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Quoted from blownfuse:Guess the change of the name wasn't added then. Interesting, the Carnival may have indeed been made that way and was a sample game that showed up at the fair (I assume the fair was at or after '50). They might have changed the name to Mardi Gras because the name Carnival was used by Bally in '48, Mardi Gras production started in '48 too.
Steve
To add to the mystery, the original backglass artwork for Bally's 1948 Carnival was called "Mardi Gras":
Quoted from AlexF:Wow, such a cool piece of art. I wasn't familiar with Lester Hilbrich.
His son contacted me a few years back, said his garage had a lot of his Dad's pinball art. What he sent are in these listings:
http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?searchtype=advanced&ppl=Lester%20Hilbrich
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