Bingo Pinballs

 

Created on 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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