I wish Rob Berk and his Past Times Arcade all the best. Any local investment is a good investment and these machines are for the most part a truly American creation. Let's not forget them and continue to enjoy them!
I really hope he has a plan in place to keep the abuse these machine will suffer away from some of these groups who don't know how to act in public and these machines stay in the beautiful condition they are in now..Mr Berk is a smart business man and knows there are parents who will try to use this place as a baby sitting service just like some parents do dropping their kids at the mall..The age of these machines i believe should be admired for their beauty and not so much for playing and i think would do well just as well as a museum and not an arcade..But i wish Mr Berk luck and i applaud his collection
Entry fee. With this assortment of vintage/antique machines it won't be cheap. The older antiques won't be of much interest to the wilder cliental who do come in.
i give him credit for this unselfish gift to our youngsters and to the community by his will to share to give to them a place to enjoy family time and fun..My hope is everyone treat these machines with the care to keep them in nice condition..Thank You Mr Berk
Oh great, just what we need! NOT! Girard needs another grocery store not another way for its citizens to stick their head between their legs & avoid what's happening to the community & surrounding areas. Don't get me wrong, an arcade would be fine if it was in a smaller building on Liberty St. & the old IGA put back to use as a grocery store for the many elderly & those w/a lack of transportation like it was before. It's not like Santisi's wasn't making money, the owner developed a severe gambling addiction & lost his money so he was forced to close when he could no longer afford the buildings upkeep etc. Trust me, another grocery store would be more beneficial to the community than an extra large arcade would be, imo.
Agree that grocery store was a huge loss but at least it’s not like some of the closed stores in Youngstown just going to total waste , that is as long as it doesn’t get over ran with by the wrong type of patron and cause other problems.
Holy cow shut the absolute hell up. Just move someplace else if you so desperately need another grocery store in this small town. Just because nobody has wanted to stick their head between your legs in over 40 years doesn’t mean you need to come at this development of an arcade with such a visceral hatred. Going to an arcade isn’t an act of “avoiding the community and the surrounding areas” it’s performing a public service by supporting local business, meeting other people with similar interests in that community, and a temporary escape from the stressors of the outside world that isn’t doing drugs or drinking. From your comment and reply under it alone it sounds like this town needs that type of escape if you’re both SO worried about a damn grocery store, and I don’t even know where Girard even is! Hell, had this place opened in another building a year back, the owner of this grocery store might have been able to go to this arcade to destress with the probably 15 to 30 dollar entry fee they’d have, instead of spiraling deeper into his gambling addiction and losing his store in the first place!!! Each one of those old machines from the 60’s and 70’s usually takes me four full days to fully fix if I don’t need to order any parts, and this selfless gentleman wants to give back to the community by putting HUNDREDS of pins on display in what appears to be good working condition, and half of the responses to this video are people UPSET that the property he happened to buy to put all these machines in was the town’s abandoned grocery store? When I open my own arcade one day I guess I’ll be sure to buy a building that meant a lot to the local community, that way it keeps me from ever having to see people like you play my machines.
