In 1970 I worked in a jewelers across the road called Wrights. there were four jewelers in that block then. I used to go into the little railway bar in Central Station and order a pint of Guinness and pork pie for my lunch. I was only 17 and looked younger, but i was wearing a suit and tie so the lovely lady who worked there never questioned me.
I had a good pal, now sadly no longer with us, who was a big railway fan. He had photographed trains, tracks and stations etc all over the UK since the early 60s and had a huge collection of pics. My Dad was working on the new Liverpool Pier Head renovation in 1977 and got permission for him to go in and take pics of the Riverside Station. He did and completed probably the last comprehensive photographic account of it before it was demolished.
Fascinating bit of film . There's not much out there. Not even that many photos . It wasn't seen as anything special . And in its last year's was quite frankly an embarrassment . Light bulbs being changed was about the height of maintainance once moorfields was planned as a replacement.
Hmmm... Used to stuff coins into a Jumping Jack at a bowling alley back in the day. This layout is eerily similar. If they weren't both Gottlieb's I'd say King Pin had kinda ripped off JJ. Being an ever-popular single player wedgehead, go figure, this one looks like it'd have been more fun though I don't recall ever seeing one on location. Having both in *and* out lanes would make those pops somewhat less dangerous vs JJ's being located directly above the out lanes with no in lanes in sight. But it's all pinball so it's all good. Found your channel reading comments at "Joe's Classic Video Games". I love the good 'ol EM's. Subbed, and thanks for playing!
I have a Jack in the Box as well. Although the layouts are very similar the small physical differences and the big difference in game rules makes them very different games to play and both very high in the enjoyment stakes. Since they are both from the same year I guess they looked at ways of implementing an attractive playfield idea for both single player and multi-player games
Great seeing everyone again. No-one looked at their phones, fun was simple in those days. The cameraman was me and I have a bit better quality version on my computer. In fact there are probably several other pinball meets somewhere, I'm sure half a dozen people would love to see them again!
