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1960 · Williams

Black Jack

Starry magenta and purple night sky with swirling blue cloud bands, cream and tan billowing clouds along the bottom edge, castles with conical turrets at bottom left and bottom right and red and yellow sunburst rays radiating from the top centre.

Year
1960
Maker
Williams
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Backglass lights
Players
1

Made by

Design
Harry Mabs
Art
George Molentin

Vision analysis

On the playfield

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Black Jack playfield

Playfield

  • pink
  • cream
  • teal
  • yellow

Fingerprint: Giant overlapping fan of playing cards splaying from central special disc on teal spade-shaped background, three black-capped pop bumpers reading jet ringed by green bumpers, plastic rooster figures guarding bumpers, pink-yellow scalloped fan with card-shaped when lit targets

Distinctive

The centre of the playfield is a giant overlapping fan of real playing cards splaying from a round 'SPECIAL' disc, painted on a teal spade-shaped background - it looks like a hand of cards thrown down the middle of the table. Two black-capped pop bumpers in the middle read the word 'JET' in white, ringed by two green bumpers reading 100,000 WHEN LIT. A pair of large plastic roosters stand guard above the bumpers, one on each side. At the top is a scalloped pink-and-yellow fan carrying three card-shaped 'WHEN LIT' targets: an Ace of Spades, a JOKER and the Queen of Clubs. A pair of white flippers sit below a pair of enormous painted white angel wings.

Setting

  • Indoor card room / circus and fairground motifs
  • Flat painted playfield artwork with no photographic scenery

Symbols

  • Playing-card suits (spade, heart, club, diamond)
  • Joker card
  • Queen of clubs
  • Ace of spades
  • Stars
  • Circus tents
  • Card fans
  • Bell/hole plastics
  • Red triangular pennants
  • Five-pointed stars in ribbon banners

Art motifs

  • Overlapping playing-card fan
  • Spade silhouette
  • Scalloped carnival fan backdrop
  • Circus big top tents
  • Art-deco geometric bursts
  • Pennant flags

Themes

  • Playing cards
  • Poker
  • Blackjack
  • Jackpot
  • Circus
  • Bonus
  • Skill shot

Text on it

  • WHEN LIT
  • JOKER
  • ON 4TH BUMPERS
  • ON 5TH BUMPERS
  • ON 6TH BUMPERS
  • 100,000 WHEN LIT
  • JET
  • 500,000 WHEN LIT
  • 500000 WHEN LIT
  • 300000
  • SPECIAL
  • BLACKJACK
  • R PINBALL
  • FLIPPER
  • FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY - NO PRIZES - NO WAGERING
  • BALLS PLAYED
  • 5 BALLS
  • 10c PER PLAY
  • PUSH LOWER PLUNGER FOR BALL
  • Star Harris & Co.
  • COIN MACHINES
  • CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
  • CALL BA 3-5362
  • HERITAGE
  • 5,000,000
  • 1 Replay
  • 2 Replays
  • 10-74
Ramps
Two short sloped plastics at lower left and lower right (left ramp and right ramp), each printed with circus tents and stars; no upper wireform ramp visible
Slingshots
Standard triangular slingshots above each flipper, with white plastic flipper bats reading flipper
Upper playfield
Scalloped pink-and-yellow arc with ace of spades / joker / queen of clubs when lit targets and two rows of upright bonus markers
Apron and lower playfield
Cream apron covered in instruction and score text: a blackjack paytable, star harris & co. coin machine plate, chicago illinois address, call ba 3-5362, a balls played window with a cartoon ball-boy, 5 balls 10c per play, for amusement only - no prizes - no wagering, plus chrome lockdown bar and coin door below
Who and what
Kind Description
Animal Two illustrated cockerels/roosters, one to the left of the bumpers and one to the right, red and green plumage, beaks open, crowing
Creature Small red crab-like or lobster figure on the left ramp plastic beside the circus tents
Creature Small yellow jester or cupid figure with a trumpet on the right ramp plastic
Other Two large painted white angel wings spreading up from the centre bottom between the flippers
Other Circus tents, stars and a clown face printed on the two sloped ramp plastics at lower left and lower right
Full description

A 1960s-era solid-state-era electromechanical card-table playfield shot from above through the glass, with the whole cream cabinet, chrome lockdown bar and coin door visible. The painted wood is a kaleidoscopic card-room design: a huge fan of overlapping playing cards (ace of spades, ace of hearts, ace of clubs, ace of diamonds and mixed number cards with 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s and 8s) splays out from a central round 'SPECIAL' jackpot disc on a teal-green spade-shaped panel at mid-field. Above sit four round bumpers in a diamond, two green-capped reading 100,000 WHEN LIT and two black-capped reading JET, flanked by two plastic rooster/cockerel figures. The upper arc is a pink-and-yellow scalloped fan of 'WHEN LIT' targets shaped like the Ace of Spades, a JOKER and the Queen of Clubs, flanked by illustrated upright rocket- and cone-shaped bonus markers. Lower field has two big pink ramps/lane plastics printed with circus tents, stars, a jester and a cupid, a pair of white flippers, a huge pair of white wings, blue and red star-studded lane guides, and cream text panels on the apron.

