Mike Hooker spends his nights maintaining trains on the Long Island Railroad. He spends his days fixing pinball machines. He’s a freelance pinball repair tech, one of the last serving the New York ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

This drone footage from Eddie Codel shows thousands of pinball machines under repair at the Pacific Pinball Museum Annex in Alameda, California. The Pacific Pinball Museum Annex in Alameda, California ...

Paul Hodges, owner of Paul’s Pinball Palace in Newport, cleans and adjusts switches on a 1970s electomechanical pinball machine. Hodges has restored hundreds of pinball machines for clients from all ...

Old pinball machine in need of repair? There’s a guy for that. Dan Kearney, owner of Pinball Fixer here in Sioux Falls, has been working on coin-operated machines for the past 14 years, including ...

IOWA CITY — With a bachelor’s degree in art history, Annie Fitzgerald was trained in restoring art pieces for museums and galleries. The work needed patience and attention to detail as she conserved ...