PPM Board members Dan Fontes and Ron Chan Ron Chan was responsible for developing the full color Shoot the Moon program guide with generous funding provided by exhibitor Marco Specialties. Melissa Harmon conducts one of her teaching seminars at the PPMĪll-important security and parking facilities were managed by Jim Strehlow and Jem Gruber.īoard Member Jem Gruber takes a keen interest in his neighbor’s pinball technique PPM Curator Melissa Harmon’s artistic and managerial skills were constantly called upon as she multi-tasked throughout the four-day show. PPM Assistant Director d’Arci Bruno served as Facilities Manager capably assisted by Lynn Gustafson. The thousands of hours required to prepare and mount the show were managed and coordinated by key members of the PPM team.ĭavid Volansky, PPM’s newest Board member, was instrumental in the layout and engineering of the show and served as Floor Manager.Īs Volunteer Coordinator, Brad Grant did an excellent job managing and scheduling the tasks of more than sixty hard-working volunteers.īrad Grant with PPM donors Pat & Gordon Hasse Volunteer couple John and Stephanie Kimball check out the silent auction goodies The time and effort required to successfully stage and manage such a pinball extravaganza could not have been achieved without the tireless efforts of an exceptional group of dedicated volunteers, some who began work as early as June to meet the November 10th deadline. Players travel comfortably back in time along wide-open corridors Games were arranged in back-to-back “islands” with extra-wide aisles between them allowing visitors plenty of room to play and the unique opportunity to walk, chronologically, year-by-year, through the development of pinball from 1947 through the present. Plenty of storage for the PPM’s rapidly growing collection The new, 45,000 square foot PPM Annex provided the perfect venue to introduce visitors to nearly 500 pinball machines from the museum’s more than 1,300 game collection. PPM Annex by and courtesy of Steve Tsubota The new Annex is just minutes away from the PPM Museum’s 1510 Webster Street location, which is open to the public 6 days a week, featuring a rotating line-up of 100-110 games set up on free play.Ĭlick to explore a 360-degree video of the current 45,000 square foot The gala event was held in the new Pacific Pinball Museum Annex at 1680 Viking Street in Alameda, California. PPM Exposition 7 was staged to celebrate the importance of that move, showcase the museum’s greatly expanded collection and share with the public what the PPM has recently accomplished and what lies ahead. Having determined that more space was not just desirable but necessary, the PPM Board of Directors decided to move the museum’s entire inventory of games, except for those in the museum proper, into a huge new commercial space. Until July the PPM was faced with severe overcrowding in their former storage and restoration facility.Įven the narrow paths that separated aisles of games from one another had become impassable, requiring dozens, even hundreds of games, to be moved in order to unearth any given machine.Ĭlick to explore a 360-degree video of the former PPM warehouse Most recently, the on-going issue of adequate storage was successfully addressed. In the four year interim since the last show the museum space has increased significantly, the collection has continued to grow at a rapid pace and important progress has been made toward the funding required to relocate the PPM to the former Carnegie Library across from Alameda’s City Hall. Shoot the Moon proved to be an all-together fitting title for the 2016 show reflecting the PPM’s cosmic accomplishments since their last Exposition. Michael Schiess, PPM Founder, Larry Zartarian, PPM Board President and Gordo admire the show’s signature game Location: PPM Annex, 1680 Viking Street, Alameda, CA, USAĪll photos by and courtesy of Dave Miller Photography unless otherwise notedĪfter a four year hiatus, during which time efforts were focused on operations and expansion, the Pacific Pinball Museum resumed its highly successful series of PPM Expositions on November 11th, 12th and 13th, preceded by a special VIP early bird preview sale and party on the 10th.Įxposition 2016, the museum’s seventh, adopted the theme Shoot the Moon, borrowing the name and the George Molentin graphics from Williams’ 1951 pinball machine of the same name, which greeted visitors at the entrance to the show.
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