Subj : Re: Favorite Retro Arcade
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : jimmylogan
Date : Fri Nov 08 2024 19:47:42

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 Ac> I've always wanted a pinball machine, but could never get myself to
 Ac> fork over thousands of dollars for one. :)

 ji> My family was NOT well off, so please don't think I'm saying we had
 ji> money. My dad was a trader - he would haul tires, buy tools wholesale
 ji> and sell to others, buy for the auctions, etc.

 ji> One day he brought home a pinball machine. My mother didn't like it,
 ji> but we put it in the living room. EVERY DAY after school that's the
 ji> first thing I would do. :-)

 pF>  My best friend's mom growing up was an antiques dealer. The whole
 pF>  culture ran on barter. She was wealthy and loaned money to friends,
 pF>  who'd pay her back in trade, which she would later barter.

 pF>  She had a killer '68 Camaro (blue with white racing stripes) for a
 pF>  couple of weeks, then traded it for an antique chinese armoire, which
 pF>  she then traded for vintage jewelry, and so on.

My dad traded in cars too. I remember a few of them. One was a little
Pontiac with a shifter in the floor. It's what I learned to drive
a stick shift in.

Another was either a Chevy or a Pontiac - had holes in it where some
light bars had been. Could tell there was a cage in front of the 
back seat at one point. The rear window cranks and handles were in
the floor board. Yep - was an unmarked police car! That thing would
scoot!!!



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