More amusements

As a postscript to yesterday’s item about Dundee’s City Arcade, Fraser Elder writes: “In the early 1970s, the Hynd family opened their second amusement arcade in the city, their other premises being located in the Overgate next to Wallace’s Auld Dundee Pie Ship and New Imperial Hotel.

“School children were hooked on the flickering image rotary machines, a variety of ‘Puggies’, carousels for kiddies and other contraptions which dispensed confectionery by the usually infuriating mechanical cranes.

“The arcade was the first to introduce prize bingo with prize tokens for food stuffs and household goods.

“With the redevelopment of Shore Terrace in 1981, the magical market bowed out as a victim of progress and the Caird Hall basement is now established as a loading area for road and stage crews assembling sets for major touring shows, exhibitions and conferences in the upstairs arena.”