Silverman owns approximately 800 of these machines. And if a roomful of these babies doesn’t constitute pop-culture heaven, then nothing does.
“Even as a kid, I was fascinated,” says Silverman, a landscape designer by day whose Silver Spring home – or, more specifically, several outbuildings in back of his Silver Spring home – serves as the temporary quarters for his National Pinball Museum, which he hopes to expand someday into a facility complete with a research library, themed restaurant (he’s even got a name for it, The Flipper) and gift shop. “There was just something about the games. They’ve always been a fascination to me, and not just to get the high scores. I can remember, as a child, looking at the letters, at the artwork, at the flashing lights.
“When I was 4 or 5, and we’d go to Lake George for vacation, I just remember always playing pinball. We were supposed to be on vacation, but I was always playing pinball.”
Step inside Silverman’s showplace, where about 50 machines are on display, nearly all of them operational, and you can understand why. If someone’s playing, the ping-ping of steel ball bouncing against rubber bumpers, amassing 10 points for each bounce (100 when lit), is downright intoxicating.
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