MY Road Story.....
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I can't even remember how many times I emptied out trying to get that last extra ball.....geezus, thanks for the memories.....
An embrassing moment
That last extra ball could be excruciating. That's why I would opt for trying to knock the 19-25 out of their hold and into the return hole. I could only lose the use of my hands. LOL. My palms did form some black dots in them and sometimes but not often they would hurt enough that I would lay off of them for a week or so.
Sometimes, I would just walk up to a machine that the game was already over and if it looked like one of the numbers was 19-25, preferably 23-25 and there was a decent sum to be won, I would take a chance at knocking the doo-dads out of the machine trying to dislodge a set ball and receive a "Joey" ball. If it looked like the machine didn't have any decent odds on the machine from the previous game, I would give it two or three good whacks just to measure the tilt. God, it was fun.
Here's a story I don't think I told but I'm getting old. I come back to New Orleans and go to this pool hall on airline highway in 1980 or 81 and they don't know me because I've been away for several years and this wasn't my regular haunt but I go up to the bar and get $2.00 of nickels and start playing. I see that the machine is kind of tight but I think I can eke out a profit so after I donate that $2.00 I go and get another, lose that and go get another $2. I put in the last few nickels and hit 300 games which is $15 profit. I walk back up to the bar and tell the bar tender that I've got 300 games I want to cash in and he says, "Didn't you read the sign, FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY"? I look at him rather blankly and say that I've been playing these machines for years, just moved back in town, yada-yada-yada. Nothing works. He tell me you can go turn the switch off underneath but he isn't going to pay me off. I ask him why he didn't say something to me when I was putting my money in the machines and he just looked at me like I was dumb. So I grimace, walk back over to the machine, press off each game so that he wouldn't get paid for them. If you clicked the switch under the machine it would take of the game rapidly and the operator would come in and pay the bar for the loss. So I just played off each game tilting the machine every so often when I got down to zero, I was so mad I couldn't stand it and I closed my fist and slammed my right palm into the middle of the glass and glass went flying everywhere. I figured that glass was worth about $15 and I would at least get that satisfaction, that is until I look down at my palm and saw the blood pouring out of the laceration. They gave me a towel and I left bleeding like a stuck pig. Maybe I ought to post this one on the thread for the most embarassing thing you ever did. VBG.
AZers were talking about pool being addictive? Those pinballs could grab you by the gonads and never let go.
JoeyA
cheesemouse said:I can't even remember how many times I emptied out trying to get that last extra ball.....geezus, thanks for the memories.....
That last extra ball could be excruciating. That's why I would opt for trying to knock the 19-25 out of their hold and into the return hole. I could only lose the use of my hands. LOL. My palms did form some black dots in them and sometimes but not often they would hurt enough that I would lay off of them for a week or so.
Sometimes, I would just walk up to a machine that the game was already over and if it looked like one of the numbers was 19-25, preferably 23-25 and there was a decent sum to be won, I would take a chance at knocking the doo-dads out of the machine trying to dislodge a set ball and receive a "Joey" ball. If it looked like the machine didn't have any decent odds on the machine from the previous game, I would give it two or three good whacks just to measure the tilt. God, it was fun.
Here's a story I don't think I told but I'm getting old. I come back to New Orleans and go to this pool hall on airline highway in 1980 or 81 and they don't know me because I've been away for several years and this wasn't my regular haunt but I go up to the bar and get $2.00 of nickels and start playing. I see that the machine is kind of tight but I think I can eke out a profit so after I donate that $2.00 I go and get another, lose that and go get another $2. I put in the last few nickels and hit 300 games which is $15 profit. I walk back up to the bar and tell the bar tender that I've got 300 games I want to cash in and he says, "Didn't you read the sign, FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY"? I look at him rather blankly and say that I've been playing these machines for years, just moved back in town, yada-yada-yada. Nothing works. He tell me you can go turn the switch off underneath but he isn't going to pay me off. I ask him why he didn't say something to me when I was putting my money in the machines and he just looked at me like I was dumb. So I grimace, walk back over to the machine, press off each game so that he wouldn't get paid for them. If you clicked the switch under the machine it would take of the game rapidly and the operator would come in and pay the bar for the loss. So I just played off each game tilting the machine every so often when I got down to zero, I was so mad I couldn't stand it and I closed my fist and slammed my right palm into the middle of the glass and glass went flying everywhere. I figured that glass was worth about $15 and I would at least get that satisfaction, that is until I look down at my palm and saw the blood pouring out of the laceration. They gave me a towel and I left bleeding like a stuck pig. Maybe I ought to post this one on the thread for the most embarassing thing you ever did. VBG.
