The Last 80s/90s Chuck E Cheese About To Be Gutted
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Chuck E. Cheese (formerly known as Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre, Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza and simply Chuck E. Cheese's) is an American children’s family entertainment center chain founded in 1977 by Atari's co-founder Nolan Bushnell. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, each location features arcade games, amusement rides and musical shows in addition to serving pizza and other food items; former mainstays included ball pits, crawl tubes, and animatronic shows. The chain's name is taken from its main character and mascot, Chuck E. Cheese. The first location opened as Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre in San Jose, California. It was the first family restaurant to integrate food with arcade games and animated entertainment
The retro Chuck E. Cheese feels so much more comforting and fun. The new ones just feel like a soulless arcade.
As if Dave and Busters isn't souless enough... Truly an end of an era
@TennojiNesoberi Dave and Busters was decent I don't really know about it now
@@Jac735 Their arcade used to have an 80-90s aesthetic with neon lights along with a classy wooden vibe in the restaurant. Nowadays the arcade is nothing but modern while the restaurant looks any different than a Buffalo Wild Wings with generic sports memorabilia
I can agree it’s painful me growing up I grew up with the robot being programmed and I grew up with the ball pit now that’s all gone the robot doesn’t perform In shows he is just in random movements ball pit was removed when I was like 5 or 6
Couldn’t have said it better myself 🥲
It's hard to believe this is considered retro now. This is what my chuck e cheese looked like when I was growing up in the early 2000s.
@Rowdy Jr yeah I’m glad I got to grow up in late 2000s and early 10s good times
older people prob said the same thing when places got remodeled in the 80s
@Rowdy Jr yeah, but you could repeat that cycle all the wayback in history. People associate certain eras as the best usually because they were young. Everyone thinks their childhood was the best. Even today there are alot of pros to growing up with technology. It isn't all cons like the older generation that grew up without technology makes it out to be. All perspective.
@@gwenmloveskpopandmore I'm glad I got to grow up in the 90s and early 2000s.
@@SuperFlashDriver good for u
It’s a shame that they’re being forced to remodel. It’s so rare to see a location that hasn’t had any remodels at all! Still complete with the showroom and road stage. The animatronics are in immaculate condition compared to other locations. They should just let this one be 🥹
Sad but they know same store sales will likely increase with the remodel
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 I hope they get the new chuck model for the one by one stage :C I wanna cry but I'm 11 and I still love this place and it's sad that they are getting rid of them but chucky can't wait for the future because he thinks it will be better but it will be worse I got inspired by chuck to make my own place like his but it might have a downfall two 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 why chuck why he was so old he was to old to die why did they have to do it to him
It was technically remodeled from a PTT store but still hasn't remodeled since then.
I agree brings back memories when we used to take our kids to chuckie cheese
Isn't this a 2 stage?
I feel that every franchise deserves to have 1 original location that lets you step back into the past.
well we can be partners and create our own 50 60 70 80 90 food chain and go back in time all the time every store we open is old looking and best food and the costumer service of the old days
@superbanaan9 👍
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This country has no respect for the past always moving forwards
My old bud and I used to work at Chuck E Cheese back in the late 90's. They would throw the tickets away in the trash, just bags and bags of them. One night we swung by and gobbled up 3 trash bags full and went to another location and had a blast. We were not relegated to the bottom shelf. Not long after, they started shreading them.
That’s what my fraternal twin brother and I did, once. We nicked them from the trash when no one was looking and redeemed them.
I love a good scam that sticks it to corporations without their knowledge.
You’re the reason why they introduced the tap cards 🤣😝
Petition to have this Chuck E Cheese stay retro!
man, that pizza chef dude was really tearing it up on the drums...even though his hands were barely moving
lol I remember back in the day when I went to a chuck e cheese and saw the band the drummer was actually moving but maybe this one was not working right or something cause I remember the drummer was moving a lot more than that back in the 80's. But I get what you were saying though.
His name is pasqually, but they don't really take care of the animatronics well.
That’s Pasqualley
@@bretthibbs6083 even in the 90s and early 2000s he was much more capable of movement compared to what I saw from the video.
