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Where was this arcade?

Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2019 10:13 am
by coppinpr
Anyone know where this UK arcade was please? (nice jukebox)
I also just found the second photo and the wording struck me as a bit... unreal?

Re: Where was this arcade?

Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2019 12:07 pm
by brigham
Swansea Pier. (I didn't know Swansea had a pier. Mumbles, perhaps.)
The benefits attributed to electric shocks were limited only by the operator's imagination.

Re: Where was this arcade?

Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2019 3:37 pm
by atticbrowser
I was wondering if the phrase ‘take a shock and look pleasant’ wasn’t a claim that the electricity would improve your appearance. Rather it was a challenge to see if you could keep a cheerful face while you received the shock. ‘Look pleasant’ was a phrase often used by Victorian and Edwardian studio photographers when posing their clients.

Re: Where was this arcade?

Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:17 pm
by badpenny
With absolutely no evidence to offer, I saw a photo very like that arcade in a book I was thumbing through in a shop. It claimed to be Brighton.
Looks like Bryans Magic machine on the right.

BP :!?!:

Re: Where was this arcade?

Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2019 10:09 pm
by coin-op
Hunstanton; seem to recall it being a Francis frith photo

Re: Where was this arcade?

Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:18 pm
by badpenny
Well at least we're on the same island.

Re: Where was this arcade?

Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 2:22 pm
by bryans fan
badpenny wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:17 pm
Looks like Bryans Magic machine on the right
!LOOK!
Or a Bryans clock!