Pacific Pinball Museum
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| place | Alameda (California) , USA |
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| opening | 2004 |
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Michael Schiess
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The Pacific Pinball Museum is a museum that shows the history of pinball machines since 1879. The museum is located in Alameda , California .
history
The museum was founded in 2004 by Michael Schiess, a former exhibition designer for museums. Schiess began collecting pinball machines in 2001.
He decided to open his own museum after the depiction of the history of pinball machines in other museums did not convince him. One of his first major acquisitions consisted of thirty-six machines. Fourteen of them were installed in a rented room in Alameda, the "Lucky Ju Ju". The first donations were collected using a can in the exhibition. In 2004 the facility expanded and became a non-profit organization that was renamed the Pacific Pinball Museum. The museum expanded again in 2009 and showed forty woodrail and wedgehead pinball machines from Larry Zartarian's collection. In addition to Schiess and the museum's board of directors, the museum now has two employees.
collection
The museum's exhibition includes around ninety pinball machines, showing models from 1879 to the present day in chronological order. The Schiess collection consists of a total of 800 machines. The non-exhibited specimens are serviced in a secret 8,000 square feet (743 m²) area. The entrance fee includes free use of all the machines shown in the exhibition. The oldest pinball machine from 1879 is a Montague Redgrave Parlor Bagatelle. Contemporary examples include The Addams Family and Twilight Zone pinball machines. The museum also has a transparent pinball machine from 1976 built by Schiess and Wade Krause and based on Gottlieb's "Surf Champ" . One of the most valuable pieces in the collection is the so-called Bally Bumper from the 1930s, built in Art Deco style. This vending machine was confiscated by the Oakland Police during Prohibition . The museum's collection was also exhibited at San Francisco International Airport .
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Andy Wright: Pacific Pinball Museum . In: New York Times , July 16, 2011. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Laura Khalil: Pacific Pinball Museum Scores High Marks . In: Quest . KQED. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ SF Bay Area's Pacific Pinball Museum , July 19, 2011 by David Pescovitz, BoingBoing
- ↑ a b c Eric J. Kos: Pacific Pinball Museum Opens . In: Alameda Sun , November 19, 2009. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ↑ Dave Santi: PACIFIC PINBALL MUSEUM . Pinball News. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- ^ Northern California . AAA Publishing, Heathrow, Florida 2012, p. 43.
Coordinates: 37 ° 46 ′ 25 ″ N , 122 ° 16 ′ 36 ″ W.