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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brakel" data-source="post: 8526" data-attributes="member: 416">Before arcades sprang up in the midwest, my brother and I got our pinball fix at campgrounds. My parents had a pop up camping trailer and later a pick-up bed camper. Our family was not into the camping scene but we were into traveling. My parents both worked for the school district and we spent many winter, spring and summer breaks traveling the U.S. and staying in campgrounds. We stayed at KOAs mostly and almost all of the KOA campgrounds had a pinball table or two. You'd find them at other campgrounds but you could pretty much count on seeing one at a KOA. This was during the '70s. Later when arcades started springing up in the area some of the local stores started having video games and pinball machines in their stores. One old pharmacy in town had 2 video games and 4 pinball machines in the back. Unfortunately it was not to be enjoyed for long. Our village board passed an ordanance barring gaming arcades from the village. The ordinance limited stores to having 2 or fewer games. Some just removed them altogether and others removed the pinball and kept the more popular video games. An arcade did eventually open up just a few feet over the village line but they did not carry a single pinball game. My pinball days were over by the time I was in High School as my parents love of traveling faded as they grew older (I was the last of 6 kids). In college I found pinball machines much more accessable and started playing a lot more. Although there were no arcades near my school, the school itself had a half dozen machines scattered around campus in cafeteria lobbies, the Union and other social gathering spots. Also the town had plenty of bars with tables in them.I would bet that the village ban of arcades would have been unconstitutional but no one ever challenged it. Ah, so many games I could have played! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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