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Pinball tournament today, so please content yourself for now to reading What’s Going On In The Phantom (Weekdays)? It’s nothing, right? July – October 2025 and looking at a dozen pictures from our farewell visit to Marvin's in its historic home:
Press clippings on the door to what had been Marvin Yagoda's office. Though this door is the only place I ever saw him.
Heaps of things over ... you know, I can't figure where this was. Somewhere near Marvin's office makes the most sense.
Aircraft and another sign reading Tally ... which implies somewhere to its right must be ...
Aircraft and a sign reading Hall! I wonder how many of these they saved.
Dolli Dimples, I am told by the Chuck E Cheese Wiki, was the piano-playing hippo in the cabaret side dining rooms. She was, you know, for the adults.
Looking down one of many rows of coin-op games, this one starting with --- well, there's an anteater toy right up front, and then the Love Shack guy next.
And the reverse of that view, looking over at the story of the World's Largest Stephen Colbert.
Here's the famed Tic Tac Toe chicken.
And more of the coin-ops. The Mr Vacuum thing is a vacuum-based crane game that I won a 50 cent piece from, and for just a quarter, making it a rare profit center for me.
A broader view of the area, showing particularly the tables where you'd eat or have your party or whatever. So if you couldn't figure out what the wooden things at the bottom of the previous picture were, here they are. The big black metal thing had ballyhoo claiming it had been at the Tower of London.
More of the dining area, plus the coin-op piano capable of doing a whole lot of songs.
Another Marvin's clock, another incorrect time.
Trivia: The Apollo 4 test of the Command Module's heat shield --- on a trajectory planned as the worst-case scenario shallow reentry, with a maximum total heat load --- saw surface temperatures exceed 5,000 Fahrenheit, but the maximum char penetration was 0.88 inches, compared to the 1.25 inches expected. Source: Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space, Roger D Launius and Dennis R Jenkins.
Currently Reading: Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, Adam Higginbotham.
