Larry Bernhardt, local McAlester business owner, built Great Balls of Fire to compliment his retro playground of the now quiet Happy Days Hotel, along with the Angel's Diner. It's hilariously oversized neon signage reading, "Great Balls of Fire" is a nod to the song of the same name by Jerry Lee Lewis, a pioneer of rock n' roll and rockabilly. Traffic on US 69 rolls past on the same road that once carried Choctaw coal and restless vacationers through Oklahoma red dirt. Inside the lanes keep clattering, backlight golf glows, spinning bumper cars collide, and the noises spilling from the arcade invite you to experience the 1950's as it was.
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