![]() ![]() “Financially, we shouldn’t have done this,” Arnold says, taking in his new digs. ![]() It’s taken Arnold, wife Charlotte and a cast of volunteers decades to get here.Īnd now they and their fellow “pinheads” of the world have their palace, built 25 cents at a time. Now he has just opened the doors on a massive, new $10 million complex across from the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign on Las Vegas Boulevard. “In your mind, everything that’s ever amused you is in there somewhere,” he observes, “but you’ve forgotten about it … until you see that machine.”įor 15 years, the Pinball Hall of Fame has been a portal to the past for tens of thousands of visitors annually, a maze of machines that take your money and give you something ephemeral and lasting at once: a good time in the moment that simultaneously conjures the glow of good times had in years gone by.Ī nonprofit organization, the hall also has donated millions to local charities.Īfter opening his first location in a run-down strip mall next to a discount movie theater on Tropicana Avenue in 2006, Arnold moved down the street to a larger spot three years later. “People will walk down a row of games and they’ll just stop dead. “We have what we call ‘nostalgia lockup,’ ” explains owner Tim Arnold, his wispy gray hair much longer than his patience for such modern distractions as cellphones, which he refuses to own. That happens sometimes at the Pinball Hall of Fame. Pac-Man or whatever quarter-gobbler it was that sucked the change from your pockets back in the day.Īnd then you just might freeze in your tracks. Cheese or that neighborhood bowling alley, wherever you first started feeding your allowance into Ms. Stroll through - you’ll see it, absorb it - get wormholed back to Chuck E. The voluminous, white-walled room isn’t even half full yet, and already it’s loaded with remembrance. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) feels like an airplane hangar of memories. The Pinball Hall of Fame will house around 700 games when fully stocked in the months and years to come. ![]()
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