East LA Boy’s Cardboard Creation Becomes Internet Sensation(VIDEO)
In a working class neighborhood of east Los Angeles, there is an auto parts store which has become famous. “People fly in from all around the world,” says owner George Monroy. “They take taxis here.” The visitors are not coming for the auto parts. They’re here to play in an arcade created by Monroy’s son. In the summer of 2011, when Caine Monroy was nine, he won a miniature basketball hoop from playing an arcade game. George says Caine decided to create his own arcade game by taping the hoop to a cardboard box. “He was trying to get all the customers to play his basketball game,” George says. “He didn’t have very much luck with that, so he started making the game better. He kept building even though he didn’t have any customers.” It took three months for Caine to get his first customer, when Nirvan Mullick showed up on the last day of summer. “I needed