A sad day for East Dulwich - The Tivoli Amusements has closed down

[Gilles]

I guess the gold sparkly top hat in the window wasn't working anymore

[kford]

Game over etc.

[local1]

Well Paine and Hunter are just opposite. Perhaps you should pop over if you have only just seen the closure of TivoliB)

[Jah Lush]

Something that's always puzzled me....What's so amusing about an arcade?

[lofty]

Betting on the race horses :)...its almost like the real thing...not knowing who the hell will win.

[ianr]

Ah. Oh. Hmm.

I've had ?4 of unexpectedly won gaming machine tokens, in a little bag, for the past 20+ years. I really was meaning to go into this place sometime, to see if they were still usable or cashable. But it wasn't an appealing place to go in, especially so when people smoked in it.

Oh well. Win some, lose some. Swings and roundabouts. Ashes to ashes. Speculate to accumulate, etc.

[dianecollins]

It's in Crystal Palace

[ianr]

So not the fruit machine place in LL that's just shut down then? (; I did wonder that people were misssing it.

But thanks for the reminder; really do want to visit the Great Exhibition.

[TJS]

Update - I see the request to change the arcade into a "Wine bar" has been granted - http://planningonline.southwarksites.com/planningonline2/AcolNetCGI.exe?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&TheSystemkey=9527140

[Rolo Tomasi]

Excellent...looking forward to another watering hole on the lane!

[bon3yard]

...a wine bar? Pah! Surely an Indian Restaurant wouldnt have gone amiss.

[Moos]

I can't understand why they don't open more baby tat shops. 3 isn't nearly enough.

[SteveT]

A sad day for East Dulwich - The Tivoli Amusements has closed down.........

Yes a great loss to the community. RIP

Perhaps it will become something useful like a gas lamp lighter's sundriesman,

or a corn chandler, so CHAV can get her chicken feed locally,

a shepherd's training tutorial college,

or the Fens and east anglia, mountain climbing school

a rat and squirrel milking parlour

a pigeon messaging service

a retirement home for useful politicians it would be too big but we can indulge him/her

a bar for genuinely honest reliable and valuable members of the judiciary a huge space for this but we could sub-let.

a bomb making school for disillusioned muslim youth

a university for happy social workers

an environment enabling food producers to concoct the true contents of their delicious fare

a manufacturers training establishment of technical authors for clear and concise instructions in self assembly furniture

a bingo hall for container travelling, illegal immigrants.....as they love to shout 'house'

the possibilities are endless for widening the cross section of ED business, Dragon's eat your heart out.

[AcedOut]

A club maybe - there is a large basement in the plans..

[TJS]

yup...but only liscensed till midnight at the latest currently....looking at the conditions of planning permission....so more a bar by the looks - i am looking forward to this addition.

[SteveT]

They can serve coffees after midnight so we don't get nicked for drunk 'n' disorderly on LL

[James]

Why is it sad that this place has closed down? Is that a joke?

[snorky]

another nail in the coffin of the ED huddled masses

[SteveT]

It made such a contrast to all the hard done by estate agents on LL James.

[Michael Palaeologus]

The Tivoli did give the great unwashed a glimpse into the wonders of Las Vegas.

Peeping into Tivoli was much like peeping into Caesar's Palace; tad smaller though.