PHOF opened yesterday at reduced hours with every second game off. Masks required at ALL time. No outside food or beverage. No infants No strollers. All gun games with long rifles OFF. Did 387 dollars in games Sold 120 worth of membership. It is a strat up a long slow process to recovery.

At the same time, I paid 105,000 dollars for air conditioning units at the new location, along with 83,000 for rebar, and 43,000 for ceiling fans and ducts work.

While these costs were included in our budget and were anticipated, it is REALLY scary to spend that much money while little is coming in.

Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas has been open every day since June 1st, when the Governor allowed our class-of-trade to reopen.

The first week was really slow, then it moved up slowly until about the middle of July, where it plateaued at 30 percent to 50 percent of last years same week numbers.

Before this, we were closed for 12 weeks. All this time we were locked inside working on machines. Most of the row of em wedge heads were removed and put in the BIG HIT SHED, they will be brought back when we move uptown. In their place we brought in a lot of Ted Zale zipper-flipper games. Those are all dialed in now and I have had about equal comments pro and con. A lot of people liked the Gottliebs, and missed them, but DAMN, those asymmetrical Ball games are fun.

Change cups were removed. Popcorn and snack machines were emptied, cleaned and parked. Drinks in sealed containers were allowed from the soda machines, but you had to use a bendy straw to slide under your mask. A turnstile was installed on the East door for exit only and all entrance was from the West door. We have always had a huge oversupply of moving air, not because we anticipated Covid, but because ceiling fans blow across your skin and allow us to use less air conditioning, a huge expense in the hottest climate in North America. We rearranged the machines to allow us to leave the most popular games available and turned off the less popular stuff so that every second game is now dark. When you first walked in, it looked like the place was creepy dark, so we turned on the overhead florescent lights. The reaction from our regular customers was very positive. We would also allow people to play a dark machine after checking with and allowing the attendant to turn off the machines on either side. This brings us within the 6 feet of social distancing required. Some of our volunteers drifted away after the shutdown, so we cut hours from 11pm closing to 9pm,and Beth cooked dinner every night so we could run a single shift.

About the only real problem we have has is the MASK DENIGHERS. When we first reopened, I just figured everybody would be on board for a simple, painless way to get the economy moving again and protect everybody from a deadly virus that has killed 200,000 people. Boy was I wrong. We stop them at the door and many claim they don't have to wear a mask because they are "exempt", or that they should not be required to purchase a mask from our vending machine. (In those cases, we give them a damn mask!) The they get inside and start playing. They pull the mask down or take them off. We give them one warning in the usual LOUD AND FIRM VOICE, then they have to leave. Hundreds of warnings each day and about a dozen kickouts. Many on the way out the door spout some crap about "FREEDOM!!!". BULLSHIT! Nobody is taking anything away from you overprivileged spoiled bastards. It's a public health issue ONLY! The King is not taking your land or locking you up without a trial. Grow up, shut up and do as the government tells you!

As a whole I consider our situation to be bearable and other than the 500,000.00 it has cost us in lost revenue, painless. All our staff is fine and well. The yard cats are fed and watered every day, and the store cat is a big hit with the customers.

The new building on the strip has been surprisingly unaffected. Since all the work is done outside or inside a building with no doors and 40 foot ceilings', there has been no sickness among the workers. No materials suppliers have been affected to the point that progress has been delayed. Still looking for completion in late December or early January. We have to vacate the existing building by May so that should give us enough time to move over from one to the other with NO loss of days.

The pickets in front of both locations has have had little or no effect that we can see. There might be some who do not cross, but since we don't see them, we can't tell. I also think it was dirty pool of the Carpenters to call us "Child Rapists" on a banner facing the strip because a non union worker lied on his employment application several years ago at ANOTHER JOB run by the same sub-contractor. All the other unions had no problem with our unique status as the only not-for-profit on the strip and left us alone. I have no problem with the union out on the sidewalk, but calling us names is below the belt.

We continue to get up every day and work as hard as we can to get ready to make entertainment history when we open on the Strip. We have some moments of panic and fear, but our staff is small and bound together by our mission. With luck and effort, things will be fine again soon.

Pinball Hall of fame in Las Vegas is open, has been since June 1st.

Here at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, we are still open, but because the Governor has ordered all citizens to stay at home, our traffic has been reduced in the last week from 30 to 50 percent of last year to 20 to 40 percent of last year.

We are still coming in every day and using the time to get more equipment from storage ready for our new building which will be 3 times as large as our present facility. The income from the Billboard sign pays out electric and water bills, we pay no rent, so while the lack of income hurts, it is not going to make us close.

The total lost revenue so far from Covid slowdown/shutdown tops 500,000 dollars. Our original plan was to coast up to having the building on the Strip paid for the day we opened, but it now looks like we will run out of money sooner than that and will have to borrow more to get the job done.

Keep in mind that we were committed to finishing the building the day we bought the land. Being "all in", as they say in Vegas. The latest estimate is sometime in mid January. We have to be out of our old location by May, so there is still enough time to get things moved with out having the threat of running out of time causing stress and rushing.

One thing that has our staff REALLY stressed is the complete disregard a lot of our customers have about our self imposed STRICT NO MASK-NO STAY policy. All the spoiled Karens and Kens that think it is a fun little game to run around the poor minimum wage types that are beneath their station. They pull off the mask the SECOND you walk away. It distracts us from working to improve our product and causes massive amounts of stress having to eject people.

That is what happened today. Who knows what will happen next.....