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Bingo Pinballs

Created on 6-16-2010 – Last updated 7-23-2011

 

 Movie 1:

GODZILLA 1998 Columbia / TriStar Productions – Oh yeah!

 

From: Mike Singer (pinbuoy@erols.com)
Subject: Pinball in Godzilla

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Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Date: 1999/02/24

 

Did anyone notice the bingo machine playfield in the background as a wall hanging in the movie Godzilla, or has this been covered 46 times already?

 

It was in the bedroom when the blonde was crying about doing the wrong thing.

 

Mike Singer

AVP - Amusement, Video & Pinball

Since 1992 - Buy, sell, trade, in home service.

 

Well the answer is an “ATLANTIC CITY” – My wife now thinks I am officially crazy, it only took a mere 4 hours to figure it out :)

 

The little blonde girl Jean Reno sitting alone in the bedroom on the bed feeling sorry for herself, Hank Azaria comes into console her and help get the boyfriend back – Through the whole seen on the back wall behind her – mounted on the wall is a Bally bingo playing field ……

 

Movies / TV / Radio 2: - Awesome Steve Thank you!

Hi Danny,

 

I see you’ve added bingos in the movies. I know of two more.

One I believe is named “Used Cars” (Curt Russell’s in it) There a scene in a night club/bar and there’s one or two magic screen games in the backgound. One is being played. I remember they were kind of out of focus but I’m thinking it was a County Fair (?). Moive was okay but not great - kind of funny – worth watching sooner or later. Never saw the movie “Diner”. but saw a snapshot of the scene showing the upper corner of a magic screen game in (I think) a pool hall.

 

I did see three in some older TV shows.

 

Two on The Andy Griffith Show

 

He and Barney had dates with two kind of trashy women and go to a diner in Mt. Pilot. There’s a bingo in the back room shown a couple of times. The second time someone’s playing it while someone is watching. (I think it was a United … something)

 

The other Andy Griffith episode is when Gomer is going into the Marines. Andy goes to California with him and meets Sgt. Carter in a diner. I believe that’s where I saw one in the background I couldn’t ID.

 

Last one was in The Dick Vandyke show. It was a flashback episode to when Rob met Laura. They were in an officer’s club and there was a single card sitting out in the open. I didn’t ID that one either (Ohhhh Rob).

 

I also know of Pinball on the Radio.

Jack Benny was playing a pinball for a payout in a drug store on The Eddie Canter Program.

It was pretty good actually. I’ll hunt it down if you like.

 

All for now,

Steve Smith

Richmond VA

 

Radio 3:

Russ, I still love "Counterfeit Cowboy"..Play it almost daily. About a guy who goes into a bar that has a Bingo machine. He orders "Ten Rolls of Nickels, & a Schlitz"

Right Russ???..EL

 

Movies 4:

Hi All,
I watched "City By The Sea" on DVD tonight.  There's a pin in the diner scene, the 2nd scene, about 4 minutes into the movie.  It's an EM, only the head visible.  A line going across the head, dancing stick people.  Maybe a Williams EM, late 60's or early 70's, judging by the stick people art. Maybe somebody's seen this movie, and id'd the pin?  Also, about an hour into the movie, scene 18, bandoned casino, there's a side view of a white pinball head, maybe a bingo head with red and blue sails on the side.  Ideas? There was also what appeared to be some kind of bingo or pin, orange cabinet in the first casino scene earlier in the flick, but hard to see.

Thanks,
  Josh

 

Movies 5: (From PinGeek – Josh Kaplan)

Diner                    some sort of bingo     Tim Daley, Steve Guettenberg, Pool hall scene (thanks Sean K and Steve Smith)

 

 T.V.1: (From Pingeek – Josh Kaplan)

Starsky And Hutch

El Toro, Bally, 1970 and Winner, Williams, 1972, and a bingo with a blue cabinet and a head with a bowling pin painted on it.

Savage Sunday (season 1, ep. #2)

DVD, scene 3, 25 min. into episode, Monty's bar, fight scene.

T.V.2: (From Pingeek – Josh Kaplan)

Starsky And Hutch

Key West (bingo), Bally, 1956;

The Bait (season 1, episode #10)

DVD, scene 2, 9 min. into episode, arcade scene, featuring a bunch of EM skill games and pinball machines.

 

T.V.3: - Awesome Steve _ Thank you!

Now who doesn’t know “Laura” from the Dick Van Dyke Show _ Mrs. “Melt-Your-Socks-Off “ _ Mary Tyler Moore…………… Yummy Plus!!

 

“oh Yeah!!” _ That’s a United Tropics _ Laugh!

(Another reminder why Mr. Smith is a Bingos Who’s Who)