Collector Goes Full Tilt with Pinball Hobby, Dreams of Opening Museum

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WASHINGTON - David Silverman has 867 pinball machines and a $2 million dream.

By day, Silverman is a landscaper who specializes in Japanese gardens, but in his spare hours, he is a full-time pinball fanatic. Over the past 30 years, he has amassed a collection of machines that dates to the 1920s. They are housed in a specially constructed building in Silverman's Silver Spring, Md., back yard where, on Saturdays, he often has people over to play the games for free.

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Collector Goes Full Tilt with Pinball Hobby, Dreams of Opening Museum

That's fine for now, but his big dream is to open a museum to share his collection with the world and to educate people about pinball and its history.

In his vision, the National Pinball Museum would be 10,000 square feet of pinhead heaven (pinhead is the term for pinball lovers...

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