@Ponygirl385 Yeah, that's just the nature of restaurant animatronics.
There's actually a place in Mississippi called Smitty's Super Service Station, which is practically a museum for old 80s Chuck E. Cheese stuff. They even have all the old animatronic shows!
Yep always wanted to go they also have the showbiz pizza animatronics too and old merch/prizes from there
And rock afire explosion too.
@@Flicker_thefo0x yep
WHATT that’s so cool! I hope I can visit one day
Where in MS? That's my home state, and it seems like I've heard of this before...
Chuck E Cheese was created by Nolan Bushnell, the same man who co-founded Atari. I can't think of two more 1980s companies. Thanks for the memories.
Even though Atari is older than that. It was founded in 1972. Though it took them nearly a decade to gain full prominence. Even that didn't last long for them
Chuck E Cheese was also technically 70s. Late 70s as it started out in but still 70s regardless. In its early years, it was quite trippy from the video footage I saw. I wish time travel was possible so I could go to the first Chuck E Cheese in San Jose. I would so be all over their 70s arcade games from that era
He left Atari and founded CC because he had a strict rule about no human characters shooting or harming each other. That all went tits up when they released Outlaw for the Atari 2600...
Delorean
I wonder what Nolan Bushnel think about Chuck E. today?
Chuck E Cheese….soooo many great memories. The pizza was amazing, the shiny gold coins in the cups, the smell of the tickets, just the overall friendly chaotic atmosphere of kids running around was great . I love being a 90’s kid . So much fun . I wish I could go back lol
I know. I loved being a late 90s / early 2000s kid. I miss the gold coins and the tickets. The cups. The video Games were much better back in the day. The pizza was delicious. Now it’s so different and my location sucks sadly.
Wish I could go back to 2011 lol
You said it all…I was a 90’s kid too! Everything you said here was pure spot on👊
And for me I was as well watching the old 90’s era of PBS Kids and the old stuff was so fun I wish I could go back to 😢
"It looks delicious, but it's not." I'm dead.
If Kurt ever makes a highlight video, "Kurt's Top 10 Comments," that one definitely belongs in there--great deadpan delivery (at 3:46)
Is that their advertising catch phrase? “It looks delicious but it’s not”
I grew up in the apartments behind this Chuckee Cheese...We figured out how to get the big prizes as kids! We would go into their trash dumpster to get trash bags full of old tickets!! It took them about 6 months to catch on! 😂😂😂
I went to my local Chuck E Cheese for a friends birthday party in 1987 and they had an animatronix dressed as Elvis, even sang his songs.. Haha, thanks for unlocking that memory.
Sorry, I can’t resist…
*WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87?!?!?*
Ah king! I love that animatronic. He is really cool when kept up.
@@jacksongibbs8998 I get it. In the games, it happened but that was in October. This person could have gone say in the summertime in 1987. But in real life, no animatronic in the 80s was that advanced enough to literally harm a child. So there's that.
Go to Volo Museum which is North of Chicago and that animatronics is actually preserved there!!!!
@@jacksongibbs8998HA, makes some sense
The animatronics work surprisingly well! Great video!
never thought I’d see you here
“Lend a hand” was such a great message. Only 80’s and 90’s would have that awesome message.
Yeah although they have similar songs don’t worry.
This is a new CEC showtape. CEC shows from the 80's and 90's are different and usually cover already existing songs.
I like that song! This is the first time I ever heard it!
@@mojo3318 yeah it came out in 2017 I think
@@gwenmloveskpopandmore Also, I like the bangs in your profile pic!
It's nice how you could get to see the very last classic original 80s and 90s chuck e cheese great child hood memories before it's gone forever
This is depressing. Fond memories of having one of my earliest and best birthday's there. Thanks for documenting it brother. The future definitely sucks lol.
i’m happy the internet exists and even if i can’t visit places from my childhood again it’s documented here. thank you!
This is sad. Can’t imagine what the remodel will look like. The McDonalds restaurants are like cardboard boxes today. The charm has been stripped out of almost everything in modern culture.
