It's crazy to think that some American cities once banned pinball!
Whoa! Why did they ban pinball?
They thought it would cause kids to act out and commit crimes or become juvenile delinquents - pinball! Crazy!
Haha, adults will say anything to keep kids from having fun. There is nothing criminal about pinball.
The issues started in the 40s and didn't come back to being "acceptable" until the 70s! It went all the way to the California Supreme Court!
Wow, that's crazy! I wonder what it was about pinball that scared them.
I think it had connections to gambling when it first came out. 
Oh interesting. I wonder why they didn't just ban gambling.
That would have made more sense! They also felt that the machines were taking money from kids. And most of the machines were made in Chicago in an area that was heavily associated with organized crime.
Oh, it sounds like a lot of superstition and generalizations were involved in the ban.
Yeah, definitely. And it also seems like after the bombing of Pearl Harbor it was viewed as a waste of materials and time during the war. Which makes sense since aluminum and nickel were used to make the machines and those materials were also in high demand to manufacture weapons and bullets.