After almost 40 years in the same location, the Pinball Warehouse has decided to close it's doors.

Going out of business sale will be next Saturday, the 21st, at 10:00 AM. Everything must go. Al and Aaron are open to all offers.

I took a few pics yesterday.

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No auction. Just make an offer. No reason to contact Al. He's not willing to hold anything. First come first served.

Al has no regular hours anymore, other than Saturday.

Dear God, no!

Kind of a shell of a place now. The handwriting has been on the wall for a number of months now.

Aaron gave me a cool banner he thought would look good in your place.

They're both a bit older now.

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True. For years, Al was buying out operators getting out of pinball. Now, those same ops might be getting back in. There was a time ops were selling on Craigslist, now they're buying. There's just no cheap source of pinballs anymore.

At 78 years old, it seems like a good time for this to happen to Al.

If anyone needs a pinball or arcade key...I know a guy.

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That big one needs a new transformer. I picked up this small one because of its size. It's 12" in diameter. This is after tear down and clean up.

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All the games are for sale. Not sure what playfields are left.

The Pegasus is sold and Al wanted to keep the axis rats. I was interested in that.

Al wanted me to mention he found 4 boxes of 78 records. No idea how many records. Just 4 boxes.

http://www.pinballwarehouse.com/

Some things are priceless.

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Me and a couple friends helped Al and Aaron a couple of weekends ago. They told a number of stories about the good old days. Al has lots of pics of he and Sue with industry people.

Al, at one time, rented 5 units similar to the one in the pics. Some with pallet racking to the 20' ceiling. Pins everywhere.

Aaron thinks they may have sold close to 1000 TAF's over the years. They bought them constantly.

I remember buying an IJ from them years ago. Al had 6 of them lined up. I had my choice. Same thing with WHO. I think he had 4 lined up.

They bought many containers of games over the years.

Of course, times are different now. Not sure an operation like this will ever happen again.

Here's a pic of better times.

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The Hamm's motion one went early. $1200 I believe.

Aaron opened that one up so we could look around. Gave us the history but I forget. Al has had it forever.

Beautiful game. Looks HUO. I would have bought it if it was anything but a DH.

Cleaned up this one yesterday.

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These are too big to clean in the house. I’ll wait until the weather is a bit nicer and take them outside.

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