Its all good, and I will say that I am very appreciative of Clay in particular, when I bought my first pinball (EM) I knew jack squat, and the primary source of my learning was from his videos and his incredible web pages. Sharing all of that knowledge meant the world to me. Clay if I ever get to meet you I would like to shake your hand and personally thank you for all of that. I studied all of that (and still do) and then took it and went through my EMs inside and out until I finally understand how they worked and how to maintain and repair them.

As far as PHOF, all I can say is that its all I can do to keep these 3 mf-ers in good working condition, it seems like every time I have a small handful of people over one or two will go down in a matter of minutes, despite the fact I played them for hours prior and they worked great! I can't even begin to imagine keeping hundreds of the damn things going when any random person from the public can walk in 12 hours a day and start pounding on them.

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I always enjoyed this post from Tim Arnold in one of the many other Pinside threads about this same topic.

I would like to remind everyone that the ONLY reason we can devote a large amount of our expensive floor space to QUARTER EM GAMES is because the merch and toys pull the weight of the money losing EM's. A compromise, sure! But one that taxes the STUPID (crane players) and rewards the SMART. (value menu EM players)

In the past there was a pretty good row of well maintained pinball machines at New York New York. There was also a pretty good pinball arcade that was running in the downtown area. I believe those are now gone, didn’t make it.

Just beat me to the punch

Housing is reasonable here, and the property taxes and income taxes are low.

But in the summertime you'll be like

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What the...??? Haven't seen it?? Is it any good?? Come on man, it's an all time classic. It's a bit difficult to categorize. Sure it's some kind of drama, but its also funnier than shit. Michael Douglas is great and nails it. Watch it !! The hamburger joint scene alone is worth it.

I was curious about this and couldn't find any specific details about what the typical cost would be to pay someone like you to regularly come in and clean/service/maintain the restrooms. Given the pics of the size of the PHOF, what would be a typical price range to pay someone else to come in (daily?) and keep it all clean and operational?

Of course I understand if you don't want to disclose that information, its part of the business. That's why when you search out companies that do this you don't see pricing, you have to contact them to get it. Also, I get that it will vary depending on size of the restrooms, the traffic, and such variables.

Whatever it might be, I'm guessing it will be viewed in relation to the amount of quarters it takes up every day, and cast aside because of that.

I happened to be at a sports bar just yesterday for a beer and some snacks ,and when I went in the men's room it was nice to see that it was in fact very clean and tidy. A solid 8 or 9 out of 10. It definitely gives you confidence in patronizing the restaurant when you see this, versus a mess in there.

That’s what I was thinking. It’s sorta like those guys not long ago that stole 2 million dimes from the armored truck. It’s a nice haul, but as far as actually being able to spend it there would seem to be a logistics problem there.

Just a note on two I enjoyed playing last time I was there a few years ago. The Firepower with the drop target mod, and the Canada Dry which I thought was pretty cool looking.

It may seem odd, but the idea that the urinals are not working bothers me more than all of the pinball machines not working.

I guess it's because I would expect that you could pay for brand new urinals, and they should be able to work. And if not, should be able to be somewhat easily fixed. A bunch of old pinball machines? Well, heck yeah that shit's gonna break down. And sometimes it's not so easy to get them going again.

Search this thread for posts by member cfh, Clay posted a lot of interesting info about that and other things also.

Now, who’s old enough to remember this classic?

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I don’t think Banning was anything like that, just the opposite probably. From what I read, volunteers would go there in teams and enjoyed doing it. Maybe they got free pizza? I never volunteered, but I went there lots of times to the open events, and every time I hadan absolute blast. I played pinball until by eyes bled and my brain fried. I was lucky to be able to play so many different ones from many eras. ( no wood rails there though).

Were there broken down machines out of the 500 or so that were there? Sure. Sometimes a number of them. But there were more than enough working ones to enjoy. The whole place was neat as a pin. Just pinball machines, front and back and side to side.

Of course Banning was a totally different operation. Closed to the public almost all the time. Events were paid admission and everything on free play, no quarters and all that. I probably went around a dozen times, but I wish I had gone more often. I took it for granted I could pop over there several times a year. Then poof it was gone.

Refer to this quote from Tim earlier in this thread:

I would like to remind everyone that the ONLY reason we can devote a large amount of our expensive floor space to QUARTER EM GAMES is because the merch and toys pull the weight of the money losing EM's. A compromise, sure! But one that taxes the STUPID (crane players) and rewards the SMART. (value menu EM players)

Does the Moldarama get a lot of action? Last time we were there we got the Donald Duck from it. I ended up selling it on eBay and got my money back

What’s great about this thread is that it is now over 2000 posts. But you could go back through them all and take a selection of about 5 different ones that say everything that keeps getting repeated over and over. 2000 times