Mechanical Memories Magazine

Editorial
Hello again (at long last)! The more observant among you will probably have noticed
it's been some time since the last magazine - three months in fact. The school holidays
seemed to start early this year, with many schools breaking up on the 17 th July, and so I
was open daily at Brighton before managing to get the July issue finished. I had hoped
to be able to get it out sometime in August, but then I remembered why I don't publish a
magazine in August - I simply don't have the time!
You may wonder why I've been so pressed for time this year. Well, it was my
intention to open a second arcade at Brighton, ready for the school summer holidays,
with a minimum of about two dozen machines. I had always intended borrowing a few
floor-standing machines from another operator (which I've done), but my problem was
with wall machines. It' s easy to fill an arcade with allwins, but novelty machines are not
so easy to come by, so I had the bright idea to build some! And that's where the
problems started. In short, I totally underestimated the time required to produce these
wondrous new pieces of 'vintage coin-op ' . The school holidays arrived; the arcade
wasn 't ready; none of the machines were finished; my twelve hour days then became
sixteen hour days ........ and that's why the July magazine didn't happen. Anyway, I
eventually opened the 'number 2' arcade ready for the August bank holiday weekend -
six weeks later than intended. I'll publish more details next month, in the meantime, I'm
sorry about the July mag. When I started the magazine over three years ago, I vowed this
would never happen. Seems I was wrong.
Well, that's it for now, I need a rest for a few days (not that it' s likely to happen). The
October magazine should follow this within a couple of weeks, as the entry forms for the
Coventry auction will be included, and I don't want them to be late.
Until then
All the best
Jerry
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