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It's been a while since I posted about Showbiz Pizza and other former York County pizza places, like Pappy's.

But while doing this week's promised clean-out of e-mail, I found a couple of Showbiz comments, both of which were too good not to share.

New commenter Kevin said he was a huge fan of places like Showbiz. He wrote: "In Minnesota, we had Circus Pizza, which I'm almost positive was from the same company. Same band, same games, everything." Despite liking the pizza, he said the band "still haunts my nightmares to this day." Now, here's the scary part. He wrote a very interesting blog post on the most awful bears - and the Showbiz Pizza band makes up a lot of it.

He's right, they ARE kind of creepy.

Now, that brings me to another first-time commenter, Chris. Now Chris is a lifelong Yorker like me, it looks like, judging from his comments and his bio on his Web site.

He remembers Roll R Way burning down, and also Pappy's Pizza and Showbiz. He said he's still friends with the former manager of Showbiz and also with Aaron Fechter, the co-founder of Showbiz in the 80s.

Now, this is where he really got me. He wrote: "I loved Showbiz pizza so much, I even bought the animatronic band off eBay! Too bad kids these days don't have cool places like that to hang out at."

OK. Animatronic band purchase on eBay. That definitely makes you a fan. Interestingly, if you check out Chris's site, he's very into making Halloween displays. Now, I'm editorializing here, but I happen to think that creepy band would be MUCH more suited for a scary Halloween display than it would be for a fun kids' amusement. Creepy!

I had posted last week about Showbiz Pizza, predecessor to Chuck E. Cheese.

Mark, checking in from Austria, had some fond memories of other yummy local pizza. He wrote:

Does anyone remember Pappy's Pizza? It used to be right off of 83 south on Leaders Heights Rd. When I was a kid, that is where we went every once in a while for pizza and birthdays. Another lost pizza place from York was International Pizza which used to be out by the old BEST store and where Roll'R'Way east was before it burned down (I witnessed that fire!!!). So does anyone else remember good pizza spots that are no longer around York? Oh, I almost forgot, Angelo's in Manchester...best greasy pizza ever!!!

My favorite it-isn't-there-anymore local pizza was on Route 74 in Dover, where the Moonlight Cafe is now. Unfortunately neither my mom or I can remember the name of it... so, help! Does anyone remember? You would be saving me MUCH anguish if you could help me think of it!

Spent a good part of Sunday morning at Chuck E. Cheese in Springettsbury Township for the birthday party of my "honorary nephew," Brayden.

In between eating our bacon pizza (yum) and playing Deal or No Deal video games (I did NOT make good deals), we got to talking about the history of Chuck E. Cheese.

We were remembering the old commercials... "Chuck E. Cheese... where a kid can be a kid!" And, even before that, it was "Showbiz Pizza..." with the same tagline.

It hasn't been Showbiz since I was in elementary school. But it's strange how we all remembered that.

Here's Hubby and Sarah (and Sarah is showing off "Chuckie" on one of her tokens.)