That's a bit what I'm afraid of too, because McDonalds in the 90's didn't look that far off from this either with the booth seats, the specific style of framed pictures and tiling. There's so little care and fun put into the construction of a lot of places and they often get bland, so I pray Chuck E. Cheese has something fun here while being modernized.
That's what I hate about modern design and remodels. They strip the fun from everything and make it all bland and boring. It isn't "sleek and modern", it's depressing. What kid wants to play in a big grey box? I feel bad for the youth of today.
@@meisterfrau99 exactly. And the food isn’t good enough to not have any of the charm. They are really stupid. I hope something changes.
@@meisterfrau99 Hell, I feel sad for adults!
We just had a remodel at some of our Chuck-E-Cheeses and I went to one on my birthday a week ago and I was so disappointed that they didn't have the animatronics in there all they have now is just a great big video wall like a 30 ft wide LED video screen and then they have a lighted dance floor and there is absolutely no old school charm left at Chuck e anymore
I still ordered my pizza though and ate it there because I wanted to support the restaurant and I have never been to a Chuck-E-Cheese during one of my birthdays ever growing up but certainly wished I would have but I did eat there growing up
They're taking away everything that made Chuck e cheese what it was all about as far as the themes and all
I’d honestly be interested in purchasing some of those iconic pictures.
It's sad our childhood memories are going away 😢
Yep that’s why I’m gonna try to enjoy my local while I can Pineville
That was my old Chuck E. Cheese in Reseda. But in the 80s it was dark inside and more arcade than restaurant. Had my birthday there once. I can remember that you could crawl under the stage. I do recall a major renovation making Chuck E. Cheese look bright and airy like in this video. Even though I was only eight or nine, it marked an end of a era losing a lot of it's cool factor.
Do you know Perry Caravello?
yeah dude.. the Pizzatime Theater years, circa 1980-1985
This nearly brought tears to my eyes, and I thank you so much for uploading this! I'm really hoping at least some of that stuff ends up preserved somewhere.
Not gonna lie, I got a little choked up seeing the old dining room. Made me think about me having my 5th birthday party there, and playing hide and seek in the Sky Tubes. So sad that the kids of today will never get to experience what the 80s/90s kids got to. Because we had alot of fun
What an amazing time capsule. Those were definitely better times in so so many ways. Thanks for documenting this place in its final days.
There’s actually a Chuck E Cheese in Bell Gardens California that still has the robots that perform! It’s pretty cool especially with the robots being discontinued in a way with the newer Chuck E Cheeses.I don’t know the full history of it, though I do know it was built in 1982.It’s a pretty cool and has lots of memories.
I remember walking up to the counter with a big ass roll of tickets. Everyone fighting to get to the front of the line. The colorful lights everywhere and sounds. The smell of pizza and quarters.
Did you happen to ask the manager if they were going to be salvaging the old signage? It would be cool if you were able to get your hands on one of those wooden Chuck E. Cheese signs!
When I saw the Chuck E Cheese in the title I wasnt sure it would be for me...WOW was I wrong...that brought back so many memories, not just about the restaurant but all the fun times with friends and family over the years! Again THANK YOU Kurt for helping us to remember the best years of our lives! 👻🙏🏼💙
I remember wanting a balloon 😅
I worked at C.E.C when I was in Highschool -92 and 93. I worked at the one where the massacre happened and worked with Nathan Dunlap. This C.E.C had so many similar things as to what ours had - like the little upper level in the showroom. On Saturdays I used to come in early and get the salad bar ready - and it was all fresh salad and cut up veggies and fruits. Not all this bagged crap they have now. This brought back so many memories - good and bad. The booths too - same ones. It's like going back in time! Thank you for filming this!
I can't believe that place is so unchanged. I only went to Chuck E Cheese on birthdays, so maybe a dozen times growing up? That made it special. My game was Skee-Ball. Thanks for sharing, brings back fond memories!
Ah it hurts 😢💔
You actually care about the brand and not for money?
Hi Arcade craniacs! We are your fans of the characters from Skibidi Toilet movie. Do you have any ideas for this video to watch your show?
@@AlexsStopMotionAdventuresHe cares for himself and the money only. Not his fans at all.
