Bingo Pinballs
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5-25-2010 – Last Updated 10-22-2015 |
Russ, Phil, Everyone has this
list game listed with the Bingos and it certainly is appropriate! An In-Line,
Card Game, form a subsidiary of United, which joined Untied out right almost
immediately after its release in 1951. This picture below is from
Pingeek and I posted it here so we don't loose it one day - It helps show the
true backglass hues! Dennis has posted a wonderful set of pictures out on the IPDB,
including some really great documentation. The (3) misc pictures on the IPDB were from a machine posted on
the Internet with this sales note: “This old pinball machine allows 5 players
to play 5 bingo cards at a time. It takes 5 cents for five balls. The game
has an all-wood cabinet trimmed in curly maple. The scoreboard measures 25 in
sq. and stands 67 in high. The base is 4-in-L by 27 in W. It weighs about
200-to-250 lbs. There is a sticker in the back that says Universal
Industries." Trivia, a friend once told me that he has seen a couple of these
things and both of them had inspection dates posted in the cabinet of 1980 as
though they were still on location a of that late date _ Hmmm! In Billboard Magazine where most of these games were publicly
released, none of the games up to Bright Lights were referred to as Bingos _
I like how they referred to this 5 Star as an "All Skill" game -
Pretty Cool Billboards Magazines July 28th 1951 ~ Jul 1951 Billboard – The companies become one ~ _ That
ball-shooter, rubber stop, and gate-stop will all transfer later to the
United bingos _ Now, check out this Manual _ Maybe the reason the United manual
were so Cool http://danny.cdyn.com/manual-5_star.pdf ~ Bingo Pinballs – United/Universal History ~ ~ |
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