{"id":634234,"date":"2010-01-18T14:07:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"1713 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-01-18T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:07:18","slug":"pacific-pinball-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/634234","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Pinball Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/california\/alameda-county\">Alameda County<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/california\">California<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/museums-and-collections\/unique-collections\">Unique Collections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once called Bagatelle, pinball descended from billiards and other table games of the mid-1700s. But pinball was first patented in 1871 by Montague Redgrave who added the spring-loaded plunger to start the game.<\/p>\n<p>During the Depression, pinball popularity boomed. A coin-operated version sold for $17.50, so saloons and drugstores quickly made back their investment on this table-top game. <\/p>\n<p>However, because of its association with gambling, pinball machines were banned in many large American cities, like New York and Los Angeles, in the 1940s. By the mid-70s the laws were overturned when a pinball-defender proved that pinball was a game of skill, not a game of luck.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Pinball Museum outside of Oakland offers over 90 &#8220;playable, historic pinball machines&#8221; with the signature lights, bells and whistles of the greatest models. Like most museums, the PPM owns a much larger collection &#8211; over 400 machines! &#8211; but only some are available for the public to see.<\/p>\n<p>From Oct. 1 &#8211; 3, 2010, the Pacific Pinball Museum will host the Pacific Pinball Exposition in collaboration with the Pinball Revival Company. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/3978702585_43e7bf3d11.jpg?resize=280%2C210\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alameda County, California | Unique Collections Once called Bagatelle, pinball descended from billiards and other table games of the mid-1700s. But pinball was first patented in 1871 by Montague Redgrave who added the spring-loaded plunger to start the game. During the Depression, pinball popularity boomed. A coin-operated version sold for $17.50, so saloons and drugstores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2EZA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}