This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Item 4 is actions on special orders of the day that typically proceeds with the Council member announcements.

What you're hearing is an Oakland, California city council meeting that took place in July of 2014.

There's a whole bunch of different issues on the agenda, everything from allegations of funds being misused.

We know that there was a lot of manipulation of funds, okay?

And there's been a big ripoff with those funds.

Two announcements of neighborhood parties.

Basketball, pick up games, field games, face painting, zoom in dancing.

And producer Mickey Capra sat to the entire meeting like a good reporter does.

To hear them say this.

Move the item, Madam President.

Move by Vice Mayor Reed, seconded by Ms. McElhaney, and by consensus, we'll adopt the items in the consent count.

So they never actually say it directly, but by adopting the items in the consent calendar,

what happened there is that the city of Oakland finally legalized for the first time since the 1930s.

Pinball machines.

I'm Michael Shee, some of the founder and executive director of the Pacific Pinball Museum.

The Pacific Pinball Museum, which is a collection of really cool, mostly older machines that you can still play,

is in Oakland's neighboring city, Alameda.

Until recently, coin-operated pinball machines were also illegal in Alameda.

And it's the reason that we started out as a admission-based establishment and everything was on free play.

Most of the museum's pinball machines look a lot like the ones you've seen before in your local bar.

But there are a few really old ones that look completely different.

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