Hurrah!! Another game makes it's way to a good home. Lets see the hi res pics! My brother had a birthday at the ol' 49th street gonorrhea, probably 84 -86. I'll see if my parents took any pics of anything other than the lame party room where we had cake. As for the games, I got in there about 4 years ago maybe? They had one off site storage warehouse with games which had made the news due to a fire. The fire wasn't bad, but there was nothing of interest in there. Redemption, cranes, a merry go round, bumper cars, food service stuff, no pins, couple of shooting games and maybe a fighter or 2. I grabbed a black, sooty token that said "fun dome" on it, and walked out. I asked about anything else, and the guy said they had more stuff over at the actual 49th st location. I drove over, found an open door that construction guys were using, and wandered around till I found the games up on the second floor. More of the same, plus newer games, but no classics. I talked to another guy who had been there awhile, but he had never seen anything else but what was there. -- Sean McLachlan Jeff Rivera wrote:
Ok, so first things first. I ended up buying that Star Wars cabinet, but I did manage to talk the guy down from his $700 mark a bit. I got some hi-res shots of the cabinet and they looked great. Some of the issues I had noticed were just due to photo compression and the like. The board had just been serviced, so that's always a good thing. Anyway, I'm just getting shipping quotes now, and it should be here in a little over a week, depending on the shipping service.
Secondly, does anybody have any photos of the interior of the 49th Street Galleria before it went downhill? I'd really like some photos of the place, especially of the arcades and the miniature golf. My memory is a little blurry, but I seem to remember a pretty high number of games being there, and quite a few cockpits and sit-down versions of games. I definitely remember playing a Star Wars cockpit there.
Oh, and to satisfy curiosity, does anybody know where all those games ended up when that place closed down?
-- ---Jeff Rivera---
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