Amazing pictures of vintage 1968 US arcade

[Sgt GrizZ]

Wow - taken in 1968 at the Wonderland arcade in Kansas City. Pinballs, bingos, rifle games, skeeball , and a very creepy 'What Does Grandma Say' fortune telling machine - one for @Fintan Stack

It was on the corner of 12th and Grand in KC, by the power of the interweb I googled it and have attached a photo of how it looks today (last photo) - a sorry shadow of its former self, some sort of sports shop by looks of it. EDIT - its actually the national office of NAIA, The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics .

 

[Fintan Stack]

Want!


Great pics.

 

[Sam C]

Yeah can someone loan me their DeLorean so I can visit this place?

 

[mufcmufc]

Yeah can someone loan me their DeLorean so I can visit this place?

Day too late, I know where there was one yesterday

 

[Paul R Owen]

Love the car in picture 1.

 

[astyy]

It's nearly lunch, wish I could get a Root Beer and Chili Dog from the food bar

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

Yeah can someone loan me their DeLorean so I can visit this place?

Be great wouldn't it. Closest I've come (to seeing lineups of this era games, not time travel) is at Penny Arcade in Colorado. Documented here.

http://www.pinballinfo.com/communit...de-amusements-manitou-springs-colorado.27420/

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

Oh wow ......... here are pics of Wonderland in 1943 !!!

http://kcmeesha.com/2012/05/12/old-photos-wonderland-arcade-in-kansas-city/

And more here .... I love this place. Closed around 1982 apparently

http://www.johncglennon.com/pinball/info/wonderland/index.html

 

[RudeDogg1]

It's nearly lunch, wish I could get a Root Beer and Chili Dog from the food bar

Have you actually tried root beer? It's vile tastes like medicine

 

[replicas]

Its certainly got the right name, "Wonderland".
My kind of arcade.
Shame there's nothing like that today.

 

[replicas]

Have you actually tried root beer? It's vile tastes like medicine

Root beers brilliant.

 

[steve brum]

Order UP!

those rifle games weight a ton. Bit freaky that Grandma "breathes!". Make Zoltar seem tame

 

[Special When Lit]

Love the car in picture 1.

'59 Oldsmobile.

 

[ShootAgainChris]

Really interesting pictures there, I like the signs above the pinball machines on the 60's photos. "No prizes to be won" "you must be 16 or over" etc.

If anyone has got a small gathering of 60s pins then putting some signs up like that would look great.

I also love the fact that the arcade seems busy and everyone is interested and excited in what is going on there. If only we could capture some that back today...... Like Japan

 

[JT.]

If you've got a few mins spare, any chance you could compile this lot, and maybe a few others, into an A4 hardback coffee-table book @grizz ?

Fabulous photos - I love the way 1960's cameras could't quite do colour properly, and the graininess of the pictures - great finds

 

[Mfresh]

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