Re: Pictures of Joel's Penny Arcade

Nice one, Joel.
Is that a Lunar Lander in an Asteroids cabinet ? ;-)

Greets, traunStaa

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Von: "Rosenzweig, Joel B" <joel.b.rosenzweig@intel.com>
An: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Gesendet: Montag, 04. Dezember 2000 16:21
Betreff: VECTOR: Pictures of Joel's Penny Arcade

> Hi all,
>
> Some of you have asked to see pictures of my basement arcade. My new son
> was on his way any day and I wanted to be able to share pictures of him
with
> the family, so I decided to get some "real" internet access from home and
> some space on the web to share some photos. My son arrived on
Thanksgiving
> day, so now I had an opportunity to put together a website with some
> pictures of the boy and the arcade. :-) How convenient.
>
> Visit: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze25r6t and select Joel's Penny
> Arcade from the featured links. I built this room over the course of
about
> 6 months, working on it in my spare moments after work and on the
weekends.
> I started it the first week of July of 1999, and finished the first week
of
> January, 2000. What you'll see are the result of 40+ trips to Home Depot,
> lots of work, and a lot of fun. These pictures were taken when the arcade
> was just completed. A few machines were added since these pictures were
> taken, but the room looks essentially the same now.
>
> A lot of people ask about the neon sign. I had this custom made by a guy
> named Howie Cohen, who runs a shop called Just Neon, in Utica, NY. FYI,
his
> address is http://www.borg.com/~hcohen/ if anyone is interested in
> contacting him for your own custom neon work. My wife's name is Penny, so
> the name works out very well. Without her, it probably would have been
> Joel's Arcade. :-) My brother designed the art for the sign after I gave
> him the theme. "I want a PAC-MAN ghost ... BIG... BLUE!" He ran with
that,
> and several iterations later, we came up with the art for the sign shown.
> You've got to see it turned on in real life. The colors are amazing - the
> photos simply do not capture the real glow. (Yes, you can tell that I
> really like the sign.)
>
> Enjoy the pictures.
>
> Joel-
>
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Received on Mon Dec 4 12:14:45 2000