Pinball may seem today like one of the most innocent of pastimes , but in 1942 , the game was banned in New York City . Why ? And what happened to all those machines?This shortsighted comic by Julia Wertzhas the answer .
Over at the New Yorker , Wertz explain New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ’s vendetta against pinball and how he encouraged a proscription on the machines . The fate that many of the machine met pass water me desire to run to thePacific Pinball Museum , hug their 1940s - era pinball machines , and whisper , “ It ’s fine . You ’re safe now . ”
Also , if you ’re a fan of Julia Wertz , she ’s presently raising fund for her next volume , Impossible mass . If you ’re not familiar with Wertz ’s work , go go go to her website and tally out her comics . Her employment is crude and singular and oddly endear .
The N.Y.C. Mystery History Hour[The New Yorker ]
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