Neo Geo

There was some kind of an ice cream shop in the strip mall in Hubbard Woods close to where Tilt used to be but long after it closed that had a Neo Geo machine in it. Neo Geo was an arcade game that let you choose from 2 to 4 different games depending on how it was set up. For a while, Tony and I liked to go over there to play Baseball All Stars. A few years ago I toyed with the idea of buying an old Neo Geo board off of Ebay and building my own machine but it the project seemed a little too ambitious for me.

This is Space Command to Jimmy

I don't know how old we were, probably in Jr. High, but one year Greg and I were at the Winnetka sidewalk sale and we found an old floppy 45 record with a birthday song dedicated to Jimmy. Our friend Jim's birthday was coming up a the end of the summer so we bought it. I think we paid a quarter for it. It was one of the dumbest things we'd ever heard but at the same time was so catchy it was hard to forget.

I can't find one online for Jimmy without paying for it. Apparently, someone else has picked up the business and now customizes songs for a number of different occasions. I'm not sure what the guy in this video is thinking but that Gail is one lucky woman.

General Cinemas

Growing up, there were 3 first run movie theaters that we would go to. The Edens, The Evanston, and Deerbrook Mall's General Cinemas. All three are gone now but I found this bumper that played before all the movies at Deerbrook. It was later replaced with that canibalistic CGI candy band that used the same song.