Definitely search the businesses on Pinside, as there is some great art and photography. There’s a guy out of the DFW area (at TPF the latest few years) that does some really nice 3-D art (Albright I believe...on Etsy possibly), very cool stuff. Also, picking up some old flyers, schematics, or posters on Ebay can be a fun search.

Houston seems to have been a pretty quiet group on Pinside. Usually catch up with lots of people at the fall Expo, but not this year. I agree though, could use a bit more activity, especially considering we’re pretty limited on visiting any other way.

I’ll throw my 2-cents in for some future get-togethers...it would be cool if there were a few people that would be willing to help with pin repair knowledge. Sure, there’s lots online, but that’s not the same as knowing someone and someone local at that. I know, we’ve got to get the COVID crap out of the way first. But, talking about it now will maybe be motivation as we get through all this. Anyway, thanks for putting up this post...agreed we could all use a bit more local pin friends.