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Re: Arcade Photographs
Question for our resident ambassador in Las Vegas.
John,
When I looked up the site of that photo, I didn't expect to find the restaurant, but I did expect to find highway 40... but it's not there. Did the name change? Did it become I-80?
John,
When I looked up the site of that photo, I didn't expect to find the restaurant, but I did expect to find highway 40... but it's not there. Did the name change? Did it become I-80?
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Sorry, Coppinpr, we're all hunkered down right now. We can't disclose our location for fear of Corona seeking us out, hence, no directional or mapological information permitted. Please ask again in 60 days, if we're still alive.
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I read today that gun and ammo sales have risen John.
Are y'all gonna blast your way out like Butch & Sundance?
Over here the Corona thingy has necessitated us raising the situation to "Better put the kettle on!"
BP
Are y'all gonna blast your way out like Butch & Sundance?
Over here the Corona thingy has necessitated us raising the situation to "Better put the kettle on!"
BP
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"Are y'all gonna blast your way out like Butch & Sundance?"
"Y'all?". Bless your Southern heart, BP.
J Peterson
Yankee no more
"Y'all?". Bless your Southern heart, BP.
J Peterson
Yankee no more
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Heavens To Betsy Colonel, you wouldn't go tellin' no lies to a pure Southern Belle now would you? ...... Bless your pea-pickin' little heart!
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The corona man stopped calling at our house in 1963 so I haven't drunk any since then... so I should be safe
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Re: Arcade Photographs
That dang machine is a heap braver than I am.pennymachines wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2020 8:23 pm Big photo of BAC Speak Your Weight scales (Getty images).
This is a really bad photo I think it's a photocopy of a news clipping. It says slot machines being prepared for a new season on Weston Super Mare Pier in the early 60s. It claims the machines were designed and built by the pier owners!!? (would those two blokes be the pier group, and are they under pressure?)
I think I might have seen this piccy before, unless I'm mixing it up with the photo (coppin?) posted months ago of a bank of bandits and kids where the handles also seemed to attach very low on the mech.
Anyhoo I don't recognise them anybody here?
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May well be same machines as the payout tray matches the position. The Hi Tops looked like a facade to something else probably electric, which these look to be with the relay on top and wiring loom....
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Well I have to say a huge thank you to those who have contributed to this post; I've just spent a lovely relaxing hour or so reading through it and looking at those wonderful machines. For those of you who aren't aware, I own a fairgound hire company and the Mrs has wanted to add an arcade to the business for many years now (her favourite machine being an Easy Push of all things, mine a Bryans Bullion). We're still in the early stages of building a nice collection, but was told by an old friend once, that collecting these machines is a disease, and boy wasn't he on the money!
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My turn to contribute. Historian James R. Smith has given me permission to put 30 of his scans of photographs online, surrounding the Playland At The Beach arcade in San Francisco USA, circa early 1930s.
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Tony's Amusements Arcade, Hurst Street, Birmingham, bombed out in 1940s.
Birmingham during the Blitz Birmingham Mail, 08/05/20
Birmingham during the Blitz Birmingham Mail, 08/05/20
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Re: Arcade Photographs
This is the Penny Arcade at Mundesley on the UK North Norfolk coast around 1955
The Arcade was originally run by the Baileys who where a Norfolk showman family, they purchased a Ditchburn Jukebox for the centre piece of the arcade direct from the factory in Lytham St Annes ...
The Arcade is still there today, now operated by the Grays Family who also are Norfolk Showmen
sadly no Ditchburn Jukebox now
All the best .... Dicky
The Arcade was originally run by the Baileys who where a Norfolk showman family, they purchased a Ditchburn Jukebox for the centre piece of the arcade direct from the factory in Lytham St Annes ...
The Arcade is still there today, now operated by the Grays Family who also are Norfolk Showmen
sadly no Ditchburn Jukebox now
All the best .... Dicky
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Re: Arcade Photographs
Luna Park Sydney Penny Arcade, circa 1950s/1960s. The coin-op amusements moved around the park over the years and now reside back inside the Coney Island fun pavilion. When this shot was taken some of the machines were located in this enclosure which was just under the Dig Dipper roller coaster (now demolished). Just to the right under the awning sat a row of mutoscopes. Both Sydney and Melbourne Luna Parks had large arrays of penny arcade machines of all types right up until the 1970s. Both parks still have amusement machines today with many 1950s - 70s pinballs and arcade machines in Sydney, whereas Melbourne Luna Park now has mostly more modern machines.
What can you see here?
Image by Edward Hopkins via Peter Angeles
What can you see here?
Image by Edward Hopkins via Peter Angeles
Re: Arcade Photographs
Slightly off-topic, not an arcade, but a photo of Paignton around 1953, I remember there were a number of arcades where we would spend our cash. Discovered this photo in a collection of coloured slides that my father took back in the 1950s when we were on holiday there.
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