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Import from Cheese-E-Pedia revision 274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854

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| Companies/Brands
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! style="text-align:left; vertical-align:top; width:35%;" | Dates
| 1979 – 1984-08
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| Pizza Time Theatre
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The '''''Pizza Time Theatre Games Division''''', originally known as '''''Pete's Woodworking, Inc.''''' was an early manufacturer of stages and fixtures for [[Pizza Time Theatre]] which was merged into Pizza Time Theatre in April 1982 to become its main games distributor. The division would close in August of 1984 due to financial trouble with its parent company.

== History ==
The original company was a small business ran out of Pete Mirrione's garage selling cabinets and skee-ball machines. Pete would host a booth at a trade show sometime between 1977-1979 that Gene Landrum was also at. Gene would ask if Pete's skee-ball machines could be rebranded with Chuck E. Cheese markings, as Gene noted the larger skee-ball manufacturers were unwilling to do. Pete would agree and Gene would place a "sizable" order of machines.<ref name="cep10">[https://web.archive.org/web/20150705140821/http://www.atari.io/chuck-e-cheese-skee-ball-gene-landrum/ web.archive.org]</ref>

The earliest noted thing the company worked on was the railings for the two [[Helen Henny (Lounge)]] stages from October to December of 1979, followed by making the [[Balcony Stage]] for the [[San Jose, CA (1371 Kooser Rd)]] in April of 1980. Pizza Time Theatre would continue collaborations with Pete's Woodworking for various signage and fixtures.<ref name="cep1">[https://www.facebook.com/groups/sanjosevalleyorchards/posts/7887943434666564/ facebook.com]</ref>

The company would be officially files as a California Stock Corporation on January 12th, 1981. It would be credited as a contributor to the A Star is Born (Event) in September of 1981.<ref name="cep2">[https://www.showbizpizza.com/info/documents/ptt/ptt_pizzatimes1-2.pdf showbizpizza.com]</ref>

The company would later be purchased in April of 1982 by Pizza Time Theatre and incorperated into its Games Division at a new site in [[Hollister, CA (1802 Shelton Drive)]].<ref name="cep1" /> The original business would cease to be registered on February 11th, 1983.<ref name="cep8">[https://www.bizapedia.com/ca/petes-woodworking-inc.html bizapedia.com]</ref>

== Contributions ==
Contributions made before the company became the Games Division.
* [[Chuck E. Cheese Roll]]
* The first Balcony stage for [[San Jose, CA (1371 Kooser Rd)]] in April of 1980.<ref name="cep1" />
* Bars for Dolli Dimples (unclear which, noted after the Kooser stage was built.)<ref name="cep1" />
* The railing for the two [[Helen Henny (Lounge)]].
* The railing for [[The King / King Kat (Lounge)]]. <ref name="cep1" />
* Jasper's General Store <ref name="cep1" />
* Sundae Bars (noted specifically one at [[San Jose, CA (1371 Kooser Rd)]]) <ref name="cep1" /><ref name="cep6">[https://www.facebook.com/groups/sanjosevalleyorchards/posts/3681926585268291/ facebook.com]</ref>
* Salad Bars <ref name="cep1" />
* [[Cheese Crawl]] (likely later iterations, noted as "...after the original one caught fire.") <ref name="cep1" /><ref name="cep4">[https://www.facebook.com/groups/674161626107787/posts/2957463611110899/ facebook.com]</ref>
* "...most fixtures within the restaurant..." <ref name="cep1" />
* [[Whac-A-Munch]]<ref name="cep10" />

=== Credits ===
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== References ==
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== Import provenance ==
Imported from [https://github.com/The64thGamer/cheeseepedia/tree/274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854 Cheese-E-Pedia] at source revision <code>274f085c7132d784f81b7a4cbd96e7a0922db854</code>. Source material is provided under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-SA 4.0].

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