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posted by CoolHand on Monday August 22 2016, @03:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-your-geek-history-here dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

On Monday, legendary tech shop Tekserve shuttered after a 29-year-run. Many have mourned the end of what was considered the precursor to the Apple Store — including a number of new media artists who reminisced about how the store helped them realize their projects. On August 23, though, you can bid to own a piece of Tekserve history, with nearly 500 objects that filled all rooms of the store going to auction, from old typewriters to bulky vintage cameras. Held on-site, it is organized by Roland Auctions, which has also published an online catalogue.

As expected, there's a lot of offerings for computer aficionados and collectors of gizmos. Tekserve, for instance, is searching for a good home for its famous "Mac Museum," which comprises 35 computers that represent the development of Apple from 1984 to 2004. One of them is even signed by Steve Wozniak. Jan Albert, who is married to co-founder Dick Demenus, told Hyperallergic she would like a design museum or engineering museum to purchase it to continue inspiring artists and technicians to "Think different." Much of Tekserve's collection was amassed by Demenus, and his collection of vintage radios and microphones that lined the walls by Tekserve's entrance is also entirely up for sale. Demenus is even selling his worktable, a mid-century-modern Jens Risom executive desk.

And [sic] addition to the contraptions, there's a number of artworks for sale that initially arrived from customers or were owned by David Lerner, Tekserve's other founding partner. Available, for instance, is a signed Robert Rauschenberg exhibition poster, an abstract painting by one E. Victor Gotthelf, and this random plaster bust of Benjamin Franklin. Besides dealing with technology, Tekserve actually hosted a number of exhibitions over its lifetime, including a show of discarded laptops engraved by Michael Dinges; a display of Ken Brown's films and animations shown on the store's monitors; and a show of photographer Chester Higgins Jr.'s portraits from Africa.


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