10 Jan
2009
10 Jan
'09
6:16 p.m.
Funny this should come up. I made one of my few trips to the Danbury
Fair Mall during Chanakwanazmus shopping season and noticed that the
arcade was gone - replaced by an equally useless gift shop that will
fail in a few months. Personally I found it nice to be able to sit in
that area (part of the food court near the antique merry-go-round) and
not be bothered by the noise and running mall rats, but that's just me.
:-) I do enjoy watching parents take their little kids on the
merry-go-round.
Jim
Dan Roganti wrote:
Bryan Pope wrote:
.. if they haven't already! :-(
I used to always go to this arcade when I was in Toronto (Funland
Arcade on Younge Street)...
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_19730.aspx
Now its gone.. :-(
http://arcadeheroes.com/2008/07/10/funland-arcade-in-toronto-canada-closing…
http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/453843
Syd Bolton of the Personal Computer Museum ( http://www.pcmuseum.ca/ )
of Brantford, Ontario on the last day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxA2WRqtUkk
The arcades of today may be disappearing, but the arcades of yesterday
are actually on the rise. We have 3 here already in Pittsburgh with a
lot of the original arcades, digital _and_mechanical, including
pinballs, bowlers, baseball and shooting arcades. There's a few cities
with some more, I haven't cataloged them all yet.
=Dan
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