This pin has five pop bumper action, a center up post by the flippers, and a mini post that pops up on the left lane at the bottom of the playfield.  The up post, which is called a "lamp post," in this pin, was used in many other Williams' pins, including Space Shuttle, where it's referred to as a "heat shield."

Not sure why Williams used a plastic shooter housing in some pins, which can crack, but eventually they went to a metal housing, sometime in the early 70's.  Notice the coin entry plates: "2 nickels 1 play, dime 1 play, quarters 2 plays."  Just a few years later, the plates would only read "quarters."  If you need replacement coin door plates, you can order them HERE at Pinball Resource.

This cabinet was in really good shape. Interesting to note, the border around the backglass is white, and appears to be original, yet most Williams pins of this era are painted black or repainted a flat white that doesn't match the original paint.

Other stuff inside the show included this Megatouch videogame.

There were also videogames for sale.

If I had the space, I would have bought this "Mad Dog II:  The Lost Gold" 1992 laserdisc videogame.  

The new pins, including Spiderman, was quite popular, and was used a tournament pin on Saturday.

However, there were many other pins to choose from.

Floor space was sold out!

Flash n Trash Antique Amusements had some interesting items, including these oddities.  I checked with the newsgroup rec.antiques.radio+phono, and found out the top unit is a World War II army receiver, and the bottom unit is a keyer for Morse code. I guess the middle unit is the amplifier? You can read the newsgroup thread about these items here.

Wonder where this is from? Perhaps a long gone amusement park or carnival? 

I should have bought some of these magazines.  I've always been fascinated with how race cars were designed before everything went computerized.

I'm guessing this gas sign on the left is probably from the late 50's or early 60's, judging by the price.  Interesting stuff for the gameroom or garage.

 More vintage stuff.

This backglass is from a 1951 Universal/United bingo machine.  The Internet Pinball Database says Universal was a subsidiary of United only from 1949-1951, so I'm guessing this backglass is somewhat rare.  

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