Pinball History

Coast Chronicles: Tucker Wachsmuth, collector extraordinaire

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Coast Chronicles: Tucker Wachsmuth, collector extraordinaire – Columns –http://www.chinookobserver.com/co/columns/20180314/coast-chronicles-tucker-wachsmuth-collector-extraordinaireThe nut house For several hours a couple Saturdays ago, the community room at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum turned into a pinball arcade. All manner of friends, neighbors, and hangers-on — 75 of us — stopped by for the fun. How did this felicitous event come […]

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Pinball resurgence rolls along with passionate players in Akron, Cleveland and beyond

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Pinball resurgence rolls along with passionate players in Akron, Cleveland and beyondhttps://www.ohio.com/akron/entertainment/pinball-resurgence-rolls-along-with-passionate-players-in-akron-cleveland-and-beyondIt used to be huddled in the corner. Its colors muted, its lights darkened, its calamitous noises silenced, a place to toss your coat or rest your drink, its scribbled “Out of Order” sign like an ominous headstone signifying its fate: Ghost of Games

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Warren Buffett’s Weirdest Investments That Helped Make Him a Billionaire Began with Pinball

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Warren Buffett’s Weirdest Investments That Helped Make Him a Billionairehttps://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/warren-buffetts-weirdest-investments.html/?a=viewallWhen Warren Buffett invests, people pay attention. But it’s hard to explain these strange investments — even for Buffett.

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Pinball Wars! The Long, Strange Legal Battle Over Pinball in Milwaukee

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Pinball Wars! The Long, Strange Legal Battle Over Pinball in Milwaukee – Shepherd Expresshttps://shepherdexpress.com/around-milwaukee/what-made-milwaukee-famous/pinball-wars-the-long-strange-legal-battle-over-pinball-in-m/Pinball was once thought to be so threatening to young people that it was the focus of a two-decade battle by city authorities to minimize its wicked influence.

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Stern Pinball’s Gary Stern on the evolution of pinball since the 1930s

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Stern Pinball’s Gary Stern on the evolution of pinball since the 1930shttps://www.avclub.com/stern-pinball-s-gary-stern-on-the-evolution-of-pinball-1819703840Chicagoland’s Stern Pinball says that it’s the “oldest and largest designer and manufacturer of arcade-quality pinball games on the planet.” The A.V. Club took a trip to the company’s headquarters in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, and interviewed owner and president Gary Stern about the

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Looking Back: Pinball machines and syndicated crime in Marion history

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Looking Back: Pinball machines and syndicated crime in Marion historyhttp://www.dailyrepublicannews.com/lifestyle/20171011/looking-back-pinball-machines-and-syndicated-crime-in-marion-history-Sam Lattuca tells us about a less known bit of Marion criminal history: How a syndicated gang controlled our area at least into the 1960s, warring over control of slot machines, pinball machines and jukeboxes.

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Check Out This Weird Semi-Legal Punk Pinball Machine From 1982

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Check Out This Weird Semi-Legal Punk Pinball Machine From 1982 — Kerrang!http://www.kerrang.com/the-news/copyright-punk-pinball-sex-pistols-clash-joy-division/The machine’s design obscures letters from the bands’ names – so “Sex Pistols” becomes “X PIS”; “Dead Boys” becomes “EAD BO”; “Depeche Mode” turns into “PECH MO” and “Joy Division” becomes “OY DIVISIO”.

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Exploring the physics of pinball at the Chabot Space & Science Center

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Exploring the physics of pinball at the Chabot Space & Science Center – Local: In Oaklandhttp://blog.sfgate.com/inoakland/2017/10/03/exploring-the-physics-of-pinball-at-the-chabot-space-science-center/Melissa Harmon, a co-curator for the Pacific Pinball Museum, stood in the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, smiling as she talked about teaching children using one of the world’s oldest…

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