This is amazing. I have vivid memories of playing in the cheese crawl as a 2/3 year old. I also remember those birds singing on the side and missed them when they changed the stage. Great footage!
My mom told me at chuckecheese one-time that she could go into a little back room and go backstage which I think she was describing the cheese crawl and the lights would flicker like it did and it was amazing. So I looked at Chucky while he was the only one on the stage, and I said to myself I wonder what it would be like back then. Then this amazing video cane out and now my question is answered!
omg thank you so much for posting this...i really thought i imagined that this existed because no one else i know remembers it and no one had video of it.. but i swear i am scarred for life by it.. i was in it and there was a trap door in the floor that was open and i almost fell in because it was so friggen dark in there..it was probably some sort of entrance for repairs and left open by mistake .. i still have nightmares occasionally about it and im 33.. i was probably like 5 or maybe younger at the time
im 33 too and remember it... we had an urban legend about the one in mattydale, NY... that the stage had collapsed on the tunnel or something and I used to think about that. I do remember being in there though and feeling claustrophobic. I could never find out if that was really true but as I got into this stuff you realize they just updated the stage...
No prob! Btw, do you know why it closed? I thought it was because this one (and the other one on ridge road) wanted to get a fresh new restart and they both moved but that was just an assumption. Plus I doubt it they wanted a new store because they remodeled two years before closing.
This is the only information I have concerning the closing: "Good-bye, Mr. Cheese: Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre closed its Penfield restaurant last week and auctioned the fixtures Friday. But rumors of its Greece location's demise are untrue, says its owner. Timothy Kolb said that while competition has hurt the local franchise, he hopes that a consolidation and a reorganization will allow the Beach Bowsers and The King to continue their act in Monroe County. The Beach Bowsers, a take off on the Beach Boys, and The King a.k.a. Elvis are mechanical figures that serenade patrons at the popular children's restaurants." - Democrat and Chronicle, September 22, 1996
Thank you, thank you, for posting! This was the exact Chuck E Cheese I went to as a kid. I’ve been looking for a video on it for years. Hell, I might be in the crowd. We went there way too much when I was a kid.
There was one just like this back then in Alexandria, Virginia (right outside Washington, D.C.). I remember going through those holes, into the little tunnel/hallway under the stage. There was a little set of 2-3 carpeted stairs that went up at the end of the hallway, and sort of a picket fence you could look through. I think there was also a little door that was closed off. I have heard that there was supposed to be strobe lights, black lights and crazy stuff under there, but I think they must've stopped running that stuff by the time I was there in the mid-to-late 80s. Also, those flags up high on the wall in the showroom would wave periodically, and there were animal paws and other parts on one part of the wall that would clap and move around.
There's a place in Mississippi called "Smitty's Super Service" that has the old "Rock-Afire Explosion" show from Showbiz Pizza and a lot of the old Chuck E. Cheese's stuff and I just saw the wall of moving animal parts in one of the pictures on their Facebook page, so I know I didn't imagine it.
awesome! yeah I went to the Mattydale one outside of Syracuse. We had an urban legend that the cheese tunnel had collapsed or something.. not sure if ours looked quite the same. but yeah same setup in that era.. Every time I see video it's not with the lights off.. and I remember with this style lightning it made it really intense and scary as a child.. Location was huge.. like even The King was in a whole separate area.. then there was like a dining room that had a projection screen for old movies.. those awesome lighted tunnel corridors to each area.. then it had those animal paws on the wall that clapped. The modern ones really.. suck compared to this.
I remember going to the Mattydale one at this same time as well. I wish I could remember which address it was located. I also remember going to Schwitz’s as well with their seasonal animatronics in the entrance and in the front of the store - including that large monster animatronics at Halloween. I wonder what happened to them.
my childhood O_O BTW..O..M..G..I'm 34 now and i have vivid memories of there being like some sort of fun house thingy on the stage where you could crawl into it in the 80s...WOW. this is the first footage i have seen that i proves i am not crazy! I didnt imagine it! it was called the cheese crawl! Never knew it was called that. I used to goto the Chuck e Cheese in greece.
