Gottlieb Kingpin, my fond memories

When I was around 10 in the early 80's my Grandpa and Grandma moved from the farm into town. It is a small town of 800 people so arcade machines and pins were limited to a couple at the bowling alley. Imagine my surprise when helping them move in I found a pinball machine. It was a Kingpin that Grandpa paid the previous owners to leave. We never did find out what he paid for it.

I grew up playing that pin all the time. Nobody could beat me on it. I always had the high score. Dad and I were also the only people that could use a meter and keep it running so we were always working on it to keep it running. Not hard if you think thing through, but a lot of heat and power.

It is 30 years later and my cousins kids are still playing the pin. It really needs to be shopped because it has not had much as I have been traveling the world with Uncle Sam for the last 21 years. I hope to buy it from Grangma and restore it next summer. It does not have the speed of a modern pin but I still love it just the same.