Chuck E. Cheese*s - 1989 Store Tour at the Danvers, MA CEC 

Hello. I just saw your site. As the "designer" of the notorious Cheese E. Street, also known as the Cheese Factory, I am touched by all the comments. Working for Nolan Bushnell and Chuck E. Cheese was an amazing time of my life. Glad this attraction created many memories. K Atchley.

Wow, now I see what people mean about Chuck E. Cheese's being like a theme park or mini Disney World back then. I like the variety of shows and props. Now, CEC is boring since it's just a big open game room.

Man, they need to bring this back! Some rich entrepreneur needs to bring this back with one of the restored animatronic sets, and some of the old side acts. I love how the restaurant was themed with murals and paintings and not just an open area like now. I went to mine in Brandon Florida recently. They expanded the game section (they even have bumper cars now) but the band is old and forgotten in the back of the store and half of the animatronics don't work and look horrendous. We need someone to make one look like this, and to bring this whimsy back. I'm 18 years old and I'D want to go here just for the pure.......nostalgic feel it gives to me even though I wasn't born in this time period.

Watching this and other '80s Chuck E. Cheese videos makes me wish I'd been born at 15 years year earlier so I could have witnessed the golden years of CEC. Even though the golden age ended before 1989, as you pointed out, it is neat to see how this CEC retained its early '80s flavor well through the end of the '80s. The decor and set-up just ooze that moody atmosphere so common in arcades of the era (I love the rat CEC rug!). Last time I visited the Danvers CEC was at least 8 eight years ago, and I recall it primarily being just one huge room with an arcade and dining area, plus the showroom. Not sure how much (if any) it's changed since then, but thanks for this video!

Wowww nostalgia overload. Today was my sons birthday and I took him here. Sadly its nothing like I remember as a kid in the 80s and 90s here in Pittsburgh. My biggest memory is the dimly lit, desolate, out of this world animatronic room with Elvis Chucky and his gang playing in a band. My memory is poor but I remember the dinosaur coin flip game , Nintendos Tmnt arcade game, simpsons arcade, whack a croc, giant rainbow swirl lollipops and so much more. Everything is so tacky now. Id love to hear any memories of arcade cabinets that once were present at Chucky Cheeses.

Man, things used to be so unique and have so much character. Everything is so generic now. Very sad, I'd go back to these days in a heartbeat.

I remember going to this location after receiving my first communion, so probably 1988 or 89, and the Cheese Factory is something I will forever remember as being such a cool, fun experience as a little kid. So its great so see the exterior of it here in this old VHS footage. My memory of the inside is somewhat foggy but I feel like there was a door in a floor, and the end opened out into the ball pit and there being a slide too. I had no idea until now the Cheese Factory was something in limited locations, so I consider myself lucky to have lived in the area and been able to see and experience.

WOW, this place was so elaborately themed with Cheese E. Street there!! It's like something you'd expect to find at Disneyland!! I wish Chuck E Cheese put this much effort into immersion and such today... it's so unspeakably bland compared to this location! Though I know not many locations had Cheese E. Street, so they weren't ALL this elaborately themed. But still, even things like the hand painted portraits of the characters and the Chuck E carpeting just add so much more personality to the place!! These days, you're lucky if there's even a picture of Chuck E himself on the walls, let alone any of the other characters!! Like, as a kid in the early 2000s who grew up near two Studio C locations, I didn't even KNOW the names of the other characters!! It's sad that there will likely never be another place like this, since immersion isn't really valued in restaurants anymore. The only place where you can get an experience that cool is Rainforest Cafe, which is in dire straits with only like 16 locations hanging on at this point.

i always remembered the game room having more games., then again i was pretty young.

I remember the atmosphere and lighting was more dimmer back then. And it was like a labyrinth of rooms much more fun too.

I want the pizza time theater back

Man I would give anything to see cec go back to this kinda stuff, though it’ll mostly likely never happen. A kid can dream, right?

