-- Sean McLachlan MIS Manager, Quality Manager LithoFlexo grafics 801.484.8503 sean@lithoflexo.com Jeff Rivera wrote:
While we're talking old arcades, did anybody ever go to Pinocchio's in Bountiful? It was in Colonial Square. I was a real little guy when that place closed, but I still remember it vividly.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was my home town arcade. When my parents were buying their home in Bountiful, in the fall of '84, we lived for the summer at my grandma's house. She is just about 5 houses south of Colonial Square on the road on the east side. I could walk down there every day, and I did, much to my parents dislike. The upside was, I was begging for chores to do for my Grandparents and parents to make money. I was 14, so I couldn't have a regular job, but I'd mow the lawn twice a week, roto till the orchard and hand weed the garden, trim the liliac bushes, removed 2 fitzer bushes by myself, clean the garage... you name it. I would *come to them* with ideas for sprucing up the yard, washing a car, mowing the neighbors yard, anything to make a buck to spend on tokens. Remember how you got more if you spent $5? 25 tokens I think. And that summer their was a Frogger just to the left of the door as you walked in through the round cuppola type entrance. They had Star Castle, which I loved, and a Space Invaders that I won 4 tokens from a guy who bet me I couldn't beat his high score. I think he was leaving anyway and probably would have given them to me, but still. Felt like such a stud that day. Asteroids deluxe was a token eater, didn't play that much. Loved the Centipede, Frogger, Pac, Space Invaders, hated Defender. Even if I had no money, I'd ask the older guy who worked there if I could clean the games up, windex the screens, whatever, for tokens. He would usually let me, and one day he handed me this Big Gulp cup of tokens, probably 1/4 full, had to be over 100 in there, for taking the trash out too. Man, right now I can smell windex and Centipede.