Sounds like time for the government to step in. /sarc
Posted on 05/24/2011 3:17:30 AM PDT by markomalley
WASHINGTON - Stoppers. Bells. Flippers. And the occasional tilt.
That's what you'll find with the more than 900 classic pinball machines at the National Pinball Museum in Georgetown.
However, this summer, the last pinball will drop, and the museum will close its doors.
David Silverman opened the museum six months ago in the Shops at Georgetown Park mall.
Last Thursday, he got a letter from the new mall owners, Vornado Realty.
"In that letter it basically says we're taking your lease ... and we're throwing you out in 60 days," Silverman says.
Silverman signed a lease that allows mall owners to void it at any time.
He says his original contract ends in December, so he's questioning why the company is shutting him down in just two months.
"Nothing's going to be going in between the time we have to get out and ... December," Silverman says. "I'm like in a state of panic, because it took me six months to build this place, $300,000 to do it. I don't have a penny."
WTOP has contacted Vornado Realty for comment.
Sounds like time for the government to step in. /sarc
Around most cities, the malls are never full and would welcome any kind of tenant.
This was in Georgetown...which is the wrong place to put this kind of museum. I would suggest that he visit Arlington....we’ve got lots of prime property and would welcome this kind of operation.
OK, I’ll take your word for it. The article said it was a mall.
It probably was attracting the wrong kind of people.
Silverman signed a lease that allows mall owners to void it at any time.
That’s one heck of a lease. Is it common?
Really. If you sign a lease that doesn’t hold the landlord to the time-period of the lease then you are what? Dumber than a bag of hammers?
Considered the Holy Grail of pinball. Only 10 made. Appropos nothing, I once worked for it's designer Rob Morrison.
it’s the zot! machine!
As I hear it, so long as you are willing to overpay on rent!
>> Silverman signed a lease that allows mall owners to void it at any time.
That’s the fact that turns this from the “defenseless victim” story implied by the headline into an event that, frankly, isn’t even news.
One of the first (free) game apps I downloaded for a new Android phone.
Gawd, something to replace “Puppetry of the Penis” at the Rosslyn Spectrum or all those cadavers at the big Egg next door, where they used to have the Gannett /USA Today Newspaper museum.
I wouldn’t consider it the Holy Grail. Rare, yes, but just an ok game. Would much rather get my hands on a nice Medieval Madness or Attack From Mars.
If capcom would have only release that first :) ... I was able to play Big Bang Bar and Kingpin at a collector’s house :) ... I bought NOS Flash Gordon playfields from him ... nearly dropped dead when I saw it :).
You need to be on this thread....
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