Arcades becoming extinct..

[Jim Scheef]

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-in-a-few-days-hurry-if-you-want-to-play-a-game-there/ 
>>
>> 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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