The other night, I had this really weird dream.
You see, I have always been fascinated by coin-op equipment from my youth.
You know… Arcade Games, Pinball machines, Gumball machines, Slot machines, all the fun stuff. I even collected for a while and still have a couple Pins, Arcade Uprights and several Gumball machines.
Well, this dream was pretty realistic. I was out Geocaching when I stumbled upon this amazing arcade museum where every possible Coin-Op device could be found! It was awesome!
I started off by dumping some change into a really cool 10 Stars Zaccaria Pinball game from 1975. That was fun! Those old Electro Mechanical pins always had that cool sound you can only get from the chime bars. After that, I wandered over to an older section where a few coins into an old Seeburg 100A let me queue up some Benny Goodman classics before heading over to another old EM pin, A Williams Beat Time from 1967! Needless to say, I dropped quite a few coins in that one.
I really had fun playing those old pins! But I still had a pocket full of change and wanted to see how my luck would be so I wandered over to the casino wing and sat down at a Pace 1928 Front O.K. A One-Armed Bandit which promptly lightened my coin collection… Ok, enough of THAT! Time for some more music.
So I walked back over to the Jukes and found this really cool 1941 Wurlitzer 120. This time, I couldn’t pick a song because I really didn’t recognize a lot of the music from that era and decided that since I lost so much on that Pace, I would call it good and head on out to do some more Geocaching.
On my way to the door however, I couldn’t help dropping a couple pennies in a classic 1929 Bell Hop for some old-school gumballs.
Yes sir! An odd dream at the least but now I know where that geocache is located.
You can play away your coins with certitude.