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“The coming bull run”
A pinball museum in Banning, Calif., closed, and its 1100 game cabinets are up for auction in Sept.
I suspect this event will push the home pinball hobby over the edge -- it was teetering -- into the sphere occupied by comic book, sports memorabilia, and automobile collecting.
The Boom generation, flush with capital and a bent for nostalgia, did its utmost to grow their fandoms into industries. This turned old-school collectors into headshaking cynics, but who needs those dinosaurs. It also meant their children couldn't experience collecting as fun; they've been flippers and brokers from the start, but they never knew any different. No harm, no foul.
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“pinball: the worst day of my life”
August 28th, 2021
September 1980. At age 14, I moved away from home and attended the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey. Peddie is a small, co-ed college preparatory > more...
“The one that almost got away”
August 5th, 2021
I have always loved pinball since I was young. Bring a child of the early 80s much of my youth was spent in arcades. There > more...
“My Pinball adventure”
August 4th, 2021
Well, I guess my love of Pinball started when I was 9 when Dad gave me Microsoft Pinball Arcade for my birthday. He and I > more...
“The Summer of Sing Along”
August 3rd, 2021
I lost my place on the San Francisco Peninsula last year, and moved in with family in the East Bay. The upside to that is > more...
“Buying and Selling Pinball On A ...”
July 12th, 2021
The Start Back in 2019, a friend of mine got me back into pinball, I have always owned a Gottlieb Flipper (1960), where I am actually > more...
“The one that started it all”
June 26th, 2021
My parents vacation house was a farm. Not all that exciting for a kid growing up with everything so far away. Mostly used for ski > more...
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