@@DrewTheDisneyManiac I knew the truth, he doesn’t care about Chuck E. Cheese’s, he only cares about milking him and his band until they’re dry.
@@AlexsStopMotionAdventures Yep! I’m going to be honest I met him and his ex girlfriend at Knott’s Berry Farm back in 2019 before COVID hit. I thought they were really nice and stuff then when they were filming a video I saw them making it clickbait and he said oh none of this is true it’s staged and it’s like wow you really screwed up big time. I should of recorded it because then the whole community of The Craniacs would’ve known the truth.
Another restaurant that is near by that has not changed either is the Shakey's on Devonshire and Reseda. It looks exactly the same from the 80s and on. Really cool to see!
It's changed. They took out the elevated seating next to the front windows at least a decade ago.
They used to have an automatic nickelodeon music machine and an arcade
@@sonnyday6727 I remember the arcade machines. As well as the hay or saw dust on the floor with the self playing piano.
My local one has been like this one all my life until a few months ago when it got remodeled. This video brings so much nostalgia
Seeing those animatronics brought back so many memories when I was a kid back in the early nineties. Now that's classic Chuck E cheeses.
Thank you for so much filming and posting this, it's such a rare blast from the past and to see it in such good and unchanged condition fills me nostalgia!
Never thought in a million years that I'd ever see the animatronics from Chuck E. Cheese's again in my lifetime. My primary thought while watching this video is that someone needs to save every single one in their entirety along with everything else that's on the stage and put it all in a museum. I'm almost tempted to take a long distance road trip and see this place while it's still vintage and then stick around while Chuck E. Cheese's is being gutted. Most of that memorabilia will more than likely end up in a dumpster. Great video!
Nope, employees are told to destroy everything then send it to corporate to make sure its destroyed then they replace it with a cec live stage.
As a 90s kid, I can't tell you how much I resonated with you saying "run away from the future and run to the past." I miss the 90s so much and wish I could go back. Times used to be better.
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My parents would take us to that Chuck E Cheese, every Friday. So nostalgic 😢.. I took my son to the West Hills, CA recently and it didn't look like Chuck E Cheese, inside anymore. I remember when they had arcades also.
miss those days...I love analog stuff the older I get
Thank you so much for sharing this! Those old animatronics are what make Chuck E Cheese unique. It's too bad they are tearing all this out, it looks much better than the updated restaurants. It would be cool to have it preserved. I know I would travel to see a functioning old school Chuck E Cheese that is also a museum!
Well Smitty’s Super Service in Mississippi is close enough
What bummed me out was when they removed the pizza time theater. It was a dark room and stage. I also remember the underground tunnel below the stage. .
It's not a theater anymore. Sad
That tunnel became a source of nightmares for my dreams as a kid.....Don't know why nothing bad ever happened.
@@yodasmomisondrugs7959 this is what I found. I totally remember the strobe light....
Mr. Munch's Magic Madhouse was a maze underneath the Balcony Stage. The entrances were under Mr. Munch and Pasqually. The tunnels contained strobe lights and other effects. Beginning in the late 1980s, most locations began to seal the entrances because of poor conditions inside the tunnels, which were too small for employees to manage efficiently.
@@blueghost4121 Yeah I remember it being kinda gross in there or "musty" so your info backs up this weird memory I have of a super duper fun place as a kid. Wish I could be a little guy again sometimes and relive those moments for the first time again. So much fun with my little Goonie friends. The 80's rocked!
@@yodasmomisondrugs7959 I was born in 78 so the memories are fuzzy. Which means they started covering the entrances in the late 80s. So I was probably 6yrs old ish
@@blueghost4121 Same it was 86 or 87 the first time I went and the following year I don't remember it being there. Had a friend in grade school who ALWAYS had his birthday at the CC here on Sunrise Blvd here in Sacramento. I think its still open but I haven't been to that part of town for a few years now. Used to be a Showbiz Pizza literally right next to it. Only got to go in there once but it was captivating to me no doubt.