On the backglass

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Black Jack backglass

Backglass

  • magenta
  • yellow
  • red
  • blue

Fingerprint: BLACK JACK giant playing cards ace of diamonds and jack of spades floating on green fan shape; four grinning Renaissance court-card characters sitting around green oval card table; left side dominated by two ladders of number markers colored ovals 900 down to 100, round discs 8 down to 1; money bags hanging under table

Distinctive

A giant pair of playing cards top right - an ace of diamonds and a jack of spades - floating on a green fan shape. Four grinning cartoon court-card characters in Renaissance-style caps and doublets crowd around a green oval card table with cards in hand. The left side is dominated by two long ladders of number markers, coloured oval capsules 900 down to 100 and round discs 8 down to 1, ending in the words THOUSANDS and MILLIONS. A cream scroll in the centre reads CARD SCORE with the digits 1 and 6 in two windows. Money bags hang under the table beside a DEALERS SCORE banner showing 19.

Setting

  • Starry magenta and purple night sky with swirling blue cloud bands
  • Cream and tan billowing clouds along the bottom edge
  • Castles with conical turrets at bottom left and bottom right
  • Red and yellow sunburst rays radiating from the top centre

Symbols

  • Ace of diamonds playing card
  • Jack of spades playing card
  • Crescent moon with face
  • Five-pointed stars scattered across the sky
  • Hot-air balloon with wicker basket
  • Parachute
  • Castle towers with conical roofs
  • Strings of gold coin bags
  • Pointed red and yellow triangular flags
  • Red banner ribbon
  • Green money sacks

Lettering

  • Large yellow serif capitals with red outline and white drop shadow for the title, arched; small cursive script above; block sans-serif capitals in green on the cream scroll banner; white capitals on coloured discs and capsules down the left side

Themes

  • Playing cards
  • Card game
  • Court cards
  • Fantasy castle
  • Hot-air balloon
  • Scoring ladders
  • Airbrushed cartoon

Title on it

  • Black jack

Text on it

  • Williams
  • BLACK JACK
  • CARD SCORE
  • 1
  • 6
  • 900
  • 800
  • 700
  • 600
  • 500
  • 400
  • 300
  • 200
  • 100
  • THOUSANDS
  • MILLIONS
  • 8
  • 7
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • DEALERS SCORE
  • 19
  • 30
  • A
  • J
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Red-haired woman on the left of the table in profile, wearing a green and gold flat cap with a yellow band and a red and green bodice, holding playing cards
Man Mustachioed man with brown hair and a pointed goatee, wearing a red and yellow patterned robe and a red and gold crown, seated at the back of the table
Woman Blonde woman in a blue dress with a white ruffled collar and a small blue crown, eyes closed and smiling, holding a fan of cards
Woman Blonde woman on the right in a red and gold striped flat hat and red top, looking towards the others, holding cards
Other Small figure at bottom left descending under a blue and yellow striped parachute, wearing red and blue, above cream clouds
Other Tiny figure standing in the wicker basket of the blue hot-air balloon on the right
Creature Pale crescent moon with a sleeping face in the right centre sky
Full description

Tall portrait backglass with a wide cream/grey outer border framing a bright magenta-and-purple starry sky. Across the top, curved red-and-yellow sunburst rays carry the title in large yellow serif capitals with red outline and white drop shadow, with a smaller cursive name above it. Down the left edge, two vertical columns of scoring markers: an inner column of oval capsules numbered 900 down to 100 in white on alternating green, yellow, orange, red, blue and green, with the word THOUSANDS on a white banner beneath, and an outer column of round discs showing 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 in coloured numerals, ending in MILLIONS. Below the title, a cream scroll banner edged with green scallops reads CARD SCORE over two windows showing 1 and 6. Centre-lower, four cartoon court-card figures sit around a green oval card table: two red-haired women in green-and-gold flat caps, a mustachioed king in a red-and-yellow robe and crown, a blonde woman in a blue dress, and a blonde woman in a red-and-gold striped hat, all holding playing cards. Under them, hanging green money bags and a red ribbon banner reading DEALERS SCORE, with 19 printed on one bag and a pink 30 below. The lower right shows striped green, orange and blue castle turrets, cream clouds, a green THOUSANDS flag, a blue hot-air balloon and a crescent moon; the lower left shows a small figure with a blue-and-yellow parachute.