Stern Pinball on the History Channel's Modern Marvels

Published: 04 September, 2008

Stern Pinball, Inc. appeared in a show titled "Coin-Operated" on The History Channel's Modern Marvels. The show, which will run numerous times over the next year, spotlighted the modern day coin-op industry, including pinball. Every 15 minutes, Americans insert over 3.5 million coins into vending machines, so it is big business. The show will run several times over the next 12 months.

The program visits a sprawling factory that mass-produces the latest in high-tech vending machines, a small company that makes a giant gumball machine that holds 40,000 gumballs and Stern Pinball, America's last pinball factory. It will also show various coin operated fare that amused people 100 years ago. Next is the transporting of Coinstar coin counting machines to a Brinks warehouse. The program ends at Marvin's Marvelous Mechanized Museum, housing some of the weirdest coin-op machines ever invented.

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