I was just going to post that this Chuck E Cheese is giving me massive '90s vibes. I grew up in the '80s and went to many birthday parties at Chuck E Cheese over the years, and ours looked nothing like this! I remember ours being dark inside, and there was a small mouse-shaped door next to the regular door for kids to use. There was a disco room next to the stage, which was small and only lit up by a disco ball and strobe lights. The games and rides were very different. The games were pretty much Skee Ball, hoops, and arcade games, and I only remember a few rides, like a quarter merry-go-round, a car ride with Chuck E (similar to what was shown in this video, only with a classic-looking Chuck E), and this circular thing that you would sit in a seat and it would rotate you in a circle up and down.
Great call on the small mouse door! Totally forgot about that. And yes, the one I went to in Florida was dark. I recall the rooms being much more separated and not one big open space. This video is definitely late 90's early 2000's NOT what they looked like in the 80's.
Thank you for making this video! This location was my home location where I personally had a few birthday parties there myself in the mid 1980s-1990s. The stage used to have a crawl space/play area under it for little kids, and there used to be an animatronic of The Warblettes on the top left corner shelf by the stage. It was always a treat to visit in later years and see the spoof posters and retro signage. It would be awesome if those things were kept for museum pieces. I've always wanted one of the spoof posters!
I'm around the same age as you and went to the same location. I think there also might of been some decorative railing or polls above the seats that are against the back wall of the show room. If you still live around the area you might ask them for one of those posters.
Yeah I remember the mouse hole under the stage where kids were able to play. the walls inside were green and it would flash that it would leave your silhouette or shadow imprinted on the walls
Wow I have a memory of this crawlspace too but it was vague and I was never sure if it had been real until I read your comment. I think I went there around 1984. Thank you! :)
Would anybody happen to remember or know if the side room in this video with the kiddie games used to have an animatronic show? Not the main show with Chuck E, Jasper, etc, but other characters? At 5:09, the framing around the Chuck E pop art piece looks like maybe it could've been part of a stage at some point in time.
@@walruslovex3 every room used to have a small show. They ran off tokens hippocampus dollie believe was her name.
This place didn't look anything like the Chuck's I went to as a kid, but that was also back in the late 80's to 1990. The place was all orange and brown with classic arcade games, fun house activities, half bodie animatronic figures with way more nightmare fuel, and cool prizes you could actually win. My best birthday memories was there in sping of 1990, got enough tickets for a Crash Test dummy doll and got my first Gameboy.
I remember going there so many times back in the day! Crazy they haven't updated it!!! Great memories and I hope those pieces will be kept in a museum somewhere.
I could see why they didn't update it it looks pretty good in there
There’s a place in Mississippi that’s a old CEC and showbiz pizza called Smitty’s Super Service
@@mfhalston yeah it’s bad
Oh wow I have actually really wanted to see what the vintage chunky cheese stage show looked like again because I remember it being such a big deal as a kid in the 80’s . I can’t believe this locations has slipped through the cracks as long as it has without a remodel . You really took us back in time with this one MrCrucial
Back in 2020, they closed an old school chuck e cheese near my house in El Monte. They gave away everything. Benches/booths were just sitting outside. Wasnt able to get my hands on anything but maybe they’ll do that with this one.
I doubt it cause a lot of them are just throwing everything away and there’s nothing they can do about it
Mostly getting thrown out now
This was a great video! I've been to Chuck E Cheese's when I was little! The place in my town use to have that old logo with the mascot. There were no frames there. One of my former co-workers went there with her kids and she said that the animatronics there were removed because people found them creepy. I never did. In fact, my sibling and I used to get on stage with them and I acted like an animatronic. That place in my town has changed a little.
It sucks that the one in yours is getting remodeled! I've never heard any of the songs Chuck E sang. I liked the first one! And the advice from a wise man sounded good. I do want to be happy🙂. By the way, I noticed the Jurassic Park arcade. I played it somewhere else.
Thank you for the video! I enjoyed it! And nice intro!
I remember this place as a child .... GOOD TIMES!!
just because they are doing a remodel doesn't mean all this stuff is going away. This is the very fabric that made Chuck E Cheese what it is. Unless they are putting something different here they will most likely put it all back. Truthfully I thought all this places were gone forever so thanks for sharing this day with us.
