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Entertainment => Family Entertainment Centers => Topic started by: Pikapower on November 22, 2014, 07:34:03 PM

Title: Time-Out Aracade
Post by: Pikapower on November 22, 2014, 07:34:03 PM
Time-Out was a chain of arcades in malls during the 80s.

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Title: Re: Time-Out Aracade
Post by: ynkeesfn82 on November 22, 2014, 07:52:59 PM
At the Buckland Hills Mall in Manchester, Connecticut Time-Out was originally on the first floor of the Sears Store. Later it moved to its own space in the Food Court of all places.
Title: Re: Time-Out Aracade
Post by: Pikapower on November 22, 2014, 07:53:57 PM
It seems that many malls had their arcade near the food court.
Title: Re: Time-Out Aracade
Post by: BillyGr on November 23, 2014, 03:08:00 PM
Got this from Wikipedia, but I know I have read it elsewhere (the cited link doesn't seem to work at the moment):

The Time-Out Tunnel: Tico Bonomo, former owner of Bonomo's Turkish Taffy, established the first Time-Out Family Amusement Center in the Northway Mall in 1970 and was one of its very first tenants. The Time-Out Tunnel, as it came to be known, turned into a chain of mall arcades throughout the Northeast in the 1970s and 1980s. The Time-Out Tunnel at Nothway Mall remained in operation through the end of December 1998 when the mall was finally closed. The Time-Out Tunnel therefore has the distinction of being a tenant from the mall's inception right through the very end of its existence as an enclosed mall.
Title: Re: Time-Out Aracade
Post by: Ameskid on February 07, 2015, 02:19:12 AM
Wow - just found this site with photos of Time-Out On The Court at Forest Fair Mall in Cincinnati.
http://www.geocities.ws/pinwiz/timeout.html

QuoteAt the center, there was also a large indoor amusement park complex called "Time Out on the court" , which apparently even caused seizures (although it's now closed, I'm almost positive the warning signs are still there!)

...for those not familiar with Forest Fair, it was redeveloped into Cincinnati Mills, which also failed spectacularly, renamed itself to Cincinnati Mall, and (IIRC) recently started calling itself Forest Fair again.  The vacancy rate has to be somewhere around 90%.
Title: Re: Time-Out Aracade
Post by: TRJ_22487 on February 09, 2015, 10:22:30 PM
I still have the Lake Grove, NY location from The Goldstein Group
Time-Out went out of business in October 2000
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Title: Re: Time-Out Aracade
Post by: EddieJ1984 on February 11, 2015, 09:16:16 PM
There is still one open (at least last time I was there a few months ago) in Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, PA.
Title: Re: Time-Out Aracade
Post by: MikeRa on February 19, 2015, 09:31:28 PM
Namco acquired Edison Brothers Mall Entertainment (operating under the Time-Out and SpacePort names) back in 1996, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco)

Time Out is still in Neshaminy Mall, Bensalem, PA