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The problem is, the City of Alameda doesn’t seem to give a damn. He pictures it becoming a recreational destination that draws people to the city the way Neptune Beach, the legendary beachfront amusement park, did in the early-1900s. Specifically, Schiess has his eye on creating a 40,000- to 50,000-square-foot “Smithsonian of pinball museums” in a long-vacant warehouse on Alameda Point. Seven hundred pinball machines are stored in a warehouse in Alameda because the museum doesn’t have room to display them.The Pacific Pinball Museum relies on volunteers like Christopher Nash, aka “The Pinball Doctor,” who travels to Alameda twice a year from his home in Portland, Oregon, to help repair and restore the museum’s collection.

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Pinball Mac still holds private pinball parties in his basement in Berkeley, but he thinks the game’s money-making days are over.

Pinball art, such as this back glass, reflected the times.

Michael Schiess wants to expand his Pacific Pinball Museum, but so far he can’t find a home for it.

But he believes that the preservation of the collection depends on the museum expanding into a bigger and more permanent space. There are seven decades’ worth of playable pinball machines in his 4,000-square-foot museum, the first to publicly curate the games as artifacts of American art, science, and pop culture. See you later!”Īs a result of his dogged perseverance, Schiess now manages the largest collection of rare pinball machines in the world. When doctors recently informed him that his arthritic hip may need to be replaced - meaning he could never lift a pinball machine again - the 56-year-old electric mechanic responded, “No, thanks. A year and a half after starting his Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, he has never taken home a salary higher than $1,600 a month, so he and his wife make ends meet by renting out the bottom half of their house. He has driven across the country to collect them. Since he was thirteen years old, Michael Schiess has been obsessed with pinball machines.

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