Within this digital city we call Seattle, more and more people are turning to analog entertainment, at least when it comes to pinball. Pinball, however, hasn't always been as accessible as it is today.Pinball was banned in New York City beginning in the early 1940's because it was seen as a game of chance. The machines were destroyed and dumped into the city's rivers. The ban ended however, when Roger Sharpe, a star witness for the Amusement and Music Operators Association testified in April, 1976, that pinball games had become games of skill and were not games of chance.
"Part of my testimony was also to demonstrate that the games were based on skill and wound up playing before the city council members. Without any vanity at all then Mayor Abraham Beame signed a legislation on my birthday of that year, August 1st, to legalize pinball," says Sharpe.
Which brings us to today and the Seattle Pinball Museum.
"One of the things we'd like to do with the Seattle Pinball Museum is promote it to families and let them know that this is part of American culture and it's not as it's always been perceived: something relegated to backrooms of speakeasy's, bars and pool halls," says Charlie Martin, one of the co-owner's of the museum.
Over the last three years, Charlie and his wife Cindy have made it their passion to provide the public with pinball.
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"Part of my testimony was also to demonstrate that the games were based on skill and wound up playing before the city council members. Without any vanity at all then Mayor Abraham Beame signed a legislation on my birthday of that year, August 1st, to legalize pinball," says Sharpe.
Which brings us to today and the Seattle Pinball Museum.
"One of the things we'd like to do with the Seattle Pinball Museum is promote it to families and let them know that this is part of American culture and it's not as it's always been perceived: something relegated to backrooms of speakeasy's, bars and pool halls," says Charlie Martin, one of the co-owner's of the museum.
Over the last three years, Charlie and his wife Cindy have made it their passion to provide the public with pinball.
Read more via mynorthwest.com
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