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U.S. Pizza Museum Opens Friday in Chicago Regardless of What New Yorkers Think
The Chicago museum isn’t the first ... He’s particularly nostalgic for anything related to the Showbiz Pizza Place chain. He joked that his first visit watching the animatronic band may ...
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Iconic Rock-afire Explosion Band From Showbiz Pizza Still Playing in These Two Cities
The animatronic band of animals would entertain Showbiz Pizza guests while they caught ... Drive a little more than an hour ...
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Chuck E. Cheese’s breaking up the (animatronic) band
An original partner in ShowBiz Pizza, Fechter retained ownership of ... Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,’ Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder as lawyers praise Trump ...
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The last Chicago-area Chuck E. Cheese to boot the animatronic band embraces the future with trampolines, video screens and pizza
Three years later, ShowBiz Pizza Place launched a rival animatronic ... member of Munch's Make Believe Band at a Chuck E. Cheese in Chicago on Feb. 9, 2018. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune ...
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For fans of animatronic bands of the 1980s, Smitty's is a time capsule of the era
He grew up in suburban Chicago in a market that had both ShowBiz Pizza and Chuck E. Cheese locations when he was a child. Garay now works in radio. “I can definitely picture myself standing in ...
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Revisiting Showbiz Pizza and the Rock-afire Explosion
Jul. 22—AUTHOR'S NOTE — I recently wrote about the Rock-afire Explosion and long-defunct '80s eatery Showbiz Pizza for the food issue of Mud and Magnolias magazine, which inspired me to ...