Looking in the back of the old Blue tube telescope we can see the back of the mirror, but we can also see that the coating on the mirror is damaged or missing.  This from the aluminum in the mirror surface decaying or being destroyed by bird droppings.  Someone left the covers off both telescopes, so both of the old mirrors would have to be re polished to get them back into good condition and have them re-coated with a fresh surface.  Rather than coat them as the club has access to plenty of telescopes we removed the mirrors and they can be seen at the observatory, complete with the decay that happened to them.   We stored the old tubes for a while, but they were finally removed from the observatory.  Newer tube designs which are lighter are much better than these old heavy tube designs from many years past.  There a much better ways to make a telescope portable and more usable, so we didn't restore those telescopes.