Cincinnati, OH (8801 Colerain Ave)
Cincinnati, OH (8801 Colerain Ave) is a Chuck E. Cheese's location running from 1981 to 2019.
The Colerain Ave Showbiz Pizza Place opened up November 11th 1981 opening in front of the former Gold Circle Mall the store featured The Show Room, Sports Room, 60 Arcade games, a merry-go-around, and "a magic cave". On April 29th 1991 where the store went under Concept Unification. Then closed its doors September 22nd 2019 due to leasing issues.
Stages
The store opened with the Rock Afire Explosion on November 11th 1981, then got Concept Unification in 1991 causing the stage to be converted into a 3stage.
History
notable history, but any big events like a car crashing into the building or someone dying or like something actually cool happening to one of these stores make a seperate header above this.
The Shows installation and changes.
Started April 29th 1991 and was completed by May 3rd 1991. Colerain was an interesting 3-stage as by the end of its life almost everything had been removed/changed. So here is a list of most of the major things that changed at the Colerain CEC over the years. Between 1992-2002 Munch Jr had been removed, all the latex masks were replaced with Plastic by 2002, next was Pizzacam by 2001-2002, The tuxedo outfit was replaced with the full Cool Chuck outfit sometime between 2002-2005, The CEC Neon sign was removed 2002-2005, The TV Light and TV Box were removed between 2005-2007, The curtains were removed in 2007-2008, Chuck went from full Cool Chuck to full Avenger in February 2011, Munch's Make Believe Band Sign was removed 2013, Moon was removed in 2017, Building was removed 2018, Chucks CRT removed also in 2018, Then on September 22nd 2019 the entire 3-stage was removed as the store closed.
The Remodels
Colerain went through many remodels over its 38 years in operation. It had the original Showbiz remodel until the late 80s when they received the 88 Remodel Package which features Neon Signs, Oil Paintings, and Red,Green,Yellow, Blue Checkers, Then in mid 90s Colerain received the 91 Remodel package which removed everything the previous remodel and installed new artwork, carpet, paint, furniture and basically was the start of a new era for CEC. This was until September 2009 when Colerain started its 2005 Remodel Package which caused the removal of the old artwork, Showroom walls, dim lighting, and replaced all the artwork with new art from 2005, purple and white walls, booths, and fluorescent lights, also expanded the store outwards a couple feet into the parking lot. This was the remodel the store had until September 22nd 2019 when the store closed and everything was destroyed except for the booths which were shipped to
Home Videos
gonna be links to pages from Category: Home Video, but feel free to just link the direct videos here and we'll sort out the pages later. "Home Videos" are specifically videos shot on the location before YouTube was a thing. Best to note since old camcorder videos are harder to come by, with nowadays there being like a million billion videos of locations being published every single day.
- link to home video
- link to home video
YouTube Videos
These are any videos found of the location on youtube in modern day. Just link directly to the video and give a date, don't worry about making any pages. This is also good, just like the home videos, for making direct citations to claims made in the history section, and if anything notable in the video shows something about its history, it should be described.
| Link | Description | Date Published |
|---|---|---|
| link | some nerd plays in the ball pit | February 4, 1865 |
| link | Only known footage of this location using this chuck outfit | January 9, 100 B.C |
References
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