Quoted from pinwiztom:

I have known Sam since the mid 90s, and saw him fairly often at all the Super Auctions in Orange county back in the day
when they had them about once a month and also saw him at pinball shows in California and once shared a hotel room with him
when we went to Expo together in the 90s.
I had been to his house many times to visit and talk pinball and food and play a few games on his Slick Chick or WMS King Pin
that he had always set up in his bedroom.
Though it has been a few years since I last visited, since I moved to Oregon, prior to his being bedridden.
To get to his bedroom one had to transverse a maze of games
(some bodies and heads stacked to the ceiling or a few set up & playable)
going from his living room, past the jukebox and his TV & VCR and some file cabinets
of records and Playmeter&CoinSlot magazines,
thru the dining room and a sun room before getting to his bedroom.
In his bedroom he had his SlickChick and KingPin next to his huge round bed (ala Austin Powers) and another row of file cabinets
against the other wall filled with more pinball paperwork and schematics amassed in any one place other than
maybe Steve Young's Pinball Resource warehouse.
All his pinball flyers are in a whole other closet in huge binders along with his compilation of pinball machine serial numbers
he has documented over the years at shows and pinball auctions.
Again in the other bedroom were more bodies and heads again stacked to the ceiling and
in several custom designed sturdy wood boxes was where he kept his spare backglasses each slot filled with many NOS BGs.
There were probably almost 100 pins inside the house, but maybe only a dozen set up to play.
Outside in his backyard there was another building that at one time was a gameroom where he had a pool table set up
but was now using as his repair shop and housed all his spare pinball parts and mechs on metal shelves in parts boxes organized
and labeled with the original pinball manufacturer part #s.
In his unattached garage nearby were more games stored along with more shelves with pinball parts.
Sadly that garage is barely standing and has tarps covering the roof to prevent the rain from getting in.
You stated that he was now living with a roommate, which was news to me, and that his roommate owns the house.
Did Sam sell him his pinball house or give it to him in return for daily care or were you at another house all together?
How is Sam's weight doing, at one time he supposedly lost about 100 lbs,
but I fear being bedridden he may have put some back on.
You owe us a few of Sam's (new/old) bad jokes.
and the rest of your interview with him.