Mr P’s Classic Amusements, 10 High Street, Gravesend, Kent, 2015 • Depends on your definition of “classic” and “family entertainment”, really. The typeface is pure early 1990s (Remedy, designed by Emigre fonts in 1991).
Mr P’s Classic Amusements, 10 High Street, Gravesend, Kent, 2015 • Depends on your definition of “classic” and “family entertainment”, really. The typeface is pure early 1990s (Remedy, designed by Emigre fonts in 1991).
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With photos by Vici MacDonald and poems by Tamar Yoseloff, Formerly is a beautiful little chapbook which is just £8.00 online – you can buy it here
https://www.mrpsclassicamusements.co.uk/Gravesend-2009—2015.html
I’ve never been there, but it actually was a bit classic – they only had old machines that most other places had thrown away. ‘Family Entertainment Centre’ also sounds creepy but is essentially a licencing term that lets an arcade pay a lower rate of tax as long as they only have a majority of low value payouts (which old machines fit nicely into) or more commonly now where you win worthless tickets rather than any money at all – and I think you have to display the term prominently. In a bunch of not very nice places that arcades generally are, I’d have to tip my hat to Mr P and his remaining branches of ancient flashing chipboard wonders for ‘keeping it reel’. 😉
Very interesting, thank you for increasing the wholesomeness quotient of this establishment. It still looks a bit creepy when closed though!