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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
'''Marvin Yagoda''' is the creator of [[Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Place)]], which resided within Tally Hall, the shopping centre that [[Tally Hall|the band]] is named after<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Nk8xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-AIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3824%2C6229900 Toledo Blade Newspaper, August 21st, 1988]</ref> | '''Marvin Yagoda''' is the creator of [[Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Place)]], which resided within Tally Hall, the shopping centre that [[Tally Hall|the band]] is named after<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Nk8xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-AIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3824%2C6229900 Toledo Blade Newspaper, August 21st, 1988]</ref>. | ||
Marvin passed away <ref>[http://www.hiddeninthesand.com/blogs/news/2017/01/marvin-yagoda-1938-2017 Eulogy of Marvin Yagoda on HITS]</ref> | Marvin was fascinated with collecting coin operated machines since he was a little kid<ref name=MLive>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP5OMZFpvlc A Century of Arcade: Inside Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum. 2017. MLive. YouTube.]</ref> and began collecting his own in 1960 but it wasn't until 1990 when he opened his mechanical museum. | ||
Marvin was a pharmacist by trade and studied at the University of Michigan.<ref name=MLive>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP5OMZFpvlc A Century of Arcade: Inside Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum. 2017. MLive. YouTube.]</ref> after graduating in the early 60's he kept collecting coin operated machines, overtaking his wife's house. In 1980 his wife, and his son, Jeremy Yagonda, went to the Tally Hall food court and said that it would be a great place for the machines to take residence for other people to enjoy.<ref name=magicmode>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IKloucc4Dk Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum. 2010. Magicmode. Modern Marvels. YouTube.]</ref><ref name=THISMMMM>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jpSNLF40Ew Tally Hall's Internet Show - Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum. tallyall. YouTube.]</ref><br> | |||
Marvin passed away after a long illness on January 8, 2017.<ref>[http://www.hiddeninthesand.com/blogs/news/2017/01/marvin-yagoda-1938-2017 Eulogy of Marvin Yagoda on HITS]</ref> The museum remains in the hands of his family and is still open for business. | |||
[[File:marvin-memorial-art.jpg|500px|center|In memory of Marvin Yagoda|link=http://www.hiddeninthesand.com/blogs/news/2017/01/marvin-yagoda-1938-2017]] | [[File:marvin-memorial-art.jpg|500px|center|In memory of Marvin Yagoda|link=http://www.hiddeninthesand.com/blogs/news/2017/01/marvin-yagoda-1938-2017]] | ||