Fast Eddy's Arcade items heading for auction

Dozens of artifacts from Windsor's iconic Fast Eddy’s Arcade are heading to auction.

Items that were once featured at the downtown arcade include vintage arcade games, signage, and the famous fun house mirrors that faced Riverside Drive for nearly 30 years.

Lawrence Holland, owner of Holland Consignment Shoppe and Auction House, said he was "super excited" of learning the items would be up for sale.

“Fast Eddy’s was a place that I remember from my childhood,” Holland added. “It brings back so many memories.”

The arcade at Riverside Drive and Ouellette Avenue opened in 1974. It was a fixture for generations of Windsor teenagers until it closed in 2003.

“To watch them come in, they’d be almost star-struck,” said former owner Ed Chudyk, better known as Fast Eddy. 

“The Daytona cars would be racing, the basketballs would be shooting, the kids would be throwing the skee balls,” he said. “The kids were like, ‘this is Disney World.’”

A seat from that Daytona racing arcade game is up for auction, so is a vintage tabletop Tron arcade game, still in working order.

The arcade was part of downtown Windsor’s former Norwich block, which is now the site of One Riverside Drive, and the headquarters of Chrysler Canada.

“It’s kind of a shame for me to go down there and see some guy, sitting at an office desk where my arcade used to be,” said Chudyk, 79.

Chudyk had held the items in storage since the closure. He’s hopeful that a local auction will get the artifacts to people with memories of the arcade’s glory days.

“I just would have hated to have it go to someone that was going to try and sell it, or do something with it.,” he said.

The auction begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Holland Consignment Shoppe and Auction house at 1367 Drouillard road.