Bally’s Tom Foolery: Madison West

One of a handful of Bally’s Tom Foolery early arcade bar/nightclub concepts that existed briefly in the early 1980’s. This was previously a Barnaby’s Family Inn, until Bally Manufacturing Co. purchased the chain in 1981 and converted a number of the locations to the Tom Foolery concept.

The arcade crash of 1982, plus the mountain of debt that Bally’s was navigating at the time, put an unfortunate swift end to this concept.