ANN ARBOR, MI — Long before Pinball Pete’s was a cultural landmark next to the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, the arcade had humble beginnings in a rival college town.

“I started when I was 8 years old and we were living in East Lansing,” co-owner Ted Arnold said. “We moved to East Lansing in 1964 and my brothers and I used to ride our bikes all over East Lansing and we were addicted to pinball.”

One day he and his older brothers pondered pooling their money to buy a used pinball machine. They bought a Gottlieb “Mayfair” game for $125 and set it up in their parents’ garage.

“After school, there’d be like 20 or 30 Schwinn bicycles in our driveway and the kids would be over there playing pinball,” Arnold said. “All of a sudden we had enough money and we bought a pop machine,

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