Originally Posted by monet View Post
Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
Thanks for the interesting synopsis Monet - sounds like a winner. This one is going to bite deep I can already tell (most APs are carnies without a carnival as you know) - so I will make sure I am in a calm mood before I take my watching.

Currently I am listening to the Rogan podcast with Antonio Garcia Martinez since he was the dude who had his career at Google destroyed by woke, libtard, fascist cunts and I want to hear his story. I think there is supposed to be a Baldwin drop today, but I haven't looked on youtube for it just yet.

A brief word about Licorice Pizza - I'm not clear on how strictly enforced the No Pinball law was in LA prior to it getting rescinded. Probably somewhat enforced, but you could probably play in the back room of Dive bars before the rescinding - speculation on my part. So the film is basically pretty realistic, but there might be some minor liberties taken like the portrayal of super strong enforcement of the No pinball Law (viewed as a form of gambling, hence the restriction).
There is no doubt in my mind that I would fit right in working the degenerate lifestyle as a Carnie.
A week or two ago they had a small carnival outside the Galleria Mall at Sunset.
I was hoping to get some of that good Fried Carnie Food but they had nothing but Cotton Candy and Cracker Jack.
I couldn't get my wife on the Zipper which has to be the oldest Carnival Ride that I can think of and it is always the same name.
They had a lager version of the Salt and Pepper Shakers that holds more people but I couldn't get her on that either.
She wouldn't even ride the swings.
To my surprise, I did get her on the Thunderbolt though.
I don't think she realized that it has some speed to it and that it swings side to side and goes backwards.
Felt good and I kept telling her that these rides break and crash all the time and people get killed riding them lol.
And she went on the Ferris Wheel and Fun House with me.
I wanted to play some games but they were even more of a rip off than the rides so I restrained myself and spent 150 dollars at Famous Dave's Fake Bar-B-Que.
I don't recommend Famous Dave's... I was just being Lazy and I had a 200 dollar promotion credit on one of my credit cards.

The pinball law is sort of interesting.
I remember the bar pinball games and the No Gambling Signs.
Licorice Pizza was good enough in this era of constant bad movies.
As you know, Hollywood has lots its appeal.
Will Smith and all the Gay, Woke, BLM Bullshit has destroyed whatever it once was.
It won't be long before Comedy is outlawed and Comedians are hung.

Thanks for the pictures of those pinball machines.
Very Cool.

One fellow in the Licorice pinball Pinside thread identified an anachronism. Mars Trek (very fun pinball machine), which was made 1977, appeared in Fat Bernie's Pinball Parlor even though the film was set in 1972 Los Angeles. Kind of reminds of how Bally's pinball Nip-It (1973) appeared in Arnold's in the TV series Happy Days (set in the 50's you'll recall) in many of the episodes. But like you said, Licorice Pizza was a rock solid movie and these were trivial inconsistencies (fuck American Graffiti had many 70's pinball machines even though it was set in the 50's - same with Dazed and Confused having pinballs newer than the time setting of the story).