I'd have to imagine once you are opened, and the dust settles, and the curiosity from the town is over, you could do just about anything short of hanging a neon "open" sign 7 days a week.

Wow! Two days in and we're well on our way to our goal! Thank you all so much for your help with this project, both financially and from the supportive comments. I'm so glad to be a part of this great pinball community, and especially all of the fantastic folks here on Pinside.

Just remember, anything over our goal will go towards other improvements than the roof. If you check out the website, www.vfwpinball.com, you can see that we're tearing down a couple of walls and re-doing some drywall and flooring. Every little bit helps....

Thanks,
Eric V.

I was just out there tonight. The place will be awesome when it is finished. Clay really wants to do it up right. Now they are working on making more open space. Some paint and it will be really nice.

thx for sharing, sounds great and congrats.

Wow came a long way in a short time. Great to see so much support.

I see the goal was met today, but judging by the pictures of demolition, one would think a few extra bucks couldn't hurt! bump!

Looks like 1 more big backer finished it up way to go!

A big thanks to all you outsiders helping out on this for all of us that live here in Michigan.

So make it a club... like the VFW. I'm sure they got to be open more than 4 days a year. The VFW club near me serves lunch every day for members.

It's karma Clay. Wish I was closer. Probably never make it there. But for all you have done for the community, we all should be donating.

Good luck with it and with your new house.

I'm so happy to see that the Kickstarter project is funded and there's still many days left! Can't wait for the grand opening. Thanks Clay!

Just added to the Kickstarter total. Sure they can use the $.
Glad to see there's significant progress already.

I'll be adding my 2 cents worth to the campaign soon. Will there be another chance to re-up again after May 2014?

Yes of course everything has to have a time limit, especially Kickstarter rewards. Because there's a firm delivery date required and hence an ending date too. They can't be open ended.

Things are progressing. This week the new drywall should be up and i hope next weekend painted. Some new flooring needs to be installed too, which should be next week.

Starting to get more Michigan kickstarter donations. that's a good thing as we were amiss at the low numbers of michigan people getting involved. The point that is largely missed is that since the township locked us at public openings four weekends a year, the best way to get "private" and weekly visitation rights is to jump on the kickstarter program. So for michigan people, that's the best way to get involved.

The other challenge for the project is getting "traction" (as they say) in the pinball media. Meaning we really haven't been asked any "formal" questions by blogs or websites or other pinball related media. The reason we find this interesting is that we're for real, this IS happening, it's not some wild wide-scope dream. The pieces are coming in place nicely, and by sometime in September, it will be a functional pinball museum.

Have you tried to distribute a press release to media outlets? Especially pinball-related sites and blogs, they'll take what you write and copy/paste it in their news feeds.

The local media has been all over it! at the township media a local radio station was there, and put it on the AP wire. if you googled "green oaks pinball museum" seven pages of unique news outlets showed they carried it. which we thought was pretty cool, everywhere from San Diego to Texas to Kansas City to Miami to Detroit. But that said, no pinball news blogs or websites have contacted us. We find that pretty interesting that the people whom are most effected, seem the least interested. It may just be the state of affairs now with everyone seemingly wanting to open a barcade or museum.

This has probably more to do with it than anything. even though it is a big country and you are putting this in a new region.

Good luck with everything.