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SCOOTER'S PINBALL STORY
Written by scooter, published March 1st, 2009. Read 185 times. 3 comment(s).
I got interested in pinball when I was 14 years old playing at a department store while my mother shopped, the game I played was Traildrive from the early 70's.It was not my first time playing but that is when I became interested!Then in !976 While I was still in school,worked for my Dad at nights and Weekends doing various constrution projects(for no pay to me).Dad would give me five dollars and me and 2 buddies would go out on Friday & Saturday nights to eat at Mcdonalds and go to the bowling alley to play Pinball for 2-3 hours. We did this for 3-4 years until we started our own familys.Some of our favorite games were Aztec,Freedom,Liberty bell and later on Cleopatra and 8- ball deluxe.We got quite good as we could play most of the night on a few quarters!
I played once in a great while from then until this year when the Pinball bug bit me again.Home builder by profession kept me busy,then I came across a fellow that had an old Airport Pinball machine in his garage with junk stacked on top of it,tried to buy it but He wanted to keep it.Then I searched the intrenet untill I recently found an old Freedom machine that had been fixed up and I bought it for $400.00,and that is my Pinball story!!
FROM LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY------------SCOOTER
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Hellodeadcity commented on March 13, 2010 00:21:26
Trail drive I think I saw one for sale last year,
I often think about what became of the games we played years ago.
-good luck with the collection
jbscar commented on April 04, 2010 20:05:55
A department store?! Wow, thats one I haven't heard for 'where to play pinball!"
Hard to find machines to play out on location now adays! I doubt you would ever find one at a department store!
scooter commented on April 09, 2010 12:47:48
jbscar You could see a pin almost anywhere in the 60's and 70's.At diners,barber shops,department stores,bowling alleys and arcades,the good old days!