see things in person that were on film they neverThe lighting and camera angles can improve their lookTo be honest, at the time I wasn't even sure it was theI recall being rather disappointed at seeing it. now it was of to lot 3 the Kismet locker to see what the other Time

Lot three was at the corner of Overland and Jefferson,I arrived and entered the backlot and preceded to the Kismet locker. The Kismet locker was essentially one of many storage sheds (they can be seen in various Outer Limits episodes) to the left inside the gate. I entered the locker and looked around, no Time Machine in here only some furniture and the two headed tortoiseoffice desk chair casters from the Addams family (cool). best highchair for babyLater I discovered the mystery behindbuy chair gumtree the second Time Machine. baby glider chair replacement cushionsThe machine was originally stored in the Kismetbaby bean bag chair tutorial

locker and was inventoried for the auction, then the Morlocks moved it to stage 7 for higher visibility (sorry, I had to say it) and it was inventoried the second time. Later, when the contents of the Kismet locker were being sold, I went just to be sure. that I had satisfied myself regarding the whereabouts of the Time Machine I browsed through the rest of the Hollywood memories to be auctioned.bean bag chairs ratings As I entered stage 27 the first thing I saw were two Berninghaus barberhigh chair sale adelaide chairs identical to the one in the Time Machine, I now knew the chairbloom high chair usa was an actual barber chair. cheap large swivel chair

I didn't look for the manufacturers name, why bother, why would I need it. I only planned to build a model of the machine and now I knew what the chair looked like. following days found me in the presence of the Time Machine making sketches of details and counting rivets. One day I borrowed my father's Argus C3 camera and took some B&W photos of the machine, another day I shot a few color photos with my instamatic (I'm dating myself here). you will find a photo of the 1/6 th scale chair I made that summer for my model. Each day I would go to the studio and take down details then come home and work on the chair. to finish this model. I'm sure this will lead to another set of pages on this site in time. Time Machine was auctioned, I recall for around $4000.00 to someone who was going to take it on tour across the US. into obscurity for the next two years. to the Time Machine being found, Harvey Mayo had thought that the chair

was indeed an actual barber chair and attempted to track down the maker, but results were not forthcoming and the search was postponed. 1972 the Time Machine was found in an antique store in Orange CountyTom called Harvey Mayo knowing his great attraction for the machine and asked if he was interested in buying it. main interest was in the miniature and he also had no place to put it and so declined the offer. Tom then called Bob Burns and Bob was able to acquire the machine. The chair had been removed and sold separately. Bob brought in a few of his friends to restore the machine. Harvey was brought in to build a replacement for the console which was also missing. chair was built by Tom Scherman and others. The Time Machine made its debut at the, then, annual Bob Burns Halloween Extravaganza. has since been seen in various venues and currently rests in the 'Bob Stockbarger and I met Chris Perrotta at a memorabilia and model show

in Pasadena, Chris had entered a model of the Time Machine he had built. When he discovered that Steve and I probably knew more about the original machine and movie than just about anyone he became quite interestedThrough Chris I met John Rosa who was also a fan of the machine. John is responsible for researching and replicating the rosette which I have used on the machine I made. That's another story in itself. also was able to track down and purchase one of the Berninghaus chairs (photos of it below); however, he kept it a secret, to this day we don'tJohn passed away from a brain tumor within 6 months afterHe did let Chris in on his secret and this is how Chris was able to do such a wonderful job in his detailed drawings of this same time, Harvey again began searching for the elusive chair. His persistence paid off when he found a dealer who had just sold one of the chairs and was able to at least provide some photos of it, these