Wait, so is the remodel they’re talking about in the vid not the 2.0 remodel they’ve been doing??
They are putting in something different. A video screen.
I really miss these old Chuck E Cheese themed restaurants. My childhood gone 😢
😢 bummer it’s going to be remodeled but glad you got some sweet footage, especially of the show!
This was a great video. Made me feel good again. 80s/90s was the best and I miss it dearly
Man this brings back so many memories, we miss the coins🪙, and the coupons one would get on the newspaper 🗞️, and the tickets 🎫🎟️.
There used to be a crawl space under the stage that was carpeted which you were allowed to play in. There was also a separate room that had the dog band animatronics. Their pizza is pretty good. There was also a Bullwinkle's across the street. I only went there once, but I remember it was pretty awesome.
I LOVED the Northridge Bullwinkle’s too!! I had a birthday party there once. I still have my table reservation sign! They turned it into a China Buffet. Still has a lot of the original architecture inside and out. Would be a great video for Kurt to do
that crawl space had the strobe light going and I hated it in there haha! I always had to get my little brother for my mom in there. it would be kids going crazy in there
I remember the crawl space and the extra room. Made me think this wasn't the same one I went to as a kid in like 1987-91 but I don't know what other ones there were in the valley.
Thank you for making this. So many memories, im glad this was my childhood
Wow, it's really clean inside. I never went to one as a kid. I once went into one to get some change here in Reno and it looked like a plasma center on the wrong side of town.
Im also from reno i used to love going there as a kid!
I can't believe I found this video. I'm 31 now and this is the exact Chuck E Cheese's I used to go to when I was a kid and still lived in Los Angeles.. So many memories here from schoolmate birthday parties, friend sleepovers and just nights my father and I wanted to get away, mom would come with us here and there, but this was my dad's and I's thing. He'd always go for their salad bar lol!
~ On a side note this place used to have epic arcade SEGA cabinet games. I'll never forget the Jurrasic Park moving seat shooter as well as this one game that you were on a mine cart and had to push the mine throttle up and down! XD
~ Also all of the crawling tubes and other fun physical obstacle courses are gone! Chuck E Cheese's is like GameStop. A dying breed.
Thanks for making this video!!! They will destroy everything unfortunately unless you go to the dumpster and try and save some stuff. I’ll pay you if you do!!! 🎉❤😊 this was my childhood location! They used to have The King in the back room called “The Lounge” and also a hippo at one time called “Dolli Dimples”
I even remember one time I went and The King was dressed like Michael Jackson! 😮❤ It originally had a balcony stage and a ball pit too. Under the balcony stage was a maze and had a strobe light too. It was wild! Glad you took my tip and made such a great video. RIP CEC Northridge
He should talk to the manager again or even the owner if possible and see if he can get some stuff.
yeah please save some stuff! I would if I was remotely near it
Loved going to chuck e cheese when I was a little kid! The one in my area was remodeled in the late 90s!
i went to this Chuck E Cheese about 3 years ago for a friends childs birthday. the little kiddo wore a turtle neck style shirt and just opened the bottom of his shirt to catch the flying tickets when he was inside that air ticket machine contraption. since it was a turtle neck, nothing escaped once it entered from the bottom of his shirt. he used it like a net catching butterflies. i dont recall how many tickets he caught, but he basically caught every single one that was in there.
Very Smart kid.
Amazing video!!! So happy you were able to show as much as you can to help preserve the memories and keep them alive in the digital age. This is the ONLY raw video from the modern era (within the last 10 years or even 15 years) where I've seen the animatronics in action. Wonderful tour and wonderful way to preserve this in history. Love the video!!! ❤. This needs to be archived!!!
