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Last update: 03-25-2007 |
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It would be neat to see a list of these machines
by name that showed how many of each of them were made. I am a bit embarrassed here; I am afraid that as I
captured these pictures over the years I didn’t label them very well and now
have no idea where most of them came from. If you do, please write to me - It
will be a shame if we lose this history.
I remember
that this photo was from Belgium ebay.
Part of Mark
Mentzer’s huge collection.
This photo
is one of a group of photos that all have the word “Holland” in the title.
Part of Mark
Mentzer’s huge collection.
This photo is
one of Vic Camp’s collection while it was downstairs.
This photo
is from Hugh Kown’s “Old Binger” website.
Not a big
set by any means, but I think I borrowed this photo from one of the Pinball
Shows back east.
Part of Mark
Mentzer’s huge collection.
Part of Mark
Mentzer’s huge collection.
A collection story about 62 Bingos: rec.games.pinball Duncan Brown Date: 1996/06/02 Well, Wombat and I did our
pinball-karmic good deed for the month today, and boy am I tired! There
was a fellow collector (non-net-connected) who just needed *help*. He'd
been acquiring and acquiring and acquiring, and had basically log jammed
himself into a position with space where he couldn't set anything up, much
less repair it or test it. He needed someone like us (young, foolish,
strong arms) to come in there and help him re-sort everything and start
making some order of it, assembling pins so they could be worked on, etc. How
can I describe his collection? Let me put it this way. My
basement is a sight to behold- pins everywhere, assembled and not, parts
everywhere, etc. But I've seen Rick Schieve's place and it puts my puny
little collection to shame. And I've seen Dann Frank's House of
Pinball, which makes Rick's place look small. This guy is in the next
league entirely. We moved *SIXTY TWO* bingo machine heads out of the upstairs
portion of his building (which is like the second story of a very nice horse
barn) and down into the downstairs side addition to the barn. (The
bingo machine bodies were off in another building entirely, thank goodness!)
Countless bingo playfields and miscellaneous parts too, of course.
We then played magic squares with the hole that opened up and assembled
16 pinball machines, leaving about 8 of them unassembled because we ran out
of time and energy. We didn't even get to the other third of this one
area, where there were probably another 30-40 pins disassembled. Or his
other warehouse nearby that has about 50 disassembled pins. And we spent
a good bit of effort shuffling around the various other gun games, shuffle
alleys/bowlers, jukeboxes, 45rpm records, etc. Did I mention that these
pins are all electromechanical? This was a trip back to my childhood to
see all these classic (and not so classic!) games again. Unlike the rest of
us, this guy seems to have no limit of time or money, so it's not like he's
even remotely considering selling any of this stuff. He's going to have
one hell of an impressive collection once this stuff is all properly repaired
and cleaned up and arranged. It was a little disappointing to spend all
of our efforts today assembling and not even trying to troubleshoot the
things....but we've given him the momentum he needed to get started, and I
expect he'll have a bunch of them running next time we visit. Paul is real
interested in learning how all this EM stuff works, and I'm real interested
to tune them up and PLAY them again after all these years. Even though my
hands are raw, my arms ache, my legs are wobbly, and there's dirt in all my
pores, I feel good about having helped a fellow pinhead in need. So no matter
how far behind you are in fixing up your own pins, take some time this week
to go help a nearby fellow collector, and sow some pinball karma... it inevitably
pays back somehow, and you'll be helping to keep these wonderful machines
alive! Duncan, obviously delirious and rambling after the hard labor... Mark Mentzer’s business and collection: Hi Dan! I'm finally getting around
to responding to you about my bingos for sale! My business is called Eastern
Coinop Amusements. The web page is at http://www.markbus.com
. The store is an 11,000 square
foot showroom located at 664 West Newport Road, Elm, PA 17521 Hours of
operation are Tuesday and Thursday 6 pm to 10 pm and Saturday 10 am to 3 pm.
Other hours by appointment. Phone: 717.371.7270. Here's my list
of bingos for sale- in many cases I have 6 or 8 of each title to pick
from. I sell lots of machines as is. I just don't have the time to work
on them all! Thanks/best regards, Mark
Mentzer, Ph.D. Although not
labeled and/or documented well, seeing so many bingos grouped together is
pretty cool! Danny Leach = leach1580@comcast.net
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