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--- jeff@i4.net jar155@gmail.com jar155@yahoo.com
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?
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I'm home sick today, in bed with my laptop, and I started looking for Sean's goldmine pics. What about this one, from Memphis? http://www.mallofmemphis.org/Main/GoldMine
Was there ever a Space Port arcade out this way? Growing up in Champaign, IL that was the "big" arcade. --Kurt Christopher Strong wrote:
I'm home sick today, in bed with my laptop, and I started looking for Sean's goldmine pics. What about this one, from Memphis?
http://www.mallofmemphis.org/Main/GoldMine
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Kurt Mahan wrote:
Was there ever a Space Port arcade out this way? Growing up in Champaign, IL that was the "big" arcade.
Not that I know of. There were the chain arcades, like "Tilt", "Aladdin's Castle" and "Gold Mine", all owned by N&D. Then there were a lot of independent arcades. I was introduced to a number of games, including Star Castle and Crazy Climber at "Cricket's Arcade" at 3300 South and 2300 east, now a Dan's parking lot, just south of what is now a Tesoro station. At this time, that site was an older Rainbow or Amoco station, and Cricket's was another converted service station just to the south. -Chris
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. On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Christopher Strong <strong@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
Kurt Mahan wrote:
Was there ever a Space Port arcade out this way? Growing up in Champaign, IL that was the "big" arcade.
Not that I know of. There were the chain arcades, like "Tilt", "Aladdin's Castle" and "Gold Mine", all owned by N&D.
Then there were a lot of independent arcades. I was introduced to a number of games, including Star Castle and Crazy Climber at "Cricket's Arcade" at 3300 South and 2300 east, now a Dan's parking lot, just south of what is now a Tesoro station. At this time, that site was an older Rainbow or Amoco station, and Cricket's was another converted service station just to the south.
-Chris
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I spent most of Junior High and High School at Pinocchio's Den of Iniquity (as it jokingly became known to me and my friends after someone's father called it the latter portion). 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.
-- 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.
Wow, Chris! That's great! Some one give me a memory check on this. Is this what you guys remember? I know Pete went there, anyone else? It seems to me the x-roads mall had a stylized pic of a mining cart on it also, but it's been a long time. A couple of days ago I tried to dig up a font that was close to my memory, this is really going to help! Thanks again! -- Sean McLachlan Christopher Strong wrote:
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