Comments on: National Pinball Museum Coming to Georgetown

By: robin lester

robin lester — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:28:41 +0000

would like to know if anyone is interested in a 1972 chicago times pinball machine that we are trying to sell( we live in landover hills) ?

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By: Jad

Jad — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:28:11 +0000

I’m pretty positive the arcade was where Chipotle is now. Can anyone confirm? Pinball, but also video games and air hockey. About the same time there was also a basement one well up Wisconsin, at Van Ness.

By: pqresident

pqresident — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:53:11 +0000

ALWAYS loved the clack of an extra game!

By: Kate Whitmore

Kate Whitmore — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:42:40 +0000

There were some decent pinball machines at Whitey’s in Arlington until at least the mid ’80s.

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:41:14 +0000

@GM, granted it’s kind of a fuzzy cutoff. I think by the end of the 80′s video games and consoles had squeezed out most of the old mechanical games.

The handful of storefront arcades in Arlington shuttered their windows sometime in the mid 80′s.

By: Carol Joynt

Carol Joynt — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:22:07 +0000

I believe there once was a game arcade on M Street … near where Club Monaco now resides. It gave children someplace to go, something to do.

By: GM

GM — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:21:15 +0000

Actually I grew up in the 80s and the sound of the replay knock is absolutely music to my ears.

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:15:26 +0000

I think if you grew up in any decade before the 80′s, the “clack” sound of a free game on a pinball machine is in your DNA. I would very much look forward to patronizing this place.