AZers were talking about pool being addictive? Those pinballs could grab you by the gonads and never let go.
JoeyA
I Want An Old Pinball For My House
I had the same thing happen at Pete's Bar just off Carrollton Ave. and I drove a beer bottle through the glass. When I was in highschool, I was playing at a 'sweetshop' just off Carrollton & Tulane Ave. and had amassed 600 games (a good score for a kid) when all the electric in the place flashed off & on in a split second. I stood there dumbfounded while all my games clicked away one at a time right before my eyes. I ran up to the counter yelling about how many games I had and the woman that owned the joint just shrugged her shoulders...... dammit
I guess that she (or someone) flipped the breaker switch on purpose.
Joey
(the trick to knocking those balls out was to squat down low and hit upwards with a quick motion...jarring the ball,but NOT the tilt)
JoeyA said:
I had the same thing happen at Pete's Bar just off Carrollton Ave. and I drove a beer bottle through the glass. When I was in highschool, I was playing at a 'sweetshop' just off Carrollton & Tulane Ave. and had amassed 600 games (a good score for a kid) when all the electric in the place flashed off & on in a split second. I stood there dumbfounded while all my games clicked away one at a time right before my eyes. I ran up to the counter yelling about how many games I had and the woman that owned the joint just shrugged her shoulders...... dammit
I guess that she (or someone) flipped the breaker switch on purpose.
Joey
(the trick to knocking those balls out was to squat down low and hit upwards with a quick motion...jarring the ball,but NOT the tilt)
Smorgass Bored said:
You could stop those games from being clicked off by turning the switch under the machine to the off position. That would just freeze the games to whatever number they were on. I would also guess that those 600 games were paid for and that they were recorded. I guess you never got the 30 bucks? So you're not supposed to try and put your hand through the top of the glass to move those balls around. Yeah, OK I'll remember that next time.
JoeyA
Bingoholics are everywhere.
Smorgass Bored said:I had the same thing happen at Pete's Bar just off Carrollton Ave. and I drove a beer bottle through the glass.
http://www.oldbinger.com/gallery.htm
Here's another: http://danny.cdyn.com/Bingo Pinballs22.htm
This guy has a nice collection of gambling pinball machines. They have a forum there too and you can hear the addiction still runs strong. God I wish they were here in Louisiana. I talked to some others here in town that used to play them and even the ones who lost more than they won (that was most people) said they loved to play them.
joeyA
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Some law was passed in SC making the machines legal if they had flippers. So they stick these two little flippers on the bingo type pinballs. I really could hardly believe it. People reaching arround and trying to flip the ball over to the other side. They were on the fourth row. Some people have a partner that sits there and tries to flip it. These machines tell you how much an extra ball is going to cost too, in advance so you can decide if its worth it or not.
They keep making new laws and then coming out with all kinds of different animal machines to skirt the laws. One big thing in Ga. now is underground joints in nice houses that run 20 or so poker machines. People lose their ass and then inform on the place just out of spite so you really have to be in with the local sheriff or you won't last long.
An operator told me that the main trouble with the pinball and amusement type flipper machines was that they gave trouble too much. I knew exactly what he meant. I worked at an Amoco station with just four pinballs and we were constantly calling in trouble several times a day many times. Much later I'm running my own mini casino with 25 poker and blackjack games and I may go three weeks without calling in trouble on any of them. The old electro mechanical type animal and pinball always were giving trouble and plenty of it. Plus you had to know what you were doing to fix them. I knew this old fellow who got wealthy traveling arround giving a three week, forty hrs. a week, school on how to repair the old pinball games. After the course you knew just a little more than when you started. It took experience........
They keep making new laws and then coming out with all kinds of different animal machines to skirt the laws. One big thing in Ga. now is underground joints in nice houses that run 20 or so poker machines. People lose their ass and then inform on the place just out of spite so you really have to be in with the local sheriff or you won't last long.
An operator told me that the main trouble with the pinball and amusement type flipper machines was that they gave trouble too much. I knew exactly what he meant. I worked at an Amoco station with just four pinballs and we were constantly calling in trouble several times a day many times. Much later I'm running my own mini casino with 25 poker and blackjack games and I may go three weeks without calling in trouble on any of them. The old electro mechanical type animal and pinball always were giving trouble and plenty of it. Plus you had to know what you were doing to fix them. I knew this old fellow who got wealthy traveling arround giving a three week, forty hrs. a week, school on how to repair the old pinball games. After the course you knew just a little more than when you started. It took experience........
