My first pinball contact was att the local hotdog/candy/newspapper guy/old man in my village. He had three pins outside his store. Watching the older guys (this in mid-end 1970) I ended up in august spending all of my first summer-earning/summer-job bucks putting it all in to this pins. About 100 dollars. Never told my parents. My first own pinball i bought/traded in year 86-87, and owned for a few years, in my apertment. It was replace for a bed when I met my to be wife. But not long after a found a new spot in our new house to put in some pins. Ower the years the intersted as been up and down but I always have hade two to five pins, even if not playing for some years.
Since 2013, I have been trying to compete some, and buying/trading some more pins, I find it relaxing trying to restore and finish them up in good condition!
(Photo from summer 1998, me and my son, with Big Guns and Mata Hari).
