Introduction and a couple of questions.

[Sigrah]

Hello All! I just recently joined the forum and am extremely excited about reading all the informative posts and getting started with this cool hobby!!

The first Pachinko game I saw and played was back in the early 70's at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. We always got to go to the "rides" on Friday night, but one year something unexpected had been opened. We walked into this building to check it out and there were several rows of some game called "Pachinko" My mother, sister and I were mesmerized. It was only there that one summer, but I remember you could use the balls you won to trade for stuffed toys and the like. Ever since then I have wanted to get a Pachinko machine and now because of this site I should be able to gain the knowledge to restore one of these "futuristic" games. Well, they seemed that way to me when I was 10 years old!!

So, my questions...does anybody remember other such "parlors" opening up in the US back in this time?

Also, I have found 3 vintage machines within about a 2 hour drive on CL and didn't know if any of these would be a good first machine to start this journey with. I'll try and post some pics of the machines I found.

Thanks for listening.

Ron