Won't Barbara Be Surprised
JoeyA posted:
http://www.oldbinger.com/gallery.htm
Here's another: http://danny.cdyn.com/Bingo Pinballs22.htm
Yeehaaaaaaaa, I got a boner.
Doug
( proud as a peacock )
JoeyA posted:
http://www.oldbinger.com/gallery.htm
Here's another: http://danny.cdyn.com/Bingo Pinballs22.htm
Yeehaaaaaaaa, I got a boner.
Doug
( proud as a peacock )
Those pics sure bring back some memories!
I just loved the Double-Up, and the Bonus 7 machines. They were always my favorites. I'm going back to Tennessee in a couple months, I'm going to check and see if they are still around.
When you get the odds all jacked up...lights after the 5th ball. and all, It would absolutely mesmerize me. Almost going into a trance, while playing.
Those were some good days.....
Rick S.
I just loved the Double-Up, and the Bonus 7 machines. They were always my favorites. I'm going back to Tennessee in a couple months, I'm going to check and see if they are still around.
When you get the odds all jacked up...lights after the 5th ball. and all, It would absolutely mesmerize me. Almost going into a trance, while playing.
Those were some good days.....
Rick S.
JoeyA said:Smorgass Bored said:I had the same thing happen at Pete's Bar just off Carrollton Ave. and I drove a beer bottle through the glass.
http://www.oldbinger.com/gallery.htm
Here's another: http://danny.cdyn.com/Bingo Pinballs22.htm
This guy has a nice collection of gambling pinball machines. They have a forum there too and you can hear the addiction still runs strong. God I wish they were here in Louisiana. I talked to some others here in town that used to play them and even the ones who lost more than they won (that was most people) said they loved to play them.
joeyA
I didn't get a boner like, Smorg, but I did have heart palpitations. I never realized how much I missed those things. Thanks a ton for posting the photos, Joey.
Woops! I posted on the wrong thread. Sorry about that=)
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Sheesh
cdavis9771: Deleted his OT post.
LOL...Thanks
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Are you sure you're in the right thread ? This is pinball.
Doug
( I read it twice looking for the pinball link )
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cdavis9771: Deleted his OT post.
LOL...Thanks
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Are you sure you're in the right thread ? This is pinball.
Doug
( I read it twice looking for the pinball link )
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Laguna Beach
hemicudas said:JoeyA said:
Bill, I remember an ultimate high playing pinball. As I recall, I found a machine which had the odds run all the way over to 192 and the yellow was double. I believe there was a feature for a "red letter" game where you could get two or three numbers in a particular format. The numbers were like 1, 16, 14, 15, maybe 17 or a few others and it may have not been called that. The machine would light up two in XXXX or three in XXXX and if you made those required numbers, you could get a NEW game based upon where the red numbers were and if you had 120 or 192 in red and you hit this feature, it doubled the yellow and red odds. Well one day I am looking at a machine that had 192 in red and it had three in XXXX lit but only two balls filled the required three holes. No one was around so, I knocked the 23 out of the hole and into the ball return and then shot that ball to get the third required "red letter game" or whatever it was called. Someone help me out. I don't remember what the feature was but when you pressed the R button of the right top of the machine you had to hold it down and when it started clicking and popping, it sounded like fireworks going off. You blood would start to sizzle as the odds went FAR to the right and then when the yellow would double up, you would start to salivate and if the rollover went to AFTER the fourth ball you could almost guarantee a win. If you hit the red rollover you could move the screens around even after the fifth ball was played as I recall. Anyway, I hit double yellow four in a line for 960 games. I thought I died and went to heaven as scores like that were not the norm. No money invested. and I win almost $50. IN the late 60's that was a score!
I have been sharing some of these memories with an older guy named George who had a large route of pinball machiens here in Louisiana at Buffalo Billiards. He knew a few guys that could beat the machines pretty consistently but they always changed the odds around or made it tilt easier or whatever it took to keep the "razors" from stealing "his" money. VBG. He said he became wealthy because of those pinball machines and the revenue produced by juke boxes and cigarette machines. Mr. George named off a dozen guys that had worked for him, including Eddie Brown.
Anyway it was a nice walk down memory lane. If you want to purchase a T Shirt with the full color screen of one of your favorite machines you can go to:
http://www.cafepress.com/ballybingo
If I see one of you wearing one of those t-shirts I will have to strike up a conversation with ya.
Take Care,
JoeyA
I think it must have been the Laguna Beach Pinball that was my favorite, looking at some of the pictures.
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