Re: [UtVgG] Gold Mine

Kurt Mahan wrote:

Was there ever a Space Port arcade out this way? Growing up in Champaign, IL that was the "big" arcade.

Not that I know of. There were the chain arcades, like "Tilt", "Aladdin's Castle" and "Gold Mine", all owned by N&D. Then there were a lot of independent arcades. I was introduced to a number of games, including Star Castle and Crazy Climber at "Cricket's Arcade" at 3300 South and 2300 east, now a Dan's parking lot, just south of what is now a Tesoro station. At this time, that site was an older Rainbow or Amoco station, and Cricket's was another converted service station just to the south. -Chris