Started on 06-13-2010 – Last updated 12-04-2019

In 2010 when I started this page, pictures of this Silver Sails Bingo Pinball were pretty much non-existent!

Since then Dennis has graced the IPDB with a great set of photos; including a shot of three of these side-by-side _ Bingo History!

Look at Phil’s list of features for this pinball; likely the most features of any Bingo`

Jeff’s book touches on these with some great detail; including, the bit-of-trivia that Bally was known to have shipped a few Silver Sails

cabinets with the Golden Gate backglass in them. Jeff actually has one of this oddities and has seen others - So, go Ole-School…

golden gate in a silver sails cabinet

_ Courtesy Raymond Watts _

Jeff is definitely an “OK Game” fan and talks about this in his book as well as on several pages out on the Internet!

In his book he refers to this Era-of-Bingos as the “Golden Games”

The time where Bally introduced the “Gate” feature that became a favorite. If the player can make three numbers out of six in the

Purple Color Section, they are awarded the “Golden Game” which allows you to fill three numbers in any one of the five Gold Color Sections

or two numbers in either of the Gold Color Section with Black Strips.

…and Man, from there you were in business and in the Money!

_ a nice look, the artist incorporating a bit of the old times in this artwork _

_ yeah, fully-loaded _

_ hmmm _

LINKS

Silver Sails modified with Flippers

5-in-Coler Hit on a Silver Sails

Phil Hooper's Silver Sails Page

Tech Help - Silver Sails Smoked at Turn-on

Anti-Cheat Plates on the Lower Cabinet

SS - Photo Archive

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Adding in the details from my Addendum page – 2019`

A nice spin and I think there are at least two of these, maybe more`

A few of us think that there may have been more than one run of these, more than one build`

If you have some Serial Numbers it would be great to see them please`

Or a couple more photos of this coin box area please`

The number of screens, color combos, and numbers schemes on these is truly amazing,

you can play these for hours and days and never get bored`

These Bingo are fully-packed with features _ Next Game Award _ Super Section – etc`

Coming in 1962` Silver Sails was embroiled in controversy; targeted right at the height of the Legislation Wars!

…Exactly as it was designed to be` an intricate and state-or-the-art Gambling Device…

…and pretty at that`

2019 Misc`

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Vic Camp`

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Well we can argue about Pete’s serial number, but Man that is still significant - Telling`

November 10^th, 1962 Cash Box Magazine`

November 24^th, 1962 Cash Box Magazine`

Pinballcars.com`

The Nintendork`

The brand new Silver sails that was unboxed today at the York pinball show. Look how new it looks. This machine is brand new and from the 1950s! @ausretrogamer @buffalopinball

3:10 PM - 12 Oct 2018

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Re: Unboxing of a NIB 1962 Bally Silver Sails

Postby R.A.B. » Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:28 pm

This is crazy stuff. I always wondered how they boxed bingo machines, they are so freakin' heavy I would have guessed two boxes on a skid, guess I was wrong. This is amazing to see. I have unboxed at least 100 machines working at Laniel and Starburst from 1998 to 2018, but never unboxed an EM, let alone a bingo.

Wow, American workmanship R.I.P.

Pinball Arcade`

oldgiza 10 сер 2015 о 10:30

Which EMs would you pick?

If Farsight were to ask us to pick some EMs for a supplementary season of EMs, which ones would you pick?

Here are some suggestions:

Humpty Dumpty for its historical importance, being the first pinball with flippers. Sapporo for its winter sports, ski lift, toboggan run, ski jump, etc

Also very popular choices are:

Silver Sails (Bingo by Bally 1962-09) Manhattan (Bingo by United 1955-04)

Foto Finish (by Gottlieb 1961-01)

Egg Head (by Gottlieb 1961-12)
Cover Girl (by Gottlieb 1962-07)

Olympics (by Gottlieb 1962-09)
Sweet Hearts (by Gottlieb 1963-09)

Leagle`

Certiorari Denied by Supreme Court December 1, 1975.

OPINION

FRED H. GILLIAM, Special Judge.

On or about May 1, 1973, Andrew Hicks was arrested and charged with having gaming devices in his possession. On June 26, 1973, Hicks was indicted by the Sullivan County Grand Jury for having in his possession "gambling devices, namely, bingo type pinball machines," allegedly in violation of Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-2006. On July 27, 1973, Hicks plead guilty to the offense of "possession of gambling devices", contrary to Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-2006, and the Court ordered that the three (3) Bally Miss America Pinball Machines which had been confiscated on the date of Hicks' arrest should be destroyed after the completion of another case in which they would be used in evidence. In addition to the pinball machines taken from Hicks, two (2) Bally Silver Sails and one (1) Bally Circus Queen Pinball machines were confiscated during 1973 from the Tri-Cities Truck-stop which is owned by Hugh Bradshaw. Bradshaw was never prosecuted by the State for his possession of these pinball machines.

STATE of Tennessee, Appellant, v. Carl LAWSON, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

September 11, 1975

These guys are always following the Pacific Pinball Museum – Cool`

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SS SI Cards - Keith Nickalo - Google Sites

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I got this Silver Sails out of Cincinnati. The young man I got it of off was apparently a neighbor of Jeffery Lawton. He was an avid pinball enthusiast and had ...