Marvin Yagoda, founder of Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum dies
Marvin Yagoda, the beloved founder of Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum in Farmington Hills, Michigan, died on Sunday, Jan 8, 2017. He was 78 years old.
Yagoda, who first opened Marvelous Marvin’s in 1990, has been collecting vintage coin-operated arcade games and any other unusual rarities that caught his eye since 1960, and he has continued to add to the Mechanical Museum’s collection throughout the years. He had been a long-time member of COCA.
“I decided to open the museum because I had so much stuff in my house,” Yagoda told The Oakland Press in a 2010 interview. “That, and my wife told me I had to do something with it.” Marvin's collection has close to 1000 mechanical devices.
{image_1}The 5,500-square-foot facility on Orchard Lake Road at 14 Mile houses everything from historical penny-games to the latest in arcade technology. It is listed in the World Almanac’s 100 most unusual museums in the U.S. Marvin's son plans to continue the operation of the museum.
