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Article: LAKE RESIDENTS STILL FLIPPING OVER PINBALL MACHINES
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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Flashing lights. Ringing bells. The unmistakable whang of a
spring-loaded plunger. A steel ball rolling, bumpers thumping and,
all too soon, flippers snapping, sending the ball back up the
inclined game board toward lighted scoring features at the top of
the playfield.
Few can resist taking a turn at a pinball machine. And for a few
lucky lake-area residents, a fast-paced practice session -- or
perhaps a spirited game with one, two or three other pinball junkies
-- may be as near as the lake-level game room.
That's the case with Arnie and Dee Kropf, residents of The
Waterfront, who have shared a vintage pinball machine since they
were married 19 years ago.
"It was part of Dee's dowry -- ...