Think you can play pinball? Put your skills to the test this weekend at at the Showdown at Slabtown. In my younger days I was a pretty decent player, but my little brother, Steve, was a master. We both used to play in the late-90s era Portland Pinball League at the now defunct Jockey Club [...]

Rise bright and early Saturday morning and head up to Mount Tabor for the 2009 Portland Adult Soap Box Derby. The races begin at 10am, and should complete around 4pm. Gah, I will be out of town much of Saturday, but if I were in town I would be up on Mount Tabor, in one [...]

2009 Update: Things to do in Portland on Christmas Day (2009) My family does the Xmas thing on Xmas eve, so I have traditionally spent part of Xmas day at Powell’s (1005 W Burnside). The downtown Powell’s is open 10am to 6pm today. It’s the best place on Xmas to encounter Portland’s non-Xian literati (read: [...]

In the late 90s my brother Steve and I played in a local pinball league. I was never better than above average, but my little brother was good. Good enough to win the league and tournaments repeatedly. We were always on the lookout for new machines to test our skills on, and in 2001, Steve [...]

There’s a new blog in the DaveKnows.org stable: pinball.daveknows.org. There’s not much there yet, but it’s a beginning. Steve, the man behind the venerable PortlandPinball.com, is my co-blogger. Anything pinball related is fair game: new machines, leagues, news items, tips, and whatever else we can think of. Stop by and take a look!

An article appeared in the Tribune the other day about the Portland Pinball League. Anthony Ramos, one of the owners of the Ground Kontrol Retrocade manages the league these days, and it sounds like the league is still going strong. One small inaccuracy in the article, however, caught my attention. The article states that: “The [...]