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Topic: Super 8mm Arcade Machines ... anybody remember these?
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 01, 2008 10:41 AM
The Hanna Barbera series of posts brought back a memory from childhood that I had completely forgot.
There used to be these "arcade" Super 8 machines! You would sit in them, and it had a curtian on them, (to cut down light from the outside) On the outside, it would have a list of cartoons that you could watch, and these were largely Hanna Barbera cartoons. It cost a quarter. You'd have your mom put in the quarter and select, (otherwise, you would miss some of your precious cartoon!).
I'm going to look these up on the internet, as I would be fascinated if there is anything about them on the internet.
Note: I think that these were used in porno parlors for naughty films, and the curtian allowed for , er, privacy.
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 02, 2008 01:01 PM
You know, I'm beting that there ae no doubt, coin operated machine vendors all over the country, that would have these old machines in the basements, that we intrepid collectors could haggle with and get for a song, as there may very well be extremely rare cartoons and such just sitting, vegetating in these machines waiting for us to get our sweaty little hands on!
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