![]() The typical player, however, is usually just there for a few hours of activity, the Tricketts said, and the flashing lights, bells and voices designed to make the games more amusing. Pinball enthusiasts will recognize the manufacturers - companies such Gottlieb, Stern and Ballys who shaped and dominated the industry over the years - and probably appreciate some of the facts that make each machine unique. Trickett now has 25 playable machines, dating from the 1950s to the present, with information posted beside each one. “I’m not trying to make a living,” said Trickett, a retired mechanical engineer. The Fernandina Beach Pinball Museum, which is in Sadler Square Shopping Plaza, has been in operation for a little more than a year. Now the public can operate those flippers for hours as well, just for the fun of it, or with hopes of becoming something of a pinball wizard. So the retired mechanical engineer figured out a way to keep his hobby going: He opened an interactive museum. Trickett’s wife, Jessie, watched as one room, then another at their Fernandina Beach home began to fill up with the arcade games.Įventually, “My wife said I was not putting one of those machines in the bedroom,” Trickett said. In the course of five years, he went from owning one machine to owning 15 of them. ![]() His hobby, however, was starting to take up a lot of space. FERNANDINA BEACH | It would be overstating the truth to say that Tim Trickett’s interest in pinball machines was out of control.
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