We have the final word on the fate of the Looff’s Lite-a-Line roof–and it is “goodbye,” from no less than the city’s Historic Preservation Officer Jan Ostashay. The Looff’s Lite-a-Line roof will be outta here by the end of 2007.

Mike Cincola–owner of Looff’s Lite-a-Line, the marriage of bingo and pinball–sold his game’s original location near Ocean Boulevard and Chestnut Place in 2000, to Camden Property Trust, which promptly turned it into condominiums.
Part of the deal, though, was that they’d save Looff’s distinctive multi-sided, wood-beamed roof structure, which has a cupola on top and (it [...]

Mike Cincola runs Loof’s Lite-A-Line, the last surviving game from the Pike amusement park

PHOTO by DAVID GUETTLER
“The game is handmade,” Looff’s Lite-a-Line owner Mike Cincola says, and he has the credit card to prove it—the small-sized, long-expired Broadway charge card of Vincent C. Engstrom, the man who wired Lite-a-Line at the Pike in 1941 after [...]