So I like to watch certain reality TV, the kind with craftsmen plying their trade. There are the guys who forge knives and swords from raw steel. There are the guys who build motorcycles and cars. And there is American Restoration. In this show Rick restores various things. Some 100 year old pedal car toy or maybe a barber chair, Maybe a gum vending machine or a barber hot towel machine. They take the item, and sand blast it down to bare metal. They recreate all artwork on it, and make all innards work. It comes out looking like new. The business is in Las Vegas.
Recently I watched episodes wherein they restored a boxing punching bag arcade machine, and one about an arm wrestling machine, another arcade game.
I spent many years involved in the coin operated amusements industry. I worked for some local operators, and also as an independent business. One local operator was Pinball Petes. That was the Arnold brothers, they had a large arcade in downtown East Lansing. Tim, Tom, and Ted. They did VERY well, they all bought matching Ferraris. They had other arcade operations around the region. They often used my company to do certain technical work. I have known them from the beginning.
Eventually, Tim sold out to his brothers and moved to Las Vegas, where he founded the Pinball Hall of Fame. he collected every pinball machine model ever made. pretty thorough. Tim is a nerdy sort of guy who knows the ins and outs of arcade games.
On these craftsman shows, there are often local experts called in for advice or help. In the case of American Restoration, Rick occasionally calls in Tim to advise on restoration of an old arcade game. SO today Tim came along to overhaul the punching bag game, and the arm wrestling game.
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So I am watching, and the wife walks by, I says, "Hey look honey, it's Tim from Pinball Pete's."
She didn't care...