{"id":13179,"date":"2018-09-30T18:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/?p=13179"},"modified":"2018-09-30T18:54:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T17:54:02","slug":"pinspotting-here-and-there-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2018\/09\/30\/pinspotting-here-and-there-september-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"PINSPOTTING: HERE AND THERE – SEPTEMBER 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the first edition of PinSpotting. This column will be submitted to Pinball News occasionally to share with the readers the games that I have found in places that people would not normally expect to find them.<\/p>\n

Portillo\u2019s Restaurant and Drive-Through<\/strong>
\nGurnee Mills,\u00a0Gurnee, IL, USA<\/p>\n

\"Portillo's<\/a>
Portillo’s at Gurnee Mills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each of Portillo\u2019s restaurants have unique \u2018themed\u2019 decor; the location at the Gurnee Mills shopping center has a ‘Chicago in the 1930s’ theme. This is expressed with artwork for the Chicago World\u2019s Fair, antique signs with neon lighting, and in one room, four playfields from antique pinball games.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The ’30s Chicago theme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately the people responsible for acquiring the pinball playfields apparently were not\u00a0experts – the playfields on display are quite a bit newer than the 1930s theme.<\/p>\n

The playfields on display at Portillo\u2019s Gurnee are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Left: Tropic Isle<\/em>, Gottlieb, April 1962,
\nart by Roy Parker<\/td>\n		Right: Sunset<\/em>, Gottlieb, November 1962,
\nart by Roy Parker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\"Gottlieb's<\/a>
Gottlieb’s Tropic Isle & Sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Left:\u00a0Champion<\/em>, Bally, April 1949,
\n1-ball for 5 cents, horserace game<\/td>\n		Right: Big Casino<\/em>, Gottlieb, July 1961,
\nart by Roy Parker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\"Champion<\/a>
Champion & Big Casino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n
\n<\/div>\n

Gilmore Automobile Museum<\/strong>
\n6865 W Hickory Rd.,\u00a0Hickory Corners. MI USA<\/p>\n

\"George<\/a>
George & Sally’s Diner at the Gilmore Automobile Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a part of the museum dedicated to children\u2019s pedal-cars, seeming somewhat out of place, is a Williams Maryland<\/em> wood rail machine made in 1949. The artwork for this game was done by George Molentin.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The children’s pedal cars section<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Maryland<\/a>
Maryland by Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was a card on top of the playfield glass that incorrectly identified the machine as something altogether different. We temporarily removed the misleading card when our photo of the game was taken.<\/p>\n

The museum has placed a \u2018do not touch\u2019 sign on the coin chute of the machine and it is not plugged in to power; as such, it is not playable by visitors.<\/p>\n

More PinSpotting coming soon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the first edition of PinSpotting. This column will be submitted to Pinball News occasionally to share with the readers the games that I have found in places that people would not normally expect to find them. Portillo\u2019s Restaurant and Drive-Through Gurnee Mills,\u00a0Gurnee, IL, USA Each of Portillo\u2019s restaurants have unique \u2018themed\u2019 decor; the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[746,745,744,747,97,308,720,743],"class_list":["post-13179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learn","tag-gilmore-automobile-museum","tag-gurnee","tag-gurnee-mills","tag-hickory-corners","tag-illinois","tag-michigan","tag-pinspotting","tag-portillos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13179"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13484,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions\/13484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}