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RAB'S MOSTLY PHILOSOPHICAL PINBALL REPAIR JOURNAL - EPISODE # 9 - TRIPLE STRIKE
Boomers is just a nice way to say people whose productive lives are behind them, yet the memories endure and may well bring joy in the later phases of life. Read more...
RAB'S MOSTLY PHILOSOPHICAL PINBALL REPAIR JOURNAL - EPISODE # 8 - CIRCUS
Mark wants so much to join the Circus that we have inevitably become clowns to eachother. Read more...
RAB'S MOSTLY PHILOSOPHICAL PINBALL REPAIR JOURNAL - EPISODE # 7 - TOBY HENDERSON
High maintenance clients are more trouble than a barn find that needs to be shopped back to some sort of working order. Read more...
RAB'S MOSTLY PHILOSOPHICAL PINBALL REPAIR JOURNAL - EPISODE # 6 - HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS
RAB'S MOSTLY PHILOSOPHICAL PINBALL REPAIR JOURNAL - EPISODE # 5 - BLACK PYRAMID
A nightlight comes to life, I had no idea that this repair was going to make life better and enrich boyhood dreams. Read more...
RAB'S MOSTLY PHILOSOPHICAL PINBALL REPAIR JOURNAL - EPISODE # 4 - BANK-COIL
The repair task that evening was challenging, my mood was vile and Alan wanted to help. Three factors that could only result in a recipe producing sparks. Read more...
RAB'S MOSTLY PHILOSOPHICAL PINBALL REPAIR JOURNAL - EPISODE # 3 JUNGLE
There are few places where the English and the French live so closely, and in the best of scenarios, they may compliment each other's existence. Read more...
RAB'S MOSTLY PHILOSOPHICAL PINBALL REPAIR JOURNAL - EPISODE # 2 BLACK KNIGHT
A hurtin' little part of Montreal, and who would have known that behind a street level door......"Hark Captain, arrh ye maitees, - there be pinball machines here !!" Read more...
A SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN -EPISODE #1
The Last of the Old School Coin-Op Distributors of Montreal
From 1969 to 2022 Alouette Amusements has been situated at 8505 Chemin Delmeade in the Town of Mount Royal. This is a blog about the small pod that managed to escape from the closing of that location. Read more...
Bob's Your Uncle
There is no time. There is only existence and the absurd continuity of it all. As it engulfs all there ever was in order to carry us away and make room for more non sense. Read more...
Fire in my Dreams
Rickie don't lose my number
The Oxymoronic Think Tank
I thought that I was heading west towards a decline, but I couldn't be sure. But one thing I did know for certain was that I was heading east by going to old Montreal for a service call that evening. Read more...
The Renaissance of Home Service
Mario's 8 Ball Deluxe
Sunday mornings I would open Abe Kauffman`s CASINO ROYALE arcade on St.Catherine a few storefronts west of Bleury street for a 15 hour shift of pushing quarters. Read more...
A Prankster in Service
We sometimes say that "a picture is worth a thousand words", well maybe that a picture accompanied by a few hundred words can be even more informative. The right words with an image as a reference will often provide more insight into a context than one or the other alone. Read more...
North of the 49th parallel
I bought my first pin game in 1978 at the ripe old age of 13. It was a Williams Liberty Bell from Toronto Coin Machine for 650 Canadian dollars. One of the first things a 13 year old first time pinball owner does is search every square inch of the machine from top to bottom simply out of curiosity and of course fascination. Read more...
Montreal's Silver Marble Games
The outlook for the week-end was positive. It started taking shape on Thursday afternoon during a particularly productive day at my “square job” in what is left of the Canadian coin operated amusement machine industry. Read more...
Bally Hoo ? Again in '69 ?
It was cold yet sunny this morning in Montreal, and after a day away from work yesterday, I was looking forward to a new day on the road doing pinball repairs - i.e. my work on my terms. Read more...
Bally 1940 Triumph Table?
Heartburn, damn heartburn. I hope somebody got this pinball table and saved it, save the table from its' fate. I certainly couldn`t bear to use it as what it was proposed to me as. Read more...
THE 50 PLUS CLUB
Sometimes I feel like I am 27, but lately I been feeling closer to 67. So when I am lucky enough to feel my real age, (51) I make the fierce resolution to live that properly. Read more...
Working, Playing and Letting Go
After work today I headed off to Mountain Sights road, off Jean-Talon just east of Decaire. There, adjacent to the Montreal SPCA lay my next service call, near car washes, cell phone providers, body shops and clothing liquidation depots. I have been to some odd places in my time to fix pinballs and so I am pretty comfortable with all sorts of off the wall situations, but this one still managed to take a chunk out of the service call cake. Read more...
1 of 11,400 Space Invaders Retained in an East End Loft
I get two messages on my business line, about 5 minutes apart from the same guy inquiring about a pinball repair he wants done. My policy is to try and call everyone back as soon as I can, when they sound serious, so I did. Read more...
Bells and Whistles
What becomes difficult when one is busy is finding the time to look at the details that make up the bigger picture. If you enjoy details, pictures and stories as much as I do, then you are usually willing to sacrifice a bit more sleep to pursue the ever changing truth. Read more...
Larry and his Bingos
I learned a long time ago that in line bingo machine players are a special breed. They are sharp, calculating, and you won`t easily convince them of something that they already have an opinion about. Read more...
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