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Gottlieb Baffle Ball, 1931



Gottlieb Five Star Final, 1932



Various early home bagatelles and Bally Ballyhoo, 1932



Standard Manufacturing Co. Jockey Club, 1933



Rockola World's Fair Jigsaw, 1933



Rockola World Series, 1934



Rockola Army Navy Pinball, 1934





Shyvers Cannon Fire Jr., 1934



Bally Skyscraper, 1934



Genco Baseball, 1935



Genco Flying Colours, 1935



Daval Company Neck n Neck, 1935



Daval Company Spot Lite, 1935



GM Laboratories Builder Upper, 1935



Exhibit Lightning, 1938

Lots of those old '30s machines featured in this interesting article from Popular Mechanics.

What is it about New York and people enjoying themselves? What is wrong with these people?

Operator Bell wrote:
What is it about New York and people enjoying themselves? What is wrong with these people?

Hi Operator Bell , We had the same thing here in the UK in the 1950s
we called them Teddy Boys!!!!

Hi Operator Bell , We had the same thing here in the UK in the 1950s
we called them Teddy Boys!!!!

Elvis haircuts, long red coats, tight black trousers? I've seen some, and much later than the 50s. A gang of them showed up at the fairground where I was working during the filming of "Tommy", and started a vicious fight with some bikers. Ken Russell filmed the fight; I can't remember if the fighting made it into the movie, but I recall the Teddy Boys featured in it briefly.

ROUND PINBALL???
1932 Bally Round Pinball Machine

Bomber played in Gauselmann Museum, Lübbecke



Blink-Feuer, Paul Bohlmann, Berlin, 1937



Nürburg, Jentzsch & Meerz, Leipzig, 1939



Bally Supreme, 1939

Hercules Manufacturing Co. Double Shuffle, 1932



Gottlieb Big Broadcast Junior, 1933



Bally Fleet, 1934



Daval Big Bertha, 1934





ABT Homestretch, 1935











GM Laboratory Soccer, 1936 (pre-restoration)

Exhibit Supply Rebound, 1934

Heinr.Schulz Automatenbau Winsen (Luhe) Excelsior Bomber, 1937

Can one of our transatlantic readers tell me what 'Spark Plugs' refers to, in horse-racing terms?
In Britain, it is only applied to the metal-and-porcelain devices for igniting the mixture in internal-combustion engines.

I'm assuming you mean the famous Spark Plug cartoon horse?

My 1935 Neontact
by PAMCO, with scoring in neon letters! The idea being to complete a score in numbers and then be paid for that amount by the operator. Only two known examples, I sold to a museum in Belgium a few years ago. Runs on batteries.

Wow love the neon, very unusual I would have kept it

10 years was long enough.

Selling to a museum was an excellent choice, it's quite the piece to show off!

Western Equipment & Supply Co. Center Smash Pinball, 1936

Thought you'd like to see my sympathetic renovation of a 1930s Genco Spitfire Pintable. I bought it for around £350 at the Elephant House Auctions back in 2016 and it remained in my garage for the next four years at which point I thought I'd sell it as I didn't have a great deal of time on my hands. Only offered a £200 for it, so thought, when lock down was on, I'd have a play around with the electrics and see if I could get it working again... Glad I did, here's my Mrs showing the machine off today. Enjoy!



I took the glass off for the video, as it was quite glarey with it on.

What a great game, nice restoration job. Narration lovely and sounded just like Sally from Corrie!

Lovely looking machine. Are they the original type balls?

moonriver wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 8:34 pm What a great game, nice restoration job. Narration lovely and sounded just like Sally from Corrie!

The Mrs will love you saying that, she's a very proud Manchester lass!