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Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

How Chuck E. Cheese Became The World’s Top Animatronic Mouse Video Gamer And Pizza Restaurateur

Today in 1977, Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre opened in California, co-founded by Atari's Nolan Bushnell as a kid-friendly way to promote video gaming and bring the world closer to animatronic mice. Plus: this week in 1905, a film camera documents the funeral procession of the last known surviving veteran of the War of 1812. 

An Oral History Of Those Creepy-Ass Chuck E. Cheese Robots (Mel Magazine)

The surprising and horrifying backstory behind Charles Entertainment Cheese (Insider)

Funeral of Hiram Cronk (Library of Congress)

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