Rolling Stones Ticket & Photographs
GUEST:
50 years ago tonight, I was getting ready to see the Rolling Stones for the first time. I was 13. I went with my friends to the concert in Indianapolis at the Coliseum.
APPRAISER:
This is you, right?
GUEST:
Yes, that's me on the end. We kept track and remembered every song they sang. And we tried to get them in order.
APPRAISER:
And what is the note there about the hotel?
GUEST:
We decided we'd start calling every hotel in Indianapolis until they would put us through to one of the Rolling Stones, and they finally did. They sent us up there, and we got hung up on.
APPRAISER:
But you don't know who did it, do you?
GUEST:
No, I didn't recognize the voice.
APPRAISER:
You still have your ticket from the concert, and it's exactly 50 years today.
GUEST:
Tonight. Yes.
APPRAISER:
You took all of these pictures?
GUEST:
Yes, I did, on my mom's Brownie camera. We were on the 13th row on the floor, and we could go up as close to the fence line as we wanted.
APPRAISER:
The ticket market's starting to grow, and the Rolling Stones, having something from 1966... Brian Jones was still there, he was still alive. So that's a great time to have them. It's an early tour for them in the United States, and you were there. You could actually have that ticket taken out of the book to preserve it. If you did that, the ticket's probably worth $150, $200.
GUEST:
Wow.
APPRAISER:
Your program, it's not in great condition, because you loved it, and you wrote in it, so it's not worth a great deal. But all together here, it would probably be, at auction, $250 to $300.
GUEST:
Well, thank you, that's awesome.
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