Two Additions

After a particularly acquisitive weekend, we have two new entries to our pinball family. We drove to Battle Creek on Saturday to pick up our first woodrail, a 1956 Hot Diggity. This one's a beauty, and the playfield, while very dirty, looks in reasonable good condition, a great candidate for restoration. The artwork is great, and has a music/dancing theme. We bought this from John Dayhuff, and accordingly got a tour of his basement after loading Hot Diggity into the back of our SUV. He has 70 working pins set up down there, and we thought we had gone straight to heaven. Anyway, he's a great guy, committed to the hobby, and I hope to do business with him again.

The next day we took a shorter trip, only 15 minutes away, to pick up a 1977 Big Deal. This one's in worse aesthetic shape, actually, but not beyond repair, the backglass looks pretty good, and the price was right. It's our first card-themed game, and a four-player EM, so it has twenty separate mechanical score reels to clean and adjust. Twenty. I was told that all of them work but one, but you know how that goes.

So with six pins, we're about maxed out on space until we lighten the load by selling a few.