I was just wondering if anyone out there collects or has in their collection flipperless machines from this era (I'm talking primarily about the EM machines that had full backglasses and predate the bingo era, not the PM machines from the early days)?

I seem to come across these machines frequently in my travels and the person who has them for sale either watched too many episodes of Pawn Stars and thinks the machine is worth 1000s because of its age, has them for sale at under $100 or parted out.

I currently own a Bally Attention that survived Laguardia's destruction of pinballs in NYC by ending up in a boiler room forgotten for about 70 years and have had a few others in the past. I know there's not much to these machines in terms of game play, but they are pretty to look at and usually pretty simple to get running.

#2 9 years ago

WRD

way2wyrd

History Of Pinball

Fort Worth, TX

13y 116K 4,917 21 12

Theres a couple of threads im sure youve seen in this forum

Personally i have a Bally Airway and I really love it

--Jeff

#3 9 years ago

ART

MrArt2u

Pinside member

Los Angeles, CA

12y 65,400 1,471 16

We have a 1945 Gottlieb Stage Door Canteen and a 1947 Bally Silver Streak that we alternately set up. They do get played quite a bit when we have parties. Like you said, not much on game play but, then again, some party goers gravitate towards the less interactive games. Easy but somewhat challenging rulesets and fantastic artwork, we love these games and intend to keep them in the lineup.

#4 9 years ago

WIZ

balzofsteel

Pinside member

Middle O' Oregon

9y 54,800 826 49

It doesn't get a lot of play and darnit needs to get fussed with some more to be working all the way again but there sure would be a hole in the lineup without it....

ws43.jpg

World Series 1943 is actually a Genco Seven Up from 1941 with a wartime "conversion kit" installed. Some interesting history there. This one gathered dust for decades in a Seattle basement.

Here's an article about playing Seven Up: http://archive.ipdb.org/russjensen/7up.htm It actually has a fairly busy ruleset.

I also find the '30s marble game mildly amusing: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=5479

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