{"id":381426,"date":"2026-07-21T20:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381426\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:53:38","slug":"fort-worth-family-entertainment-favorite-to-shut-down-for-good-after-35-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381426\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth family entertainment favorite to shut down for good after 35 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A local favorite for family entertainment is powering down for good in early August, according to the business Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tornado Terry&#8217;s Family Amusement Center in Keller posted in June that it&#8217;s game over on August 9th due to decreased visitors. The business will celebrate its 35th anniversary on August 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The amusement center says <a data-ylk=\"slk:they will be holding an auction for all of their game cabinets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/tornadoterrys\/posts\/pfbid02TWVyak3gLmFt5ytRwLRY3c14ZJpPJuTeUhLLjUpXx3WfsPwE9xpiao4nHgAmc17Yl\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">they will be holding an auction for all of their game cabinets<\/a> on August 2nd. They will also be selling commemorative tokens to any customers that want to take a piece of the arcade home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The closure comes amid construction on Keller Hicks Rd. that has been ongoing since February of 2024, and not expected to be finished until spring of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local favorite for family entertainment is powering down for good in early August, according to the business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[121274,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-381426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-amusement-center","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}