I grew up going to this place called White Lake here in North Carolina. My family has been going there on and off since I was about 14 years old, so we’ve been going there on and off for almost 30 years. They have an arcade there called the Pavilion where you win tickets from games like most arcades but back then you won tokens and also back then no one cared if kids had pocket knives and at the arcade at White Lake back then they had pocket knives as prizes that you could trade your tokens in for. That’s what got me started but other than the pocket knives that I got from the arcade when I was a kid, I would buy a pocket knife here and there but I never really bought too many knives for a long time but over the last 3-5 years or so when I started going to gun and knife shows, that’s what got me hooked on collecting knives and now that I’ve gotten hooked, it’s basically turned into an addiction because over the last 12-14 months, I’ve either been given as gifts or bought roughly around 15-20 knives at least.
