Mandi picked up a second wind (3rd wind? 245th wind?) as friends gathered to celebrate her birthday. Happy 55th Mandi!
Archive | March, 2000
Day 13
Mandi is in her 298th hour and going strong!! We just had a bagpipe player in here for St. Paddy’s Day!! The aura about this marathon is so great and so positive…I know that everyone who’s been here is feeling the same thing. We are privileged to be able to be a part of this…. [...]
Day 9
Greetings from Mandi’s Pinball Marathon where the Queen of Pins is alive and well and wildly flipping her balls!! As I write this, Freebo is playing guitar with Harold Payne, lots of friends have stopped by and Mandi’s smile is as big as the Texas moon!! The LA Chapter of Just Plain Folks met at [...]
Day 8
Mandi’s doing great! 173 hours and still going strong! Well past the time of her first world record now, she’s in great spirits.
Day 7
GO MANDI GO!! Severin Browne dropped in after performing a local concert and did a set just for Mandi!
GUINNESS PINBALL CHAMP MARTIN LOOKS TO ECLIPSE OWN MARK
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Current Guinness Book of World Recrods pinball endurance champion Mandi Martin, longtime member of the board of governors of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, will attempt to break her still-standing 505-hour record set in 1979 with a 555-hour pinball marathon extravaganza scheduled for [...]
Day 6
Mandi believes she would be the perfect spokesperson for Depend Undergarments. Her slogan is “When there just isn’t time for one more break…” The photo says it all! (Mandi, They say that a picture is worth a thousand words… but in this case… it all depends…)
Day 5
Mandi was tired but in good spirits as she passed the 100 hour mark!!
Day 1
The weather might have been gray and dreary outside, but in Woodland Hills there were plenty of bright smiles and cheers as we kicked off Mandi Martin’s Millinnium Pinball Marathon. At 9:40 am on Sunday, March 5, Mandi gave the ‘ol pinball machine its first flick of many following the opening interview for the documentary [...]