I would have been okay if we never got it working again, but Tom was determined. Gross!Īfter we got it cleaned up, we set to getting it working again. That stuff is the best – it easily removed what we think was tobacco leftover from the Pachinko parlor when no other cleaning product I tried would work. We spent hours with Q-Tips and my favorite Young Living Thieves household cleaner. Tom and I set to work getting it cleaned up. We’re pretty sure that it spent the following 37 years in a barn, because it was disgusting – dirt, cobwebs, dead spiders disgusting. I did some research on it, and this particular machine was used in a Japanese Pachinko parlor in 1976. I posted the above picture to Instagram, and a lot of you guys let me know it was a Pachinko machine (think Plinko meets a slot machine). In fact, two different people were trying to buy it while I was completing the transaction with the seller. It was one of those vintage shopping moments when I knew that I had to act immediately. Without really even knowing what it was, I bought it. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular…until I spotted this baby when I rounded a corner. Leigh Ann had just recently moved here, and she was looking for a few things for her home. Back in April, my sister and I went to the City Wide Garage Sale (aka amazing monthly vintage show) here in Austin.
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