EP89: The History of Pinball, The Day a ...

On this episode of Our American Stories, Jeremy Saucier of the Strong Museum of Play shares the long, and surprising, history of pinball--from its origins in French parlor games, to its prohibition, and then to its emergence as the immersive and popular game that it is today; The History Guy shares how in 1984, during a period of Cold War tension, a Soviet submarine collided with a United States aircraft carrier; and Ric Mixter of Lake Fury tells the story of how the Edmund Fitzgerald was bigger than most with a crew and captain well seasoned...but how on November 10th, 1975, she and her 29 man crew were sent to the bottom of Lake Superior. 

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Time Codes:

00:00 - The History of Pinball

08:00 - The Day a Soviet Nuclear Attack Submarine Rammed an American Aircraft Carrier

18:00 - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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