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No more pins at John's Place (VA)

By jeffc

11 years ago

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#1 11 years ago

JEF

jeffc

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Sadly, the biggest pinball location in the VA/DC area has closed. We typically had 10-30 pinballs, 2 weekly leagues, 9 years of the Fairfax Open and a few Fall Classic tournaments.

News story on the closing of John's Place:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-nova/post/last-call-for-johns-place-king-of-the-northern-virginia-dive-bars-in-fairfax-city/2013/01/10/9c4d5698-5aac-11e2-9fa9-5fbdc9530eb9_blog.html

We are looking for a new home for the VA leagues - http://fspazone.org/ - as well as the Fairfax Open - http://virginiapinball.org.

If you have any ideas for locations, send them along.

In the mean time, you can join the FSPA league near Baltimore (Volleyball House), or join the pinball league in College Park, MD (Town Hall).

Go support location pinball.

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#2 11 years ago

CAT

DCFAN

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There is pretty much nowhere to play pinball publicly in Northern Virginia now

#3 11 years ago

PHL

Replay

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11y 24,150 278 2 10

Any idea who made the trophies?

It's too bad that a quality location closed, hopefully someone will see this as an opportunity in the area.

#4 11 years ago

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DCfoodfreak

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Ugh! Also a good biker bar in the summer. That sucks.

#5 11 years ago

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TaylorVA

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Sorry to read about this.

#6 11 years ago

JEF

jeffc

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Quoted from Replay:
Any idea who made the trophies?
It's too bad that a quality location closed, hopefully someone will see this as an opportunity in the area.

Trophies were made for us by Matt at www.backalleycreations.com who now makes cool stuff for Jersey Jack.

Edit: better trophy link:
http://www.backalleycreations.com/bac%20custom%20trophys.html
_{Post edited by jeffc : URL update}

#7 11 years ago

JIM

ebjimmyg

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12y 1,072

that stinks, always hate to see places like that close. maybe some pinsiders in that area can get together and start their own place to replace that.

#8 11 years ago

JAM

Jam_Burglar

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I was there a few nights before it closed. Great place, great lineup. The pins there were really nice and well maintained. It sucks that pin players complained about the bar part of it instead of supporting it better.

#9 11 years ago

MAT

The_Director

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Quoted from Jam_Burglar:
It sucks that pin players complained about the bar part of it instead of supporting it better.

Yeah, it's next to impossible to make a living solely off of pins/arcade these days. There almost has to be a second element in the mix that helps with revenue. Hearing news like this always makes me sad -- it's the place like this that I most prefer to go when I'm out.

#10 11 years ago

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Wolfmarsh

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BadBrick and I got a chance to play at John's this past year. Loved the place, shame to see it close.

#11 11 years ago

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#12 11 years ago

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DCfoodfreak

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Quoted from Jam_Burglar:
It sucks that pin players complained about the bar part of it

I certainly did my part to support the bar end of the gig ; )

#13 11 years ago

PHL

Replay

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OP
Quoted from jeffc:
Trophies were made for us by Matt at http://www.backalleycreations.com who now makes cool stuff for Jersey Jack.
Edit: better trophy link:http://www.backalleycreations.com/bac%20custom%20trophys.htmlPost edited by jeffc : URL update

Very nice, thank you.

#14 11 years ago

NAM

kwiKimart

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Sad news to hear.

#15 11 years ago

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TaylorVA

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OP
Quoted from jeffc:
Trophies were made for us by Matt at http://www.backalleycreations.com who now makes cool stuff for Jersey Jack.
Edit: better trophy link:
http://www.backalleycreations.com/bac%20custom%20trophys.html
Post edited by jeffc : URL update

Jeff- you need to roll down for our new league. First wed of every month

#16 11 years ago

RON

ronlisa

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Changing times.

#17 11 years ago

JEF

jeffc

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Good news - we have a new location for the VA league. Mighty Mike's in Sterling, VA on Monday nights - See here for more info:
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/spring-13-fspa-leagues-starting-new-va-location#post-601697

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