I was recently getting a cut at the barbers talking with the guys and I brought up pinball. After responding to 4 or 5 of the usual questions a woman waiting for her son to finish asked me if I was interested in buying another pin. Her father was selling his home on the north shore of the island and he had a pin, a mame arcade and a slot machine he didn't want to take with him. She couldn't remember anything about the pin but I gave her my # and we planned to meet the next afternoon.
She texted me his address and he was 20 mins directly above my location on the island so I told her I was curious and would meet her there. Her parents both welcomed me into their magnificent home and we went downstairs. There in the corner of the basement was a beautiful Wheel of Fortune looking like they just unboxed it! I recently played this title at Allentown and thought it was one of the best highlights of the show for me. I had just decided this was the next target pin a few weeks beforehand. I tried to calmly as possible ask some questions without smiling from ear to ear. He told me he bought it straight from Stern in the beginning of 2008 for his grandchildren and they hardly played it. I turned her on and the display read FREE PLAY with no credit dot! I opened up the coin door and she smelled like a new car. Everything there including the goodie bag! We agreed on a price and I arranged to return with my son later that afternoon. We went back to pick her up and while were wrapping her up my son points out a built in dehumidifier hanging out on the wall right next to the machine, nice! We got her home without a scratch. Just wanted to share with everyone to always fit pinball into the conversation!
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