I spent the last weekend in Chicago, USA, For the 40th anniversary of pinball expo.
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| Pinball Expo 8am Wednesday morning |
I was there to help my friends Cliff & Colleen of Tap91 Gameroom run the pre-war pinball booth. This was a lot of hard work, and 14-hour days, but it was all pinball and it made me very happy. We also teamed up with Jeff of HistoryOfPinball.org and Bryan.
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| booth layout plan |
We ran a prewar-only tournament on Friday and Saturday, as well gave out medals for people that could meet difficult challenges that were placed on some of the machines.
The prewar booth received the award for first place booth at Expo.
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Making friends
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| high-voltage! |
On Thursday I was on the panel "Collecting Pinball Machines from the Birth of Pinball to the 1930s". My talk is the first 20 minutes of this video:
Note: I have edited this post to include the transcript of my speech. Scroll down to the very bottom for the full text.
I have made an amendment to the section about toupie hollandaise. My suggestion in regards to the bell sometimes beneath a table was sloppy.
