Total impulse pick from the library, The Best Things in Life are Free is a travel book with a bunch of ideas of free (or really cheap) travel experiences around the world.
I’m not really planning on doing much traveling any time in the next couple of years but I thought it would be fun to flip through. And it was, until I got to Chicago and it’s listing for the Logan Hardware Arcade Museum. It was completely 100% wrong. I was going to let that go, thinking maybe the book was older than I’d thought… but no, it was written in 2016 and the info they provided would have been completely WRONG for a very long time. I would guess that they just grabbed some info from some old Chicago travel guide and didn’t bother to check to see if it was accurate. Whatever. At that point, I pretty much just quit the book.
For the record… Logan Hardware Arcade, in Chicago, is an amazing place. But it’s a Barcade, not a museum. The games are not free to play. You don’t have to buy anything in order to play them. They have awesome and relatively inexpensive (for Chicago) drinks (I recommend the Gin & Chronic). You should visit but you should know what you’re visiting. Also important to note, the vinyl record store that used to be Logan Hardware and DID (at one point, before the Logan Hardware Arcade opened) have a back room of pinball machines has also closed down. (That actually happened pretty recently, and it’s too bad.)
Nothing worse than a relatively newish travel guide with old (very old) info. Really bad that it’s a Lonely Planet publication.
THat’s too bad. Mostly because they should have had a fact checker go through the book before it was published to check for issues like that. 🙁
YEP, exactly!