Memories of Ann Arbor’s Pinball Pete’s

The former home of a longtime staple for Ann Arbor-area youth, Pinball Pete’s, went up in flames last weekend and the AnnArbor.com takes a look back at it’s colorful history.Excerpt:I came to Ann Arbor for the first time in 1976 and played a few games of pinball at Mickey Rat’s, and then spent a lot of quarters during college playing pinball around town from 1985 to 1995.    Here’s a partial timeline of pinball in Ann Arbor with some personal memories mixed in. It’s missing a lot of details; please fill in what I’m missing below in the comments, and I’ll work the edits in to complete the story.A vacant pinball parlor on South University, once the home of Campus Pinball and later Pinball Pete’s, burned last Saturday. The neighbors had said that loitering and vagrancy were a problem at the building which had been boarded up for some number of years. The building, owned by the Tice Family Partnership, had once been on the market, but in 2004 there were no takers for the asking price of $1.2 million.Read the rest of the story here.