I'm from Syracuse so we had the Mattydale location ( which was amazing and like HUGE ) like The King had his own lounge area... then there was another area with like a movie screen? that played old movies for adults or something.. the ball pit and arcade ( but like eventually they tore down the big ball pit for this above ground swimming pool looking thing ) and there were these tunnels that went from the kitchen to the dining room. The arcade was pretty huge ... but I remember the "cheese crawl" I just dont remember if we had the regular balcony stage or one with holes in it... or if the carpet was made to look like cheese underneath. I think after that we got like the porch rocker stage? it may have been the house where pasqually and munch are behind the windows for some reason. But yeah the Syracuse one was pretty mega and theres no footage of it. I'm wondering if this is the same franchise operator though. Like they werent THAT common. Anyway there was an urban legend at our location that the cheese crawl / tunnel collapsed on a kid and I used to picture how scary it would be to come face to face with like Jasper falling on you.
This is amazing. I have vivid memories of playing in the cheese crawl as a 2/3 year old. I also remember those birds singing on the side and missed them when they changed the stage. Great footage!
Nice! Birds were the Warblettes. Were they black or white?
My mom told me at chuckecheese one-time that she could go into a little back room and go backstage which I think she was describing the cheese crawl and the lights would flicker like it did and it was amazing. So I looked at Chucky while he was the only one on the stage, and I said to myself I wonder what it would be like back then. Then this amazing video cane out and now my question is answered!
omg thank you so much for posting this...i really thought i imagined that this existed because no one else i know remembers it and no one had video of it.. but i swear i am scarred for life by it.. i was in it and there was a trap door in the floor that was open and i almost fell in because it was so friggen dark in there..it was probably some sort of entrance for repairs and left open by mistake .. i still have nightmares occasionally about it and im 33.. i was probably like 5 or maybe younger at the time
im 33 too and remember it... we had an urban legend about the one in mattydale, NY... that the stage had collapsed on the tunnel or something and I used to think about that. I do remember being in there though and feeling claustrophobic. I could never find out if that was really true but as I got into this stuff you realize they just updated the stage...
I feel bad for you guys that warm to close. Thankfully I dodged a bullet not being born
omg this is a claustrophic nightmare for me
Nice video once again! I'm a CEC nerd so I know this video is from Fall 1988. The Fall '88 show is playing. Thanks for uploading these videos, again.
Big Chuck Thank you for the information!
No prob! Btw, do you know why it closed? I thought it was because this one (and the other one on ridge road) wanted to get a fresh new restart and they both moved but that was just an assumption. Plus I doubt it they wanted a new store because they remodeled two years before closing.
This is the only information I have concerning the closing: "Good-bye, Mr. Cheese: Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre closed its Penfield restaurant last week and auctioned the fixtures Friday. But rumors of its Greece location's demise are untrue, says its owner. Timothy Kolb said that while competition has hurt the local franchise, he hopes that a consolidation and a reorganization will allow the Beach Bowsers and The King to continue their act in Monroe County. The Beach Bowsers, a take off on the Beach Boys, and The King a.k.a. Elvis are mechanical figures that serenade patrons at the popular children's restaurants." - Democrat and Chronicle, September 22, 1996
OK Thanks!
They still have the black Warblettes.
Thank you, thank you, for posting! This was the exact Chuck E Cheese I went to as a kid. I’ve been looking for a video on it for years. Hell, I might be in the crowd. We went there way too much when I was a kid.
you can never go to cec to much lol
or way to much
There was one just like this back then in Alexandria, Virginia (right outside Washington, D.C.). I remember going through those holes, into the little tunnel/hallway under the stage. There was a little set of 2-3 carpeted stairs that went up at the end of the hallway, and sort of a picket fence you could look through. I think there was also a little door that was closed off. I have heard that there was supposed to be strobe lights, black lights and crazy stuff under there, but I think they must've stopped running that stuff by the time I was there in the mid-to-late 80s.
