Winchester Pizza Time Orchestra (Animatronic)

The Winchester Pizza Time Orchestra was an animatronic produced by Fantasy Forest in 1977 as an animatronic version of the Pizza Time Orchestra at the first PTT on San Jose, CA (370 S Winchester Blvd).

History

The initial inspiration for the Drum Board would be between 1970-1971, when Nolan Bushnell would visit the local Pizza & Pipes restaurant in Redwood City for inspiration on his burgeoning arcade restaurant concept. While the visit mainly inspired the need to have entertainment alongside the food, the mechanically operated instruments would later make their way into the first location in 1977. It was seen on a shelf beside Jasper T. Jowls amongst random objects.⁽¹⁾ The setup appeared in the 1979 PTT Franchise Brochure, were they are referred as Drums & 'Noisemakers'. They were either removed when the store received Cyberamics or when it store closed in February of 1985.⁽²⁾