Re: $39 bucks for two stickers- WTF

americannleaguer@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I agree with you. When I was a teen in the mid '70's, I started
repairing EM machines in people's homes in the Detroit area. The only
people I knew who owned pins were, for the most part, Doctors and
Lawyers in mansions and mini mansions.in suburban Detroit. Heck, at
first my parents had to drive me to service calls and waited in the
car!!!! Then I got a driver's license and the rest is history.

Your story is whom I was thinking of when I posted my reply - I think someone did the inflation calculator thing and pinball machines are actually cheaper now than they used to be - which makes sense, a new machine today is about 1/4 of the average car, and in 1979 it was almost the same price.

Of course in 1979 machines were earning a lot better.

It's all relative anyway - you can still play the machine just fine with a faded (?not sure why they all need to be replaced.....) decal.....

-scott CARGPB#29
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