Also, those flags up high on the wall in the showroom would wave periodically, and there were animal paws and other parts on one part of the wall that would clap and move around.
There's a place in Mississippi called "Smitty's Super Service" that has the old "Rock-Afire Explosion" show from Showbiz Pizza and a lot of the old Chuck E. Cheese's stuff and I just saw the wall of moving animal parts in one of the pictures on their Facebook page, so I know I didn't imagine it.
I found a picture of the wall of moving animal parts facebook.com/SmittysSuperService/photos/pcb.313790249256355/313789582589755/?type=3&theater
awesome! yeah I went to the Mattydale one outside of Syracuse. We had an urban legend that the cheese tunnel had collapsed or something.. not sure if ours looked quite the same. but yeah same setup in that era.. Every time I see video it's not with the lights off.. and I remember with this style lightning it made it really intense and scary as a child.. Location was huge.. like even The King was in a whole separate area.. then there was like a dining room that had a projection screen for old movies.. those awesome lighted tunnel corridors to each area.. then it had those animal paws on the wall that clapped. The modern ones really.. suck compared to this.
facebook.com/SmittysSuperService/photos/pcb.313790249256355/313789582589755/?type=3&theater
I remember going to the Mattydale one at this same time as well. I wish I could remember which address it was located. I also remember going to Schwitz’s as well with their seasonal animatronics in the entrance and in the front of the store - including that large monster animatronics at Halloween. I wonder what happened to them.
I luv the mustache on pasquallys face and I have a mustache on my face also but it looks like a walruses mustache.
Nostalgic
wow these are in great hands!
my childhood O_O BTW..O..M..G..I'm 34 now and i have vivid memories of there being like some sort of fun house thingy on the stage where you could crawl into it in the 80s...WOW. this is the first footage i have seen that i proves i am not crazy! I didnt imagine it! it was called the cheese crawl! Never knew it was called that. I used to goto the Chuck e Cheese in greece.
Thank you for posting. Looks very similar to the okemos michigan location. I wish I had footage of it. I Can smell it now.
This is what we had in Normal, IL but I remember the second owners in the 90s closed the crawl tunnels
Yeah it’s so. Good robot
I'm from Syracuse so we had the Mattydale location ( which was amazing and like HUGE ) like The King had his own lounge area... then there was another area with like a movie screen? that played old movies for adults or something.. the ball pit and arcade ( but like eventually they tore down the big ball pit for this above ground swimming pool looking thing ) and there were these tunnels that went from the kitchen to the dining room. The arcade was pretty huge ... but I remember the "cheese crawl" I just dont remember if we had the regular balcony stage or one with holes in it... or if the carpet was made to look like cheese underneath. I think after that we got like the porch rocker stage? it may have been the house where pasqually and munch are behind the windows for some reason. But yeah the Syracuse one was pretty mega and theres no footage of it. I'm wondering if this is the same franchise operator though. Like they werent THAT common. Anyway there was an urban legend at our location that the cheese crawl / tunnel collapsed on a kid and I used to picture how scary it would be to come face to face with like Jasper falling on you.
I grew up at the one in mattydale we were there 3 times a week easy, we would walk there and just play all day..
YESS OMGG imagine the robot still moving and falling on you lol
0:00 What song is that?
Happy birthday from chuck e cheese
This is AWSOME I'm Such a nerd for this XD
For anyone wondering what show this is it’s Dance Segment 1
Why does chuck not have a har and even in some locations he doesn’t even have a tooth.
there's a small chance that almost big kid me is there during this filming.
that cec in NY opened in 2001
There was one more balcony stage in 2001 before shutting down
What that can’t be
@@themapletree2310 it’s true
Why does chuck-e-cheese sound like that?
Did these animatronics pop up?
Erm ❤
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What location is this?
Chuck e cheese Knoxville