That you did, my friend! The famous *Danvers 1989 Remodel Video* that fans have been clamoring to see all these years. Now everyone can enjoy this fantastic visit to the past thanks to your forthought to videotape the remodel! :)

wow, your classic Chuck E Cheese was even better then mine. I loved Chuck E Cheese been in the 80s and would have loved this one, to bad I love no where near MA. lol

This was my childhood chuck e cheese. I was just old enough to have memories of going to it after the cheese st attraction was removed for the 89 redesign. The mystery of the maze as my brother called it (or cheese st funhouse)and what was inside will always haunt me.

Very, very, very cool to see what it was like in 1989. I especially enjoyed seeing the King. How things have changed...

Nice to see what this place looked like way back when. I was seven in 1989, and my sister and I spent many birthdays at CEC. Not for the pizza, though. We never wanted to go for the food. We always wanted to go for the ball pit.

oh man, wish you'd gone through the cheese factory! This was my chuck e cheese as a child. Memories more weird than fond, but kitsch is kitsch.

Props to the cameraman for traveling back in time to film this!

Seeing this is so cool! I went to this location all the time back in the late 2000's when I was a kid, and it wasn't nearly as cool as it is in this video. It's awesome that the history of this place is preserved like this. If you still have it, I'd love to see the unedited footage of this (since it appears to be shortened).

Goddamn, never thought I'd find an upload of this video. I was there as a kid and experienced the Cheese Factory firsthand. Running through this replica house with was a hell of a way to start your youth. I remember it being quite large with windows on different floors, dimly lit and scary. Reddit has about thread on it. Guess it was called the Cheese E. Street. www.reddit.com/r/milwaukee/comments/1r57rb/chuck_e_cheese_cheese_e_street_funhouse_aka_the/

This brought me back into time... I miss the cheese factory and the ball pit.. I had so much fun as a child.. thanks for sharing the video.. I'm 30 years old now lol and I felt like 4 years old again :-)

THANK YOU!!!! This was the ChuckECheese's we went to as kids (Danvers location - we lived in Ipswich). I remember all of this like it was yesterday. Especially the Cheese Factory - which I got stuck in because I was scared and my mom had to come get me out near the skeetball machines.

This video means so much to me! I had my 9th birthday party there in the 80's!

This was my Chuck E. Cheese growing up. I could have been there that day! Thanks for sharing this. So much of this only existed in my memories! :)

Wow the cheese factory was awesome!! I remember there was only one in all of Pittsburgh. I don't know why other locations didn't have it!! It was creepy as much as it was fun!!! Thanks for the memories! I felt like I was 8yrs old again!

Shall Danvers Rest In Peace.

This was always my favorite of the Chuck E Cheese locations I visited as a child - because of the Cheese Factory fun house! That was something special. I had my 6th birthday here and was so much fun.

This is awesome! I wish chuck e cheese’s would’ve keeped it like this!

West mifflin was the only one with the cheese factory!. I wish someone had a video crawling through. I vaguely remember crawling through passages and going down a hole to get to the next level of passages.

Wow, CEC was like a freaking wonderland back then; really wish time travel was possible. I saw a rare glimpse of a cartoon B.B. Bubbles (I've seen cartoon versions of Madame Oink & Dolli Dimples, but never B.B.). Also love the Star Wars spoof poster.

Wow, this Chuck E Cheese had a different version of Whac-A-Mole! It had the one that Showbiz used to have, Chuck E Cheese looked so cool back then! I really wish I was born in the 80s, I'm 21 and I still love places like this! This is awesome!!!

I would give so much to go back to this era of cec

Cool knowing how legendary of a store Danvers was! I wish the Warwick Pizza Time Theatre had more stuff, cause all we currently have are a few photos and 2 videos!

I always thought the rails that separates the dinning room from the rest of the place was a smart idea. It kept kids from running though the tables areas. They took all those down and now when your eating you have kids and even adults passing by you all the time, coughing and sneezing. It’s pandemonium

This location will be missed 1983-2020

The Chuck E Cheese I grew up going to looked very similar to this one except for The Beagles instead of The King in the lounge.