R.I.P. Charles Entertainment Cheese
the last time i saw the animatronics play was back around 2004. This brought back memories of how packed it used to get with kids. It feels weird seeing the band play with no kids sitting around to watch
Yeah most kids nowadays are too scared of them and no wonder the ceo said kids stopped looking at them years ago but I think that’s wrong
@@gwenmloveskpopandmoreI slightly blame five nights at Freddy’s for getting so popular. Oh well 🤣
@@asimplepie2279 yeah ig so
@@asimplepie2279 well I actually meant to say little kids lol but yeah
People say that it's the animatronics' fault...I'd blame the damn prices. Before people could afford to take their kids to Chuck E Cheese's because it wasn't ridiculously expensive as it is now. My Mom and I took my 2 little cousins there last June and I kid you not, it was almost $100 dollars for us 2 adults, 2 kids, and only 30 minutes of playtime. If they would make the prices more affordable I know for a fact they would be packed like they were back in the 90s.
Amazing its lasted that long, big chain businesses usually update their stores constantly to remain interesting and relevant to the public.
Thank you for showing this. Memories so awesome. I use to go to chuckie cheeses in the city of Bell. I should visit. Positive song. Love it. ❤️
I really hope the relic museum in Van nuys gets wind of this and is able to negotiate some of the memorabilia.
Good idea, I was thinking the same.
Thank you so much! My wife can't stop smiling. A lost memory of her teenage years
run as far away from the future as possible seems like a good idea
In the early 80s, the walls and ceilings were painted black or very dark colors. I remember the stage, maze, arcade, ball pit, even a strobe light room. Sometime in the late 80s or early 90s, they lightened them up, like the one in the video.
Thanks for taking me back once more. I still remember the strobe light room under the stage. But yeah, this location has it all.
I remember the strobe too!!! ❤
Thank you for filming this in preserving a piece of history
I been at that place few time, sad to see it go, you are right don't go to the future 80's was a great decade, great memories.. Thank you Kurt
It's always my pleasure. You should go stop by and check it out one last time.
@@80sLife By the way, if you didn't know many Chuck E. Cheese locations still have these same animatronics but Northridge is one of the last Pizza Time Theatre decorated locations.
Petition to have this Chuck E Cheese stay retro!. The animatronics work surprisingly well! Great video!.
Wow, this was great! Hopefully the manager will let you get some of the wall signs or anything they don't want.
I used to go to this location all the time when I was a kid!! Every now and then I go with my nephew and it gives me such a nostalgic feeling, I don’t know how to describe it. Sad to think about a piece of my childhood leaving :(
You could always ask them what they're doing with the wall displays, etc., if they're just going to end up in a dumpster they might let you have some before that happens.
CEC has a policy on that anyway and they’re not allowed to sell old stuff
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I knew this looked familiar!! I pass by this almost every day.
You missed the sign that said “ For the courtesy of all our patrons, please turn off your beeper”
I remember many birthday parties at this place. I actually went to one for my cousin a while ago before the remodel. I remember I saw it completely remodeled one day and thought “Cool, my local CEC was getting a remodel.” I didn’t know they were gonna remove the animatronics. I’m sad that I didn’t get a proper goodbye, and will miss the classic era of CEC
So cool to see this! Being 48 years old and growing up in the 80s, we didn't have Chuck E. Cheese's yet where I grew up in West Texas. We had Showbiz Pizza and Pistol Pete's Pizza. Both had the same animatronic shows, pizza and lots of video games. My favorite places as a kid. Thanks for the memories.
I remember this location as a kid. Good times were had. They also had a similar kind of place nearby called Bullwinkle's. They closed down along time ago.
I was an east coast, suburban patron of Chuck E Cheese (early-to-mid eighties -- and more early than mid -- hahah) and haven't been in one for decades, but what strikes me the most about this survey is the brightness of this facility. Ours was darkened and sort of carnivalesque in a macabre, early eighties "arcade" kind of way -- so un-brightly lighted. This example seems much "friendlier"/safer, not that I felt consciously concerned back in the day, etc. I very much enjoyed. (I also remember that the room all parents sat in looked like "the lost souls room" from Beetlejuice -- exhausted, miserable adults hunched over booth tables...)
Wow that sounds creepy
I have not been to my local chuck e cheeses in a few months because it's like an hour away but I do think it still has animatronics. I really hope they don't take them away, that place raised me!
Thank you for the heads up, Kurt. I live down the street and always wanted an excuse to go there. Will they let a 58 year old man dine there alone? Did you get any guff going in there?
lol...They used to have a rule about that. Not sure if it still stands.
