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I used to love playing pinball.
There was a place on Barrack Street upstairs and downstairs where they had lots of machines. I think downstairs (street level) was mainly miniature car racing.

Cesspit wrote: I used to love playing pinball.
There was a place on Barrack Street upstairs and downstairs where they had lots of machines. I think downstairs (street level) was mainly miniature car racing.

Oh yeah, that's right, I remember the miniature car racing room.

Yeah that was the one called Strombeckers from memory.

Here is a an old (1976) mechanical Williams Blue Chip from the era just before pinball went solid state electronic. Old fashioned I know but was still good fun to play and there were quite a few in WA at the time. This American player in the video collects all the numbers with ease and fires up the Special when lit in the hole a few times. Damn good player.

Gotta love the slot cars on those big 8 lane tracks... I've still got all mine.

La Hincha wrote:

ShinyDuck wrote: This was a favourite of mine.

I am trying to think of the main pinball place that was in town in the 70's/80's. They had the Purple Pumpanickel and Strombeckers but can't think of the other one ...

Blimey, Orbitor 1 was a crazy game.

There was a place called Kelly's just up the road from where The Moon and Sixpence now stands.

Also there was a place up Hay Street opposite the Town Hall which used to have some good machines.

As I was reading this topic Kelly's sprung to mind from my youth oh so long ago when up from the country on holidays. A few years later after moving to Perth I went to check out Kelly's but it had closed, and was a Lingerie shop. Big change of trade and clients

La Hincha wrote:

Cesspit wrote: I used to love playing pinball.
There was a place on Barrack Street upstairs and downstairs where they had lots of machines. I think downstairs (street level) was mainly miniature car racing.

Oh yeah, that's right, I remember the miniature car racing room.

Yeah that was the one called Strombeckers from memory.

Correct LH, Strombeckers it was and across the road was Brownes Milk Bar, best chocolate Milkshake in Perth

Interesting bit here about track from Strombeckers been for sale, not sure how old this is neophytte.mine.nu/forum/forum.pl?fid=05&topic_id=1176206043

Wow, look at that. The old racing car track still intact.

Here's an old Kelly's classic from 1978 you might remember Kirbs. Williams World Cup.

La Hincha wrote: Here's an old Kelly's classic from 1978 you might remember Kirbs. Williams World Cup.

They have electronic scoreboards, my era they were still the old roll down numbers but only a year earlier

kirbs wrote:

La Hincha wrote:

Cesspit wrote: I used to love playing pinball.
There was a place on Barrack Street upstairs and downstairs where they had lots of machines. I think downstairs (street level) was mainly miniature car racing.

Oh yeah, that's right, I remember the miniature car racing room.

Yeah that was the one called Strombeckers from memory.

Correct LH, Strombeckers it was and across the road was Brownes Milk Bar, best chocolate Milkshake in Perth

Interesting bit here about track from Strombeckers been for sale, not sure how old this is neophytte.mine.nu/forum/forum.pl?fid=05&topic_id=1176206043

Shit I can remember this as well.

Loved me pinnies...Use to frequent a local little joint opposite the Leopold hotel called Happys. Those were the days.