I love how around the 6 minute point in the video when you’re showing us the animatronic show with the Pizza Time Players, we can see that people were actually interested in the animatronics back then!! I’m so glad that people would crowd around them at that time and that they actually appreciated them. It’s such a shame that people just don’t care about the animatronic shows the way that they used to, and it’s also a shame that the CEC animatronics are going the way of the dodo bird. I really hope that somehow they can save some of the animatronics and just forget about their 2.0 concept, but sadly I don’t think that’ll be happening. Oh well, what can we do about it other than remember and reminisce the good old days? Thanks for the video, it was extremely interesting to see what Chuck E. Cheese’s looked like back in the 80s when it was the Pizza Time Theater!!

I’m honestly surprised footage of this even exists. This is so cool

Love this video! If there's any more of it, especially better quality, I'd love to see it!

Song List: Office Montage: 9 To 5(1980) Chipmunk Adventure Theme(1987) Travel Music: Beetlejuice(1988) Way Out West: An American Tale: Fievel Goes West(1991)

I’m sad that I didn’t had the opportunity to see this. ;-;

I remember getting trapped in those tubes in the cheese factory by other kids and being in a complete panic, I remember part of it just being clear plastic on the wall so your parents could see you but, if there were lots of kids you’d get trapped easily.

Wow I went to the same store the other day and the difference is amazing

I barely remember when Chuck E Cheese looked like this. I was only 5 years old in 1989 =)

Interesting, also, on a side note. I'm pleasantly surprised that this comment section isn't flooded with FNAF stuff.

My god this reminds me of my childhood...this is the Chuck E. Cheese's I went to as a kid.

That was so amazing, incredible and wonderful when they show about the history of chuck e cheese 😍😎🤘👌👍🥰💖✨.

Wow I’ve been there in 2016 it’s very interesting to see how it looked like back then and it was the first chuck e chesse I’ve been to!

Pizza Time Theater era (1977-1987) - this looks good Early Chuck E Cheese’s Pizza era (1988-1991) - getting better Classic era (1991-2019) - really good Current era (2017-present) - somebody shoot me!

Thank you for this

so this is what my chuck’s used to look like... man i was born at the wrong times, wish i could have seen this for myself!

Wow... Danvers 2013 resembles Danvers 1989 more than you'd ever think! You can clearly see where things are now... ;)

Wow! There was a lot more to Chuck E. Cheese way back then there is now. Looks like miniature indoor theme park. I like the ambiance. I saw some of the most recent pics of this location when it was still open, and it has definitely changed! Looks like they busted out some walls and opened it up.

It's places like this that 20 or so years later you say 'what the hell happened that place?'-currently a memory ingrained in my mind from my childhood.

If this is the Chuck E Cheese that was located near the Liberty Tree Mall, this was my childhood location! I have vague memories of that location from the early/mid 2000s when i was a kid. They actually tore down that whole building sometime during the pandemic and built a Wine & Spirits extension for the Market Basket next door.

Anyone have detailed footage, images or (pray) blueprints of the Cheese Factory? Looking high and low for those for yeaaaars.

I still remember the CEC from back in the 80s I went to. it was located in a shopping center, the center of it. It had the regular glass doors for adults and a small one for kids to go through. as you entered, you would be in a long hallway and the sounds of music and video games could be heard up ahead. to the left was a hallway that led to the restrooms, offices and kitchen. to the right was a small lounge with the King in it. There were also a few table top arcade games in there like Burger time. As you walked further down the hallway, the right side wall had Swiss cheese designs on it. Cheese with holes in it. there was an entrance here to the arcade. Most of the ticket prize games were on this side of the arcade. further down the hall, on the left was the ordering counter was just a cheese decorated wall with benches along it. Further down the hallway on the right was another entrance to the arcade. this was the side that had all the new games, the ball pit and such. across this entrance in the hall was the pizza pickup area. and straight ahead the main dining area with the animatronics. I must have gone to this CEC many times and I never knew there was a small room under the stage. you couldn't really see the entrance. they had a very dark purple curtain that ran along the bottom of the entire stage and this also covered up the mousehole shaped doorway. I found out at a birthday party when some cousins showed it to me. inside was a black light. some time later they added another pick up window within the dining room. it was on the exact same corner as the pickup window that was in the hall. After it closed down they opened a Christian book store in it's place. I remember going in once and looking at the remnants of the CEC. to anyone that didn't know the place was once a CEC, they would never have never noticed. But what was left behind was an elevated platform. this area was the former ball pit which was surrounded by the classic video games. now they had this gazebo there in white drapes. the only thing that would let you know where the dining room was, was a portion of the left side of the wall that was still there.

