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Garcia’s Pizza in a Pan, also known as “The Flying Tomato Brothers,” was founded in 1971 in Champaign, Illinois. At its peak, the chain expanded to operate 18 locations across Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. It became well-known for its unique deep-dish pizza and quirky branding. Some of the locations had a small selection of arcade games that ran on branded tokens. This location is today…
Garcia’s Pizza in a Pan, also known as “The Flying Tomato Brothers,” was founded in 1971 in Champaign, Illinois. At its peak, the chain expanded to operate 18 locations across Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. It became well-known for its unique deep-dish pizza and quirky branding. Some of the locations had a small selection of arcade games that ran on branded tokens. This location was the…
Garcia’s Pizza in a Pan, also known as “The Flying Tomato Brothers,” was founded in 1971 in Champaign, Illinois. At its peak, the chain expanded to operate 18 locations across Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. It became well-known for its unique deep-dish pizza and quirky branding. Some of the locations had a small selection of arcade games that ran on branded tokens. This location moved from the…
Proof of existence and closure in 2006 https://rcdb.com/5932.htm
Perhaps located in or near the Faber Snack Bar, a Union Station fixture for decades.
Little historical record of this arcade is available, but it did exist during the 1990’s in Brickyard Mall. It likely opened in 1993 and it’s exact closing date is unknown. The venue included bumper cars and a Sega R360 flight simulator. Reference https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-proof-of-funland-arcade/169677523/…
This was a 2nd location of the Fun Zone Game Room, but much less is known about it. Reference: https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune/122238850/
One of a handful of Bally’s Tom Foolery early arcade bar/nightclub concepts that existed briefly in the early 1980’s. This was previously a Barnaby’s Family Inn, until Bally Manufacturing Co. purchased the chain in 1981 and converted a number of the locations to the Tom Foolery concept. The arcade crash of 1982, plus the mountain of debt that Bally’s was navigating at the time, put an unfortunate…
One of a handful of Bally’s Tom Foolery early arcade bar/nightclub concepts that existed briefly in the early 1980’s. This was previously a Barnaby’s Family Inn, until Bally Manufacturing Co. purchased the chain in 1981 and converted a number of the locations to the Tom Foolery concept. The arcade crash of 1982, plus the mountain of debt that Bally’s was navigating at the time, put an…
Knoxville Center was one of the chain’s signature mall outposts, opening in the late 1970s / early ’80s boom when Bally was carpeting America’s shopping centers with blinking marquees. Knoxville Center (née East Towne) patrons reminisce online about coupling castle tokens with a matinee at the in‑mall cinema.By the 1990s, the site had become a rite of passage for local teens—quarter…