the ppm has a few pretty ratty 1950's bally and united bingos that are scheduled for the part-out piles.

if you are in the San Francisco bay area and always wanted to try working on a bingo, these are pretty much free (or anything you'd care to donate) - no legs tho.

the ones I remember are:
United: circus, triple play, manhattan (maybe), ...
Bally: night club, big time, a magic screen game, cypress gardens, ...

I'll get a better list next week.

backglass conditions are probably mostly poor. Any good ones the ppm would look to sell.

I will be digging into a couple of machines to document stuff that wasn't in the manual, but if someone wanted the game I'd do it non-destructively. It's faster to chop them up, so that's the plan over the next few months.

I'll post some pics and a list of the games on tuesday.

the playfields are certainly available ... I assume the stuff on the bottom is not wanted? You need light shields, or are the playfields going to be stripped bare?

most of the cabinets are painted over with zylatone.

there's at least one manhattan that is not painted over. I'd need to scrounge some parts for it ... small stuff like a couple relay coils and the lockdown bar. I'm pretty sure there's at least one backglass in a crate in the warehouse.

they also have daina smallwoods collection, including a double header. There's no plan to sell those right now, but I keep nudging them to. Free play bingos are a problem at the public museum as people tend to reset them and walk away, leaving the motors running all day or making work for the front desk folks to keep shooting the balls or tilting it. 'course, the motor issue can be solved with some added circuits or a timer.

here's a list of the basket case games:
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- circus (united)
- showboat (united)
- pixies (united)
- starlet (united)
- cypress gardens
- night club
- yacht club (cabinet/playfield only)
- miss america '57 (cabinet/playfield only)
- roller derby (cabinet/playfield only)
- triple play (cabinet/playfield only)

golden gate - look like a shelf paper wrap job

decent artwork games - restorable
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- golden gate
- circus (united)
- county fair
- bikini
- beach time
- manhattan (united)
- big time
- night club

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what game do you need the rails and bar for?

I vaguely recall getting the rails off a bally is pretty easy, and off a united not so easy. I guess the top of the cabinet could be cut off with the rail then you could cut/mill out the rail itself.

when games are junked the coils, motors and sometimes units are kept. Can't keep it all tho otherwise there's little space savings in parting out the game ... which is kinda why these bingos have sat there for years.

the museum is working on a long term plan. Renting warehouse space isn't going to be an option forever. Unfortunately, none of us have a spare few million dollars to buy the museum a permanent home and warehouse facility, so the process has started to reduce the storage used by the stuff that will never be used in the public museum.

the museum has a paradise ... I'll check and see if parts off the bingos would be useful for you. The lockdown bars I remember are more rectangular, but the one on showboat looks narrower.

the ppm paradise is missing its lockdown bar. However, it looks like one from the worst united circus bingo will work, tho the bolts need to be shifted. The circus bar and rails were painted over with zylatone, but that strips/sands off pretty easily.

the big time is spoken for, but the rest of the games are currently available. I can be reached at [email protected]

even if people took complete games, there will be playfields left over from yacht club, roller derby, triple play, big time, night club, circus, miss america, and probably spot lite and bright lights.

if nobody wants some of the complete games, then most of the rest would be available too. Not sure I'd scrap out the golden gate, bikini or beach time I guess you'd be shipping by pallet?

legs are usually a problem. Although the museum has scrapped quite a few worn out woodrails, they don't have enough legs for all the machines they have.

try googling for "richard conger - silverball ranch" and if you can find current contact info, ask him if he can help you. He has a large collection of early machines.

I'm pretty sure the cypress gardens in the pile has a painted cabinet, but it's otherwise complete (without legs tho). I'll need to pull it out and see how the backglass is.

they also have a cosmetically very good condition cypress gardens (with legs ) that I could probably convince them to sell if you were willing to part with a few hundred dollars. Email me at [email protected] if you want to talk about either option.

there's also some original manuals/schematics for the early machines (and some one-balls) if someone is looking.