Nearly the 90s. Music from the 70s. Adds up.

This would have been what Chucky cheese looked like when i first went...I dont remember any specfics except finally running out of tokens and being very depressed that I couldnt play games anymore. And yes the animatronic band creeped me out before FNAF.

Wow! I almost feel as if I'm there! 😄

Hey.....I know this video, I filmed it!

Sometimes I just wish I had a time machine

this looks like those fnaf vhs tape things but it brings me so much joy to see this

I would love to see more of this vintage footage posted. I know you said it was edited to show the areas of interest but you never know what would be of interest to someone so I hope someday you will post a more lengthy video!

Thanks uberbob, glad to hear you enjoy this. This the best i can do as far as picture quality, as the original tfootage was shot on a mid- 80s VHS video camera. These were notorious for not being able to adjust well in bright contrast lighting situations and dark interiors as you can plainly see. I have enhanced the images as best as i could using RU-vid*s digital enhancement tools, which give it a little more color when compared to the original version. :)

The Very First Chuck E Cheese Store Tour

I wonder how it would be like to be inside the pizza time theater and see madame oink and harmony howllet

It’s crazy that this chick e cheese has the Showbiz Pizza Place Movie Posters! I guess this was when Showbiz and Chuck E. Cheese partnered

There are so many changes

Wow this was such a long time ago

Your my video idol because this is the next section in my studies this era

What a shame we don't have Chuck E. Cheeses in the UK. This should be in this country

fun fact:nolan bushnell wasent only the creator or chucky cheese, but he also made atari.At 4:22 thats probly one of the games he made

0:55 is the PAL version of the opening score to the Chipmunk Adventure for those who dont know where it came from

I found it on google and it’s permanently closed but it had a good run as…perfection

Wow awesome

What the hell the song its making me cry but I i WANT TO GO to the pizza time theater but its 2020 pizza time theater this when it was open 1980 WHYYYY 😭😭😭😭😭😭

6:08 I had dream of being here but today was first time I saw this

Next to it on the right was a Kmart

HI Jalencec4. Yes, i have several more i hope to get converted and uploaded soon. Some more gems coming !

What is the song at the start? And the one around 3:36?

Do you know what music that was going on, when you showed the paintings. I think it's elevator music or it came out in a movie."

3:35 this song would make a great classic price is right cue.

This location had British rides by MKC Designs, the Rainbow Roundabout and the Mini Wheel; seen a the 3:41 to 3:44 mark.

Could you film a store tour of how Danvers looks now? It would be cool to see all the changes that have happened over the years. Oh and I almost forgot!! Leo Lion does danvers still have the closed off showroom or is it all opened up?

It’s weird that the 80’s Chuck E Cheese was even better than now usually it’s the opposite this is just making me wish I could live in the 80’s but no I was born on 2007 😐🙁

And where are the 3rd, 4th and 5th music scores from?

The song in the start is nostalgia

Does everyone remember the cupping/muffled smacking sound that the moving mouth parts of the animatronics used to make as they sang songs and spoke dialogues?

This location looks way better than the one in mystic view rd the one there doesn’t have as many rooms or animatronics it only has 1 Chuck E. Cheese bot and that’s it it’s a shame the one in Danvers had to change their animatronics and shut down this year im glad 2 years ago I got to go there and see munchs make believe band even tho they didn’t perform

You're welcome! What is the first and second music scores from?

Do you have more because your videos are my favorite!

What Was The First Song Used?

Guys I never been to this old place when I wasn't born.

Whats the name of the First Song?

Can someone tell me the names of each song

Oh and do they still have all the walkarounds if u would happen to know

What is the first song I have been searching for years.....

What is that music at the beginning