A couple of weeks ago we got a note from our new friends at the hit show American Pickers. They were researching an Irving Kaye Stanley Cup Hockey game barn find and they needed a little help. We were glad to oblige and here’s a clip of the show as it aired on the History Channel.

Celebrating the Silver Anniversary of Irving Kaye Co Inc. on the cover of RePlay Magazine in 1980.

Heres a cool follow-up to this 1980 profile on Howard and Arnold Kaye written by Eddie Adlum, Publisher of RePlay magazine from his blog September 2019. https://www.replaymag.com/september-2019/

Referring to Howard:

Howie was a fun guy, one of those “pushy” salesmen who sort of define the New York personality. We once got into a discussion about what “being happy” really meant and how you go about getting it. Howie’s definition of “happy” was having a pleasant life punctuated now and then by fun, even euphoric events (like charging down a steep slope on skis, which was his passion).”

Playboy Bunny’s Playing an Irving Kaye Super Soccer Foosball Table at Great Gorge Playboy Club in McAfee New Jersey

“The rabbit hutch that went awry: Playboy Great Gorge had seven hundred rooms, a twenty-seven-hole championship golf course, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, five restaurants, a cabaret venue, a discotheque, and enough convention space for up to four thousand people—all in the tiny village of McAfee within the vast township of Vernon. When Playboy enterprises stumbled in the 1980’s, so did this high-heeled alpine resort. In the last years of the twentieth century, the property’s new name became the Legends Resort and Country Club.”

The postcard image and details are from the book “Greetings from New Jersey a postcard tour of the Garden State” available from Amazon.com.

Foosball Tournament for Fun and Prizes

by Barbara Bjelke

At one time or another in one’s usual escapades in bars on or off campus, the game of foosball becomes a familiar sight or pastime. As for this reporter, I am more acquainted with the sight of the game than its details. Yet, this past weekend I was exposed to the game of foosball more and became acquainted with some of the finer points.

On March 18, and 19, there was a Hurricane Foosball Tournament held at the Holiday Inn of Stony Brook. The tournament, sponsored by the Irving Kaye Company, Incorporated drew participants not only from the immediate vicinity but from around the tri-state area as well. This weekend’s tournament is one leg in a series of tournaments to be held by the Irving Kaye Company this spring; all of which include $1,000 in prize money. [Read more…]

This eight-page catalog details the parts available for the Irving Kaye Super Soccer, Texas Ranger and Hurricane foosball tables. Estimated printing date 1969-1970.

Irving Kaye Soccer Parts Catalog No 13

These four flyers are from 1963 and feature the Eldorado Deluxe, the home table the Ambassador, the economy version the Satellite and the Klub Pool bumper pool table.

• Deluxe Eldorado 63
• Irving Kaye Ambassador
• Irving Kaye Satellite
• Irving Kaye Klub Pool

These 1960’s era photographs are from the archives of Aladdin Color Inc. in Lumberton, NJ. Aladdin Color was started by David Bard in 1953 and created color postcards & brochures for motels, hotels, car dealerships, restaurants, churches, amusement parks and resort towns across the USA. These four Aladdin photographs include images of classic Irving Kaye pool tables at various locations in New Jersey.

Carousel Motel Wildwood, NJ (1961)	Crusader Motel Wildwood, NJ
Fleur Di Li Motel, Wildwood, NJ	Congress Hall Cape May, NJ

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