@@someguy9778 Thank you sir. I will drag my 20 year old son with me whether he likes it or not! Don't want to be kicked out. Enjoy your day!
I think it depends on your location. I'm an adult and I've never had a problem with going to mine, but it's really up to the individual manager and what their policy is. There's videos on RUclips of groups of adult guys going to chuck e cheese and having a great time, I'd be surprised if they turned you away.
I’m a 90’a kid so I remember the skater chuckle cheese and went I went there after so many years to my niece birthday party, I felt some slight depression because everything looked different. I felt like I was in the twilight zone or something but I’m happy that the new generation can enjoy their chuckE Cheese. My son had so much fun with his cousins so that’s all that matters. We had our chuckE Cheese and now it’s their turn to have fun.
This one looks just like the Chuck E Cheese in Ventura. It has all of the animatronics, TV, and the stage is the same. So no worries, you can relive your childhood birthday memories up here with us. And all of the characters even work too!
DOES IT STILL HAVE THE COOL OLD SIGNS
@@rouge4736 no
Wow! Except the for the missing curtains, the stage show is in great shape. Even the small Chuck E head above the stage winks at the end of the show.
Thanks for making this video. It brings back some great memories. I used to work at a chunk e cheese back in the 80s and it takes me back. I used to go into work about an hour early and play free video games until my shift started. Working there was definitely my most favorite job ever. 15 years old, all the food, ice-cream, cake, drinks, and tokens you want. We had pool tables and about 30 arcade games there. Thanks again for the memories.
No more 80/90's here, sadly.... 'Interior and exterior finishes are being updated. Interior work includes a full restroom remodel, new carpet, floor and wall tile at the counters, new furniture and décor, ceiling mounted TV's, video wall, recessed LED dance floor, floor outlets, USB wall outlets, lighting, video wall framing, and interior painting. Exterior work includes removal of accent wall tile, stucco patching and exterior painting.'
Every kid's birthday party when I was in kindergarten (1988) was at the Chuck E cheese in Brick NJ. We went to the location in 2006 and nothing changed. That was 17 years ago so who knows what it looks like or if it is even still there?
Looked it up: yup still there ... nope not the same look
Swej everywhere!
From what I understand, they were receiving complaints that some of the adults attending birhday parties felt they needed more area to fight in. Therefore, they are just moving the arcade games farther apart to make more room for haymakers and hair pulling.
Someone should have acknowledged this comment 😅
Arcades and Pizza was a dream for every kid back in the days. We had some amazing stuff back in the 80’s for sure.
80s we’re just a better time man :(
This breaks my heart, how could they, everything about everything there is perfect and they are just gonna ruin it
This gives me massive nostalgia!!! I wish they kept it as is! I’m so glad we got to see the animatronic show! Thank you for filming! ❤
thank you for doing this - this made me so happy and sad
I recently went to the gigantic 3 level Chuck E Cheese here in East San Jose, CA for my lil' nephews b day and it was on and crackin'! I'm tellin you this place was absolutely packed lol I was just comin down off a shroom trip too so it was very surreal!! Hate to see that one in Reseda lose the old aesthetic.
3? There 2 😂
Oops!
@@demisemedia the 3rd floor is storage
I remember as a kid every restaurant we went to (just about) we’d hear “smoking or non smoking?”. Wild to think now about my mom smoking IN A RESTAURANT. But it was so normal. Her asking for an ashtray if one wasn’t on the table. And I was born in 95 so it wasn’t even THAT long ago.
Once again I am jealous of where you grew up. Not that we didn't have Chuck E Cheese in the Vancouver BC area (where I grew up) but I don't remember the ones we had being so bright and decorated so "80's like". Granted I am a bit older than you (when you were learning to skateboard in 1987.......I was 21 😬) and most of my experiences at CEC were from when I would be invited to my nephew"s (who is right around your age from what I can guess) birthday parties (so my brother would have an adult to talk to).
The animatronic band in the one I went to never sang anything original. Just Beatles and Elvis hits.
Wow, this really takes me back to simpler times. I can believe I was one of the last generations to see these animatronics live.😭