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<blockquote data-quote="smbhax" data-source="post: 114050" data-attributes="member: 396"><p><a href="http://www.pinballnews.com/news/nib1.html" target="_blank">According to Pinball News</a>, the coming out party for Seattle artist Dominique Johns' custom pinball table, <em>Galactic Girl,</em> (aka "Dominique's Galactic Girl") took place at the Tiger Lounge in Seattle's Georgetown district in early 2010. The last update on Johns' <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~bugpost/bugstuff/sasb.html" target="_blank">silverAge silverBall</a> pinball operator site, from October 2011, notes that <em>Girl</em> was at that time in the Seattle Pinball Museum, in the city's international district. But the other day, while idly thumbing through the latest "Skill Shot" ("Seattle's Pinball Zine") that I'd picked up at the Ballard Full Tilt ice cream / pinball parlor, I noticed a surprising entry: <em>Galactic Girl</em> was listed as one of three tables at the little "Sureshot Espresso" student hang out lounge coffee place on University Ave in the U-District.</p><p></p><p>I last hit the Sureshot in maybe 2009 or '10, when Space Mission (still listed as being there as of 2011 on Dominique's site) was there, although it was badly out of balance. Re-scrutinizing the location on Google Maps, I was somewhat fascinated to find you can access two distinct time periods in their Street View photos of the block: the <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sureshot+Espresso&hl=en&ll=47.6615,-122.313108&spn=0.013643,0.031135&sll=47.661469,-122.313291&layer=c&cid=4115588414129874648&cbp=13,265.7,,0,0&cbll=47.661477,-122.313114&gl=US&hq=Sureshot+Espresso&t=h&z=16&panoid=9Ksaj78cLji9XsrGxRSyzg" target="_blank">sunny, contemporary one</a>, with the bizarre "Crepe Cravers" on its right and the ugly Chase Bank on the corner to its left, accessed by clicking the wide thumbnail photo on the left-hand column of the Google Maps view, and <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&cid=4115588414129874648&q=Sureshot+Espresso&gl=US&hl=en&ll=47.660575,-122.31195&spn=0.013643,0.031135&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=0&layer=c&cbll=47.661498,-122.313114&panoid=INSR-0NkC4Ect4a4sFC4FQ&cbp=12,247.55,,0,2.76" target="_blank">an overcast one from some years back</a>, when the storefront to Sureshot's north was vacant (previously this had been an awesome build-your-own ice cream place, with a cool old '70s pinball table of its own), and the corner was still graced by the Twice Sold Tales used bookstore--you get to this one by clicking the smaller thumbnail photo on the pop-up description of Sureshot that appears over the street map itself. Wouldn't it be neat if some day Google made it so you could just scroll the timeline back and forth through time as you navigate street view, so you could travel through it in space AND time?</p><p></p><p>But I digress. I had to visit Sureshot on the chance that <em>Galactic Girl</em> was still there--and it was, in the small back room next to the rest rooms, along with an <em>Aladdin's Castle</em> (Bally, 1975) and a <em>Monaco</em> (Segasa, 1977), all provided by Johns, according to the cards fastened to them--oh and a Street Fighter II Championship Edition arcade machine. Johns and I evidently share similar tastes in pinball machines--the late '70s is my favorite pinball era--so it was with extra excitement that I stepped up to his custom-built machine:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://smbhax.com/stuff/131111_galactic_girl1_machine.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://smbhax.com/stuff/131111_galactic_girl2_upper.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://smbhax.com/stuff/131111_galactic_girl3_lower.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smbhax, post: 114050, member: 396"] [url=http://www.pinballnews.com/news/nib1.html]According to Pinball News[/url], the coming out party for Seattle artist Dominique Johns' custom pinball table, [i]Galactic Girl,[/i] (aka "Dominique's Galactic Girl") took place at the Tiger Lounge in Seattle's Georgetown district in early 2010. The last update on Johns' [url=http://home.comcast.net/~bugpost/bugstuff/sasb.html]silverAge silverBall[/url] pinball operator site, from October 2011, notes that [i]Girl[/i] was at that time in the Seattle Pinball Museum, in the city's international district. But the other day, while idly thumbing through the latest "Skill Shot" ("Seattle's Pinball Zine") that I'd picked up at the Ballard Full Tilt ice cream / pinball parlor, I noticed a surprising entry: [i]Galactic Girl[/i] was listed as one of three tables at the little "Sureshot Espresso" student hang out lounge coffee place on University Ave in the U-District. I last hit the Sureshot in maybe 2009 or '10, when Space Mission (still listed as being there as of 2011 on Dominique's site) was there, although it was badly out of balance. Re-scrutinizing the location on Google Maps, I was somewhat fascinated to find you can access two distinct time periods in their Street View photos of the block: the [url=https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sureshot+Espresso&hl=en&ll=47.6615,-122.313108&spn=0.013643,0.031135&sll=47.661469,-122.313291&layer=c&cid=4115588414129874648&cbp=13,265.7,,0,0&cbll=47.661477,-122.313114&gl=US&hq=Sureshot+Espresso&t=h&z=16&panoid=9Ksaj78cLji9XsrGxRSyzg]sunny, contemporary one[/url], with the bizarre "Crepe Cravers" on its right and the ugly Chase Bank on the corner to its left, accessed by clicking the wide thumbnail photo on the left-hand column of the Google Maps view, and [url=https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&cid=4115588414129874648&q=Sureshot+Espresso&gl=US&hl=en&ll=47.660575,-122.31195&spn=0.013643,0.031135&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=0&layer=c&cbll=47.661498,-122.313114&panoid=INSR-0NkC4Ect4a4sFC4FQ&cbp=12,247.55,,0,2.76]an overcast one from some years back[/url], when the storefront to Sureshot's north was vacant (previously this had been an awesome build-your-own ice cream place, with a cool old '70s pinball table of its own), and the corner was still graced by the Twice Sold Tales used bookstore--you get to this one by clicking the smaller thumbnail photo on the pop-up description of Sureshot that appears over the street map itself. Wouldn't it be neat if some day Google made it so you could just scroll the timeline back and forth through time as you navigate street view, so you could travel through it in space AND time? But I digress. I had to visit Sureshot on the chance that [i]Galactic Girl[/i] was still there--and it was, in the small back room next to the rest rooms, along with an [i]Aladdin's Castle[/i] (Bally, 1975) and a [i]Monaco[/i] (Segasa, 1977), all provided by Johns, according to the cards fastened to them--oh and a Street Fighter II Championship Edition arcade machine. Johns and I evidently share similar tastes in pinball machines--the late '70s is my favorite pinball era--so it was with extra excitement that I stepped up to his custom-built machine: [img]http://smbhax.com/stuff/131111_galactic_girl1_machine.jpg[/img] [img]http://smbhax.com/stuff/131111_galactic_girl2_upper.jpg[/img] [img]http://smbhax.com/stuff/131111_galactic_girl3_lower.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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