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“How I got here...”
It was 1982, and my parents just bought a foreclosed home in Coram, NY, a small town of Levitt tract homes on suburban Long Island. The house had been abandoned some eleven years at that time, and the "W Section" of Coram (named so because all of the streets started with a W) was a good place, so not a window in the home was broken. The doors were locked. By any standard, the home was a time capsule, with the remains of what the previous owners chose to leave behind.
Among the bits of furniture and other aging items was a Williams 4 Aces electromechanical pinball machine, inside of a > Read the full story...
“My 1969 Yankee Baseball Rebuild ...”
September 17th, 2017
Yankee Baseball Rebuild October 3 2015 – February 27 2016 A two player’s 1969 Yankee Baseball pitch and bat game. The flier says, Featuring ‘Realistic base running in lights on back glass and on playfield’, ‘scoring like baseball with three outs per > more...
“Pinball CHANGED MY LIFE”
August 30th, 2017
How Pinball made me who I am today. Williams HOLLYWOOD Pinball, 1961 & MY LIFE: The story of my Williams ‘HOLLYWOOD’ pinball machine goes WAY BACK and here is a short version of the story, of how it changed my > more...
“Hi there pin-dudes!”
August 28th, 2017
Based in R'dam I'm a pinball novice. We have a pinball museum overhere and I haven't even been there yet. I do like pinball though but my history is pretty short in comparison to some of you. We used to have > more...
“High Score at 20,000 Feet”
August 25th, 2017
High Score at 20,000 Feet Twilight Zone was a pin that had always gotten the best of me. Despite being a Lawlor fanatic, the basic flow and geometry of the machine was beyond me. It had defeated me, before that day. From > more...
“Story of a pinball addict: Going...”
August 16th, 2017
My fascination with pinball started about the time I began pestering my dad for loose change. What dimes and quarters didn't find their way into gumball and candy machines were plunked into pinball games. At the mall. At the bowling alley. > more...
“Ball saved, shoot again!”
August 13th, 2017
My father brought Gottlieb's Mustang home in 1982, and it was the most fascinating toy I'd ever seen. I still marvel at it to this day. Coining local machines to earn a knocker crack became a pillar of my childhood in the 80's, persisting into the > more...
