If you have any old arcade pictures that you would be willing to
donate to the site, please contact
cfh@provide.net
I would love to add your pictures.
Also be sure to check out the
Arcade game, fortune teller, gun games, cranes/diggers web site, the
Baseball pitch & bat, Sports, Manikin and
Animated games web site, and the
Bowling and Shuffle Alley web site.
And of course the Norm & Shaggy pinball video restoration web site.
Welcome to a time that once was, as R.Bueschel would say.
Below are pictures from arcades, restuarants, drug stores, anything
we could dig up that had old games in it. We would like to
add some more pictures. If you
have any you would like to see here, please email them to me and I'll put
them up!
The idea behind this web site is really Norm's. He has been bothering
me that he wants to see pictures of old arcades, and there's nothing much on
the web. So he gave me the book, Coin-Ops On Location, 1993 by
R.Bueschel and E.Hatchell. Many cool pictures (some below), but we need
to replace those with our own. But I guess this gets us started until
people email us some pictures. Arcade pictures from any era needed, color or
black & white, even new arcade pictures.
The Pictures:
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Nautical Bar (Peggy Runway Lodge), Narrowburg NY, 1941.
Evans Ten Strike manikin
bowler on right (and reflection in mirror on left). R.Bueschel
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Indian Lake (Ford Russell's Point) Ohio, July 1941. Inside the following games can
be seen: K.O. Fighters (1928 National Novelty),
Iron Claw digger (1931 Exhibit Supply),
Princess Doraldina fortune teller (1928 Doraldina Corp).
R.Bueschel
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Bob's Place, Manitou Beach, Michigan, 1950, in Lake Superior off Michigan's
upper peninsula. Wurlitzer 1015 jukebox, Williams Boston Pinball (1949),
Exhibit Supply's Mauser Dale Gun (1947).
R.Bueschel
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Doling Park Penny Arcade, Springfield Missouri, June 1941. Games include Bally's
Bally Alley (1939).
R.Bueschel
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J.Cante's Penny Arcade, Union Beach NJ, August 1941, 10pm. Games inside include
Mutoscope's Photomatic photograhy machine (1940), Exhibit Supply's
Iron Claw digger (1931), Exhibit Supply's
Novelty Merchantman digger (1935).
R.Bueschel
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Sharkey's Bar, Norco Louisiana, 1941. A bar without limits. Games seen include
a Craps table at the back right, Gottlieb's Score-A-Line pinball (1940),
Jennings Grandstand counter game (1937), and a Mills half-top escalator Bell
slot machine on a stand (right side).
R.Bueschel
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Silver Dollar Bar, Sparks Nevada, 1938. Apparently the owner collects guns.
Games include three Mills Club Bell console slot machines (1937), and a Mills
Melon slot machine (1937).
R.Bueschel
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Zinck's Log Cabin, Pleasantville NJ, 1941. Machines include
Bally's Rapid-Fire (1941) and a Wurlitzer 850 "Peacock" jukebox.
R.Bueschel
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Unknown restaurant, probably in Denver Colorado, June 1936 (note the Coors
beer neon sign, which was at the time a local brewery). Slot machines shown
are a A.C. Novelty Multi-Bell (1936), and a Mills Mystery Golden (1933).
R.Bueschel
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1934 Exhibit Supply distributor showroom picture.
R.Bueschel
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South Carolina's Surfside Pavilion amusement park arcade
with many 1957 Williams Deluxe 57 Baseball
pitch and bat games. The arcade was torn down and replaced with a hotel.
The Surfside Pier remains next to where the Surfside Pavilion used to be,
but it has a much smaller arcade.
Note the games have no legs as they are mounted on a bench pedestal,
all have reissue backglasses (no "Williams"), all were repainted,
and the high score, home run and grand slam score reels blacked out.
These games were all later sold at auction around 2001.
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South Carolina's Surfside Pavilion amusement park arcade
(or maybe the Surfside Pier arcade) again,
but with a row of 1962 Williams
World Series Baseball pitch and bat games.
Note all the games have no legs as they are mounted on a bench pedestal,
all have reissue backglasses (no "Williams"), all were repainted,
and all have the high score reels blacked out.
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SS Billiards, south of downtown Hopkins Minnesota, in 1973 (this
arcade opened in 1972). Pinballs include Gottlieb's King Rock, Four Square,
Grand Slam, Flying Carpet, Pro Football, Williams' Super Star, Pong (video
game), Gottlieb's 2001 and Jungle.
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A Library of Congress picture, year and location unknown (probably 1940s
as the pinball is a non-flipper model).
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A Library of Congress picture, year and location unknown (probably 1940s
as the pinball is a non-flipper model).
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A Library of Congress picture, year and location unknown (probably 1940s
as the pinball is a non-flipper model).
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A Library of Congress picture, year and location unknown (probably 1940s
as the pinball is a non-flipper model).
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Though not an old picture and it's not an arcade, still pretty impressive!
This is D.Murphy's Gottlieb single player flipper collection, in chronological order,
from 1947 (Humpty Dumpty) to 1965 (Cowpoke). That's 45 machines!
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Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, 1968. This arcade was involved in some
federal court case (these pictures came from the national archives).
Apparently the arcade closed in the late 1970s.
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Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, 1968. The first two pinballs are Williams'
Hot Line (1966) and Gottlieb's Bank-a-Ball (1965).
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Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, 1968. The bingo machines. Good signage:
"No prizes of any kind or nature offered for high scores",
"You must be at years of age to play Pinball Machines", and
"Positiviely No Redemption of Free Plays".
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Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, 1968. Another angle of the bingo machines.
Again note the signs on the wall: "Sale of Free Plays to any person
absolutely prohibited", and "Please don't abuse Machines".
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Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, 1968. Note the
Kissing Kupids, the Genco
Sky Gunner, the Chicago Coin
Goalie, and a
Cleveland Grandma.
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Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, 1968. The photo machines.
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Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, 1968. The gun games and the Mutoscope
Voice-o-graph.
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Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, 1968. The Seeburg shooting gallery games.
Also not the Mutoscope
Tungo strength tester, the
Magic Baseball, and the
Metal Typer.
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Wonderland Arcade, Kansas City, 1968. The bowling machines.
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Savin Rock Arcade, Beach Street, West Haven, CT, late 1950s.
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Inside the Savin Rock Arcade, Beach Street, West Haven, CT, 1951,
Giuliano's Carousel and pinball machines.
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Arcade at Broadway and 52nd Street in Manhattan NYC, 1947.
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Arcade at Broadway and 52nd Street in Manhattan NYC, 1947.
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Arcade at Broadway and 52nd Street in Manhattan NYC, 1947.
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Arcade at Broadway and 52nd Street in Manhattan NYC, 1947.
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This is "The World's Oldest Penny Arcade" (business) in the country.
It has 11 penny games, about 12
nickel games, and 17 dime games. The rest are on quarter
play. The arcade is located at Spring Lake Beach in Burrillville, RI. It
has continuously been a penny arcade (defined today as the ability to spend
pennies) since around 1929. Many of
the machines have been here since new.
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More of the arcade at Spring Lake Beach in Burrillville, RI.
To keep history alive,
an agreement has been worked out with the town to dedicate 1/2 the floor space
to period machines with examples from every decade, 1920's through 1980's.
The most played game in the arcade is an
Exhibit Merchantman Crane filled with candy and operating on 10 cents.
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More of the arcade at Spring Lake Beach in Burrillville, RI.
Pictures taken in 2002.
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Spring Lake Arcade in 1948. Left is a Chester Pollard Play the Derby,
back are Mutoscopes, and right (hard to see) is a 1937 Rockola World Series
and a CCM Pistol gun game. Behind the Mutoscopes in the back looks like
an Evans 10 strike (again hard to see). Thanks to John Bateman.
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More Wonderland arcade pictures, 1972 (by Dave Poe)
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More Wonderland arcade pictures, 1972 (by Dave Poe)
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More Wonderland arcade pictures, 1972 (by Dave Poe)
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Many pictures and info from R.Bueschel and E.Hatchell's book,
Coin-Ops On Location, 1993.
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