1949 · United
Carolina
Sunny rural countryside with a curving country road, pale blue sky with white clouds, rolling green hills and grass verge, dark green leafy trees on the right, brown wooden fence running across the right foreground, white post carrying letter signs and white rural mailbox on a post at right.
- Year
- 1949
- Maker
- United
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Backglass lights
- Players
- 1
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- green
- yellow
- magenta
- red
Fingerprint: united's carolina: red-haired woman in broad straw sunhat and red-white striped blouse seated sideways on brown wooden fence with legs crossed, four stacked colour-coded letter signs A B C D on white post beside her, black wavy-edged scroll THOUSANDS across upper third, ten numbered coloured ovals 1 to 10 down left edge
The most memorable element is a red-haired woman in a broad straw sunhat, red-and-white striped blouse and teal jeans, sitting sideways on a brown wooden fence with her legs crossed, against a sunny rural landscape. A white fence post beside her carries four stacked, colour-coded letter signs reading A, B, C and D. The whole upper third is a black, wavy-edged scoring scroll headed THOUSANDS, with three undulating rows of bonus numbers beneath it. A ten-high column of differently coloured numbered ovals (1 to 10) runs the full height of the left edge. The title sits low and left in a magenta box: UNITED'S