Allison Cripe
Most of the records on the shelves (which Scarpone built by hand) are from Scarpone s own collection. A small percentage are from what customers have brought to him for consignment. The same goes for the vintage board games. Scarpone once attended a swap meet where he noticed a board game he’d owned as a child, available for only $1.
“From there, I couldn’t stop buying the games I had as a kid,” he said.
Now, Scarpone is also an expert on the subject. He wrote
Board Games: CD, published in 1995, followed by
More Board Games, published in 2000.