#46 Rare TOUR of Pinball Factory ALVIN G & Company! See Mystery Castle being built! TNT Amusements
WOW! Filmed on Hi Band 8mm in 1993, a RARE tour of now defunct Alvin G & Company Pinball Factory while they were building Mystery Castle! Filmed during the Pinball Expo in Sept 1993 put on by Robert Berk and Michael Pacak, a rare glimpse in clear video of the complex process of building a pinball machine! PLUS, a portion of Todd Tuckey's 2 hour lecture on opening up a retail business like he did with TNT Amusements! ADDED PLUS! ORIGINAL Williams WHITEWATER drawings, whitewood, and even PHOTOS of the models for the backglass!!!
Also...watch this video--this is what I played during MY lecture about opening an arcade store!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1d70bYluBE
Just heard from Daniel Hughes who worked in Art Department of Alvin G and Company! He tells us some neat stuff about the backglass on Pistol Poker---these are his own words:
Yes we had some fun working at Alvin G. and we all thought we were going places!
I enjoyed watching these videos, almost seems like yesterday. I don't know if you were aware but I worked some of the folks who created the Pistol Poker game into the playfield art. The El Gusano (the worm) wanted poster is Wally Welch the game designer, the piano player is Kyle Johnson the music and sound designer and I am at the card table tipping my hat at the bar maid. Dan Hughes