with budget shortfalls in these tough times, but one city in the east is getting a boost from relics of the old west. rick leventhal live from our newsroom with that. >> reporter: harrisburg, pennsylvania, elected a mayor back in 1980 who envisioned a city of museums. he spent more than $8 million on thousands of relics, antique weapons and artifacts from old horse-drawn wagons to wanted posters to sheriff's badges, but only one museum got built leaving these 10,000 or so items collecting dust in a massive warehouse. >> if there was ever a sort of every person's auction, this has got to be it because there are things that'll be quite expensive, i suspect, and things that will go for very affordable prices. and that makes it open to everyone. >> reporter: this ongoing auction raised nearly a million dollars yesterday alone on antique weapons, roughly two million total so far including $115,000 for teddy roosevelt's gun, ten times what was