Through some various twists of fate a rare and beautiful occasion has occured, namely Letter K getting an entire weekend off! I've decided that instead of replacing circuits on my Sinbad (which is what I should be doing) I'm going to take off to Santa Cruz to enjoy some sand, carnival fun, and pinball in the Boardwalk's main arcade.
I'm waiting for the wife to get out of the shower now and I can't wait!
Enjoy your weekend holiday and take some pictures. Either of the pinballs you play or the wife showering ... we're not picky .. hehe 
Let us know which pins they got out there. Personally, I haven't been out there for years, but the last time I went they had some killer pins.
Well, I'm back. I had a great time at the beach; just not as much of that fun as I'd thought was on the pins. I'll work on the full list for my blog in the next day or two, but wouldn't recommend anyone making the trip out just for the pins. They had a good 20 pinball machines, and a good 3 of them were in solid working order. We're talking dead bumpers, broken field flippers, lazy doors, the whole bit.
I spent a lot of time on the Elvis machine, not just because I love the King, but because it all worked. Even some very recent games like Family Guy and Spiderman had been left to rot and had serious repair issues.
Ah well, the true pinball holiday comes in April when I go to Vegas and spend a day at the hall of fame there! I'm sure those people have more respect for their machines.
too bad you cant find a BG for that Expo 'k' ?
just saw an Expo pin on ebay they said it's rare and at $1500 
Great info on that blog, Letter_K.
I had ideas of driving up to Santa Cruz to play pinball, but now I'll just wait for California Extreme in Santa Clara (15-20 min drive from here).
Looks like some of those pins were in craptastic condition. Funny that Austin Powers and Playboy didn't work. You almost want to thank the terrible operators for a job badly done. Both of those Stern pins suck!
Let us know how your trip to the Pinball HoF goes Lionel. I want to go eventually, just to say I have played the super rare "Pinball Circus" from Williams.
I'm driving through Las Vegas with the family this week and we'll spend some time at the HoF. I'll pass along how well maintained the machines are (or aren't). I was at Pinball Pete's in East Lansing this week and they had about a dozen machines but several were in poor shape. Considering that's where the HoF guy got his start, I'm a little leery about how well maintained the machines will be in LV.
That may be where HoF got it's start but they are not there now. The old management shouldn't be compared to the new ones.
Hopefully there won't be any Hassle at the HoF.
Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.
Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!
This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mini-pinball-holiday and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.
Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.
Stockton, CA
Larodde
