What was the first location dedicated to video arcades?

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What was the first location dedicated to video arcades?

As the post headline asks, does anyone know at what point someone decided to take coin-op video games and place them together in a business as opposed to just adding them to an existing business like a bar to make the first "pure" arcade location? Or is it impossible to tell since the line was usually blurred with existing businesses just adding games until they became the primary source of income?
 
Larry might know:

Larry Kerecman was one of the first first operators of video arcade games, including Computer Space. He writes that, "The brilliance of these machines was that Nolan Bushnell and company took what was computer programming (in Space War) and translated it into a simpler version of the game (no gravity) using hard-wired logic circuits. The printed circuit boards that comprise electronics of these games use integrated circuits called small-scale integrated circuits. They consist of discrete logic chips and gates or gates, 4-line to 16-line decoders, etc. straight out of the Texas Instruments catalog. The shape of the rocket ship and flying saucer even are visible in a pattern of diodes on the PC board."
 
In my town, the video arcade evolved out of the pinball arcade which itself evolved out of the turn of the century penny arcade.
As to which place made the first "video games only" arcade, I would say it's not that far back in history. Early 80s?

Sweet Computer Space quote, I think I'll add that to my site.
 
Larry is here on KLOV I assume? Thanks for the info.

I've thought that the first arcade-only place would have come along sometime in the late 70's, probably around the time of Space Invaders.
 
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