Vogel’s daughter, LSA freshman Kate Vogel, said she continues to be a Pinball Pete’s regular, following in her mother’s footsteps. But that’s why we have the mix of stuff.” It’s the younger people we’re worried about. “The older people will always come to the arcade. However, as the only arcade in the area, Pinball Pete’s has attracted regulars from Detroit and even a few from pinball clubs in Ohio, according to Petterson. “There’s only so many hours in a day, and there’s not a whole lot of people that can fix these machines and most of them aren’t around anymore.” Ann Arbor’s arcade history is an example of this decline: the six other arcades in the Ann Arbor and East Lansing area have since closed, leaving Pinball Pete’s alone, according to Petterson. However, during the mid-1980s, people began buying the first home console gaming systems instead of going to arcades, and arcades began to disappear from U.S. The Arnolds soon expanded to Ann Arbor during the 1980s, eventually opening seven arcades in total, including the Pinball Pete’s just off the Diag. The business has used the pink-elephant as its mascot since. Opening in a former doughnut bakery, the arcade had a life-sized fiberglass elephant on the roof - which the brothers painted pink to attract attention. However, running the business in a residential area was illegal, so once city inspectors discovered the operation, the brothers closed the garage shop and opened in Monroe, and then in East Lansing.
The 10,000 square-foot establishment began when eight-year-old East Lansing native Ted Arnold and his two brothers set up a pinball machine in a garage in 1973, The Michigan Daily reported in 2012. “So it can take the older people back to the younger days when we were first introduced to those types of games.” Pac-Man, things I grew up with, are still here,” Vogel said.
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“When I used to come here it was mostly pinball machines, and now there’s stuff I have no idea how to do, but the original things like Donkey Kong and Ms. University alum Lisa Vogel, an Ann Arbor resident, said Pinball Pete’s was a popular hangout location and cheap place to unwind while she was a student. “They don’t make shit like that anymore.” “I turned it up, put it on blocks, cleaned up and three weeks later I threw the switch and boom, both monitors come right on,” Petterson said. After the flood, manager Aron Petterson, who goes simply by “Pete,” had no problem reviving a Reagan-era Nintendo relic, “Punch Out,” which had to be carried to the back of the store during the flood for safety. I’m mixed and I never thought I would experience racism or profiling in my life because I am an amazing person and kind soul to everyone I know and love I was a regular pool player too won’t be returning.Pinball Pete’s has endured multiple recessions and the advent of home console gaming without undergoing many changes.
I had to signal the turning motion to start a vehicle so he would let me get them, and calm down still no reason why I had to leave asking me questions about do you know how many students go to U of M? Are you a regular here?.I don’t go to U of M I dress nice sorry you’re miserable and disgusting, and hate your life, don’t waste your money. I shot some baskets and had to leave? I went back to get my keys that I left the owner looked like he was ready to fight. I was waiting for my friend to meet me to play pool? I’m still pondering and don’t know what I did wrong accused me of what? Claiming I used the back door I came through the front, profiling much the owner told me maybe I have bad judgement but I had to leave still, after asking what did I do they explained all my actions like they were watching me like hawks. I wasn’t allowed to use the coin machine? The owner himself was screaming at me about girls that were using the change machine for laundry, and all his life problems threatening to punch me, because I said if the owner was here he would take my money of course I was talking to the owner WOW great customer service bud, I was told I was on my high horse for saying that and whenever I questioned why I had to leave he said don’t interrupt me listen, yet still never explained what I did never told me why I had to leave you don’t like money? I played one game and they refunded me more money then I spent which is cool, but with no one around or in the place? I didn’t make it to the bathroom and my coins were taken out of my hands, still had to pee really bad. My coins were taken out of my hands before I could make it to the bathroom, and was asked did I read the sign on the change machine, and I was asked to leave.
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