Bucharest
First contact with pinball was when I was 7 years old at a neighborhood Ice skating arena with capperville & wiggler a credit was very expensive 1 leu which was also price of the cheap but good ice cream so hard to decide between ice cream and a 3 ball game ,,,,,In the summer time the Ice skating arena worked as a cafetaria with the remaing pinballs inside but close to it was a bumping cars arena on which 1 round was 2 lei also very hard to decide between a "quick loose of the balls " in 2 games or a bumping car ride .
In 1990 I had opportunity to open a small gaming facility and for that I bought 4 poker games 3 pinball's : High Speed , Space Station , Spring Break and 6 video games ,,,, poker games were never put in place but the rest of the arcade games were set up in different places so I start to operate them and make import from western Europe and distribution in Romania .From 2001 I get oriented into the collector and game room area. In 2001 I ve sent first 20 feet container load in USA till 2003 I ve send via containers 200 pins to USA . In 2003 wholesale was over as a business and I was starting retail machines and parts sale which I do now too..
