There is a story to it.
The pinball was owned by a notorious publisher, Al Goldstein, probably a familiar name to many people who were growing up in the 1960's, especially if you lived in NYC. Al was someone who fought a long legal battle over ****ography. He was the publisher of
Screw magazine (1968-2003, under Goldstein). It was a no-holds-barred magazine that ran-afoul of the social mores of the time, but in the end, they prevailed, after a fashion, as *** and its promotion became more commonplace. The internet became a treasure trove of it for those who searched for it, and the importance of
Screw magazine lessened, greatly.
Goldstein moved from NYC to Pompano Beach FL, where he bought a luxury home on the Intracoastal Waterway, which quickly became a 'must-see' stop on commercial boat trips taking tourists to see the sights. Goldstein often had multiple women who greeted the tourist boats as they cruised-by, and sometimes they wore bathing suits...at his pool . He also had a TV prop (from
Spin City) displayed prominently, a giant upraised middle finger, taller than a man, which served as a comment by Al about anyone with-whom he disagreed.
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Al loved electronics, of all-sorts, he would buy multiples, and use one, saving the others in their packaging. Periodically, he would call-up a Jewish thrift shop which upon being summoned to Al's waterfront home, would load-up their truck with all the unwrapped gadgets and toys with-which Al surrounded himself. They would go-back to the Jewish thrift shop, and be sold. The operator of the Jewish thrift shop is a long-time acquaintance of mine, and when I walked-in and saw the pinball machine, I decided it needed to go-home with me, if the price was right. It worked, not all the features, but good-enough to be able to play. Into the truck it went, and I enjoyed it as did my friends. Gradually it came to have more issues, and I looked-into getting it fixed, and found that it probably would be a better deal, and cheaper, to locate another than to try to fix this one. (I am not a good electrical technician). I kept the playing field and the 'tombstone,' the vertical scoring area, and junked the case.
Al is deceased, but like Lenny Bruce, whom Al knew in NYC, their influences on sexual mores and folkways, and the federal, state, and local laws concerning ****ography were shaped in some-part by the promotion of *** these two men did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/nyregion/al-goldstein-pioneering-****ographer-dies-at-77.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...f4e61c-68dd-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html
The
New York Times had this to-say about Al Goldstein's most-successful business venture:
Mr. Goldstein did not invent the dirty magazine, but he was the first to present it to a wide audience without the slightest pretense of classiness or subtlety. *** as depicted in Screw was seldom pretty, romantic or even particularly sexy. It was, primarily, a business, with consumers and suppliers like any other.
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