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1. Norman Pink had been: in St: Anthony when the jicens.es .were :limited 2 . to"10 there were so. many applications for, .arcades in. ;every 3. vacant store; drug store— and. the simplest way .. to control 4 - that '.was rather than to write -an ordinance defining them was to 5 limit the control the arcades by licenses; 6 said his firm had 1 , 500 square feet of empty space which. could 7 take from 45' to 50 video games, to fill up and because . there are 8 only 34 licenses available, they need pool tables; 9 indicated if the City wanted to let them have more ..license.s, they 10 wouldn' t need the pool tables; 11 reiterated that his company had hired the full time police officers 12 who work in their Village North and Maplewood establishmen-ts, the 13 day their arcades opened up and it wasn' t something the. municipali- 14 ties had made them do; 15 pointed out that the young people who- have the mobility they have 16 nowadays .are going to go somewhere because the school system . 17 doesn' t require the amount of study they did when he was, young; 18 said ift reference to parental supervision, he said he'd. rather have 19 his own kids in an arcade where there is good supervision where he 20 would be able to go and would be able to take that child and pick 11 him or ' her up -rather than have that child say . "I 'm going out with 2 the- kids and will be back at 10 o' clock. " ; 23 said his company expects ' to close the .arcade Monday through 24 Thursday at 9: 30 P.M. or whatever time the shopping mall closes ; . 25 indicated his company had found it would be advantageous to. them 26 and" also to the young people to give them a supervised. place. to be 27 up to 12 : 00 o' clock on Friday and Saturday nights ; 28 insisted they wouldn' t be looking for the crowd from the Apache 29 Wells bar and would like to have their. mall door closed so the 30 only access from the bar to the arcade would be through the outside 31 door ; 32 said they would have to decide whether it was practical dollar and 33 cents wise to hire an off-duty policeman and other type. of outside 34 supervision and if not monetarily feasible to have someone on duty 35 three hours every Friday and Saturday . night, said would close 36 earlier on those nights ; 37 pointed out that in the bowling alley the arcade is in close 38 proximity to the beer counter and beer can be brought any place in 39 that room no matter who it is next to; 40 stated 'he believed it should be left to the parents to decide +41 whether their children are in the arcade after 9 :.00 at night; 17