A pinball machine from the 1930s made its way back to where it was made
RACINE, Wisconsin (The Journal Times) — Racine historian Jim Mercier is always on the lookout for memorabilia to add to his collection, which contains thousands of items originated from the community.
Mercier never knows what he’ll find, he said, but when he came across an online auction in Missouri for a pinball machine made right in the building he hosts a lot of his collection — the Racine Business Center — it was fate.
“I knew right away: I just had to have this,” Mercier said.
The wooden pinball machine, once coin-operated, simulates a game of poker.