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ALAMEDA, CALIF.–It’s easy to drop $10 or $20 in an arcade within a few short minutes. How would like to play unlimited games on 85+ vintage pinball machines (that actually work) for a flat fee of $15? Add to that a museum tour offered by pinball docents who know their stuff and you’re in for the time of your life!\u00a0There’s a little bit of pinball heaven in Alameda where a unique, one-of-a-kind \u00a0Pacific Pinball Museum<\/strong><\/a> features Charlie’s Angels, solid state Dolly Parton, Addams Family in dot matrix, Dr. Dude, Buckaroo, CSI, Fireball, Flash, Grand Slam and Hurricane, just a few of the pinball machines that will make you feel like a kid again. If you have kids it’s never too late to introduce them to pre-21st technology where you don’t have to blow someone’s head off or obliterate them with your laser gun to have fun. Oddly enough, there was a time when pinball was considered risqu\u00e9 and leading to youth decay. Better Homes and Gardens magazine launched a campaign in 1957 to outlaw children’s access to pinball.\u00a0You’ll learn this and more when your visit to the Bay Area includes a stop in Alameda at the Pacific Pinball Museum.<\/p>\n On\u00a0March 9, 2014 \u00a0see Dan Miller, collector of historic pinball machines:<\/strong> The City of Alameda offered Pacific Pinball Museum the fantastic (1902) Carnegie Library building. They’ve launched a campaign to raise the needed $3.2 million within the next two years. Help them create the “Smithsonian of Pinball!<\/span>” \u00a0pacificpinball.org<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ALAMEDA, CALIF.–It’s easy to drop $10 or $20 in an arcade within a few short minutes. How would like to play unlimited games on 85+ vintage pinball machines (that actually work) for a flat fee of $15? Add to that a museum tour offered by pinball docents who know their stuff and you’re in for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1-1:45pm Pinball History TOUR
\n2- 2:45pm CLASS: What you need to know about buying and owning a pinball machine
\n3- 3:45pm Pinball History TOUR<\/p>\n