42 yrs ago my 1st mention in Coin Slot

[69er]

how time flies and prices inflate see our advert centre of April 1981 pinballs from £10
woody bfm fruits £10 and apart from a Ding Dong 60s pinball don't think we sold any others ? from that ad?
SYSTEM ONE TWO THREE FOUR cheapies .... i think we had most of these except FIVE as we soon had a couple ATARI Asteroids
SOME OF THE FIRST COPY GENERIC BLACK ASH SUPER HEAVY very square impossible to grab at the base to carry
i came across a massive cash box for one a while back probably in its day held about £400+ in big 10p s never filled them?

a few months later i got mentioned in the Grape Vine gossip page at Decemeber 1981 under the shop picture on right..

 

[69er]

first time i used the new platform ukvac for inserting a picture wasn't sure if i needed reduce size as it was before

oh.... if only we had stored some of these old machines they would be worth a mint these days maybe? just found these rip out pages
in an old box in the workshop ... the junk we did keep and the treasure we threw away doesnt bear thinking about ........

 

[jerryspaghetti]

How strange to see this. I was a baby living about 500m away from that Dutchford Distributor. Random

 

[muddymusic]

Pintables from ten quid. F*ck me

 

[69er]

yep Olly .. we always offered stuff at a bargain price ....... still do sometimes ...it wasn't unusual for small operators to dump things in Coin Slot classified cheap or Exchange & Mart was a weekly ads paper with a coin op section near the back .....now we depend on forums or EBAY of course . Just found a couple of Centipede bits to go .and a guy last week got a Asteroids marquee here for £20 when he picked up a 60's Cross Town back glass for just £30 ,,,such items 40-60 years old and been in our possession almost all that time in some cases....

i recall one of those pins was a D Gottlieb ... 1963 * Gigi * and working we ended up putting it in Prestatyn Youth club and it made just over £11 the following week and it was there till it 'died' i think about 4 months later

BUT ........... the back glass LIVES ON we see it every day in our stairway overhead as we come down each morning as it soon got framed and
i am sure i still have the back box stashed somewhere but the bed playfield was trashed when the glass (quite unusually back then) got broken and the kids smashed a few plastics ,, the glass was 1/4 plate so did often crack across a corner or worse , the zone toughened ones in the mid 70s lasted better..

nice little picture for the readers we have a couple of framed 60s back glasses hung World Fair , Bazaar and as you see here a rare Taito Jap Space Invaders..........................

 

[_Matt_]

That's Brilliant, thanks for sharing.

 

[qjuk]

I remember having a 4 digit telephone telephone number too

Thanks for sharing. Any chance you could do a close-up scan or photo of the The Grape Vine article? I’d be interested in reading it.