I have this for sale or trade if anyone is interested. Will need restored. 1k

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are all of the parts for the crane in there?

Beautiful addition it really completes it.

that looks so good

I believe most of it..

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some new acquisitions, so stuff moved around...
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and some new art on the walls
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Ok not an electrical toy ,but a toy and a bowler ,a rich toy big four from the 1950s over five feet long and two feet tall , with magic pin setter and automatic ball return
what a Christmas present this must have been

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This is very cool- thanks foe sharing.
Could you show us a pic of how the “magic” pin setter works?

Completed full resto of a Groetchen 1940 Sparks Champion trade stimulator. These are quite a nice machine with award tokens from the right side and a jackpot gold award dispensed from the front of the machine. Purchased this one non working so required a full dismantle to clear years of crud and adjustment of an award lever to correct award payouts. Now works fine.

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Alongside my Imp and Daval Gusher trade stims.

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That's cool. Are all of the images on the reels cigarette packages?

Yes this is the cigarette version-another version had fruit reels.

I like Bally bowlers. This machine is well worth grabbing. It plays bigger than 14 ft.
btw: If anyone may have a couple extra 3.5" balls, I'd be interested to purchase them..

I love those trade stimulators too looks great
Getting back to the rich toy bowling game and the magic pin setter ,it really is magic ,you grasp the front of the bowling pin rack ,lift and Abra cadabra they rest ,at least to a three year old ,

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When Bowling Alleys Die.....

A friend came across some bowling Alley wood lanes, after a demo.
He chose to make this table from the wood.

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Looks great. I considered using bowling alley lane for a workbench top until I read that the laminations are held together by buckets full of nails from hell and over time will leach out the wax that was absorbed over the decades.

I can attest to this. There are a ton of nails throughout. I havent seen any oil coming out of it though. Built my bench over 10 years ago now.

Nice work. It reminds me my son in law used discarded bowling alley lanes for a kitchen benchtop a couple of years ago in renovating an apartment.

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Just imagine how many balls were on that counter! Kidding aside that looks amazing.

Not an em question per say
But does anyone who has a ball bowler that was converted digitally know the dip switch settings to change difficulty?
The Harris conversion ones

My 4 bowlers lined up in the garage, no space left for them in the game room, but always fun.

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Picked up this Norris Master nut machine last week while on vacation. I always thought it was a cool model. One day I may polish up all the aluminum but I spent a couple hours this morning cleaning out a sticky conglomerate of old nuts. Blech. Just happy to have it back together for now.

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Nice score!
Masters are one of my All time favorite gum/peanut machines.
I highly recommend you don’t polish it.
It took me about 5 years (25 years ago)to collect these and I stopped collecting when prices rose significantly due to eBay etc.
The wall mount brackets were very hard to find at the time.

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Price check on this I picked up recently
Looks complete minus the coin escalator
And the badge in front

Has mills mech inside, coin box, back door and key.

Pretty neat machine has vintage arm too

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Amazing. I am kicking the idea of a puck bowler around lately.

They are a lot of fun with multiple players and usually can be found reasonably priced. Down side, many, many score reels to go through but worth the time.

The casting work on those is so cool

Score reels are considered dirty words around my house not to be uttered aloud. 50's score reels are the absolute worst as whatever grease they used just solidifies. Gotta figure about 30 mins per score reel when doing a thorough cleaning which sucks when the game has 24 of them. However, when your done and the whole family or friends are playing it you get one hell of a great feeling.

Take them apart one at a time. Soak each part in acetone. Use synthetic grease and oil when re-assembling.

And buy extra "ogeesis" clips before you start...you'll lose a few, then realize how much more careful you become toward the end.

The end result is so satisfying to see all of the reels work right.
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So true the end result ramegoom. I tended to take my time on this one, because it was such a pleasure to restore a ball bowler, and from memory I spent about 45mins to completely restore each score reel assembly.

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Just finished restoration of my Venus Shuffle Targette...I thought the score reels would never end. Fortunately, I learned my lesson about the paper reels from a previous restore. (As an aside, does anyone carry the replacement paper score reels?)

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Nice job on the Venus. Any of those Shuffle Target machines are nice players and a plus for a game room.
What, a few of the score reels are not in too good of shape?

No, they are actually fine...some dark spots, but that gives it character. Just wondered if there was any source for these. Probably doesn't matter as my game room is pretty darn full now anyhow, but I am a sucker for those old arcade games.

Those are fun. I redid mine and ended up doing some cooling mods for it, and I take it to some Shows locally. CLE-Pin 2017 I believe.
Of Course the lineup of EM arcades are mine

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Oh, okay. Because if you needed any, I probably could have spared a couple..

Do you mean you had a Venus and did some mods, or you did the mods to the Kick-a-Poo?
I had a Comet, a couple Playboys, a few Venuses, and a Kick-a-Poo which is set up in the
game room. Because of the Shoot Again option, I kept the Kick-a-Poo..
I still have a Venus. Once I go through it, I'm thinking about modifying it so if a 70 is scored,
the player Shoots Again as in Kick-a-Poo. To me, it's a good size plus for game play..

such a sweeeeeet lineup!

I modified my Kickapoo and mounted cooling fans around the flash motor and solenoid assembly that keeps the flash enabled. It gets so hot, it would burn up at a show. The high CFM help really circulate air in there

Oh yes. For pretty much non-stop play..
With yours, I thought I spotted a 3rd Kick-a-Poo, but it
must be yours is the one I once saw a pic of at a show..

Hmm, haven't noticed any excessive heat and there didn't seem to be any telltale signs of it. The load on the motor seems so light that I would think you need to run pretty much non-stop for it to be an issue (like what you probably experience at a show) I was thinking/hoping you may have come up with something like randomized variable speed flash motor to add to the game play.

I really like the game, definitely has that 'one more time' appeal. Something as simple as the flash motor really enhances game play. You focus too much on the throw and you end up with a 10 x 5...or focus too much on the throw and you get a 50 X 1.

Yeah the shows make the flash motor never stop. It’s a super fun game to play. A cool twist to puck bowling and skeeball.

Do tell? Have any pics of the wall bracket?
I just picked up a Master and a Northwestern 33.

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That "Master" is a sharp looking machine. Great coin mech.

Nice machines!
Here’s a pic of a wall mount. There is a hole for a padlock on the bottom so it cannot be removed from the wall.
There seems to be a fair amount of Master machines that survived but the wall mounts were hard to find. Maybe it’s just my area of the northeast.

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Here are a few other gum/vending machines.
I love the Service decal.
Cast iron Columbus Stand was not easy to find.

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Columbus capsule (aspirin) /marble vendor.
Cast iron Victor bulk vendor.

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All these gum machines, I'm sure some of you guys have some Pulvers. I always wanted one,but they are crazy money

I recently got this Ford gum ball machine along with gum disposal tissues and what I presume is a penny counting tray.

We didn’t have much money when I was a kid- about the only extra candy my mother would give me money for was a penny for a gum ball from a machine just like this one.

Mom also used to give me a dime to play a big ball bowler at a department store we used to go to (in Watervliet, NY) called Two Guys.

Great memories!

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Two Guys was one of the local department stores in southern New Jersey, in the seventies.

Nearby Cherry Hill mall in Cherry Hill, NJ, built in 1961, was the first indoor, climate controlled mall, east of the Mississippi.

It amazes me that Ford still makes gum just a few miles from me in Akron, NY. Smells like gum near the plant.