Bingo Pinballs

Created on 03-31-2003 - Last Update 12-15-2022

 

 

~ Williams 1952 Long Beach ~

 

I don’t know the date, but Russ Jensen once interviewed Harry Williams and posted the first note below on his website (now defunct) along

with some greater detail. Naturally I clipped the note, it being a bingo-tidbit, and I wanted to post it again since I found another note

related to it and I also found a couple of obscure pics buried on Raymond Watt’s site I wanted to give greater visibility.

 

http://hometown.aol.com/rusjensen/harryw.htm
An Interview between Russ Jensen and Harry Williams of Williams Pinball. Where they touch on Bingos, Harry is asked why the Williams Bingo circuitry is so much different then Bally's. Here He replies: "Since Lyn Durant was a good circuit designer he probably thought his method was better than Bally's."

 

~ You gotta love that! ~

 

Long Beach

 

From Gary Stern -

 

I lived in Lincoln Park and my car was not working so I told the cab driver to take me to 3401 North California Ave. He said, "That's United Manufacturing," which it wasn't anymore, "Lyn Durant." How did he know that? Apparently, you guys would know better than me, but one Christmas Eve, Durant, whose apartment was upstairs above the factory, wanted to go downtown and called a cab. The cab showed up and Lyn asked the cab driver why he was working on Christmas Eve? The driver replied with reasons like he had to buy presents for his kid and he needed the money. Durant gave him a tip that folded up looked like a dollar, but it was a hundred. So there was always a cab nearby, for years, in case Durant needed one.

Durant used to drink quite a bit. He used to give away fur coats, give away cars. The Williams lunchroom was Durant's ballroom. One day he was coming up the elevator with the owner of a Chicago nightclub, Jack Schotts, to the second floor and he said to the elevator operator, "I want a drink." Jack said we're almost there, but Lyn repeated, "NO, I want a drink now." The elevator operator stopped and opened the elevator door. It's half way up, and the door opens and there in the elevator shaft was an alcove where Durant had built a bar so he could stop the elevator and serve booze to his friends.

 

 

(Source Unknown)

 

 

The second patent I have been able to track to Lyn Durant

 

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Dated 1952 for the 1951 United ABC

 

As your chasing the patents: Please remember that they may lag by several months/years behind the designs`

 

 

Patent Durant 1951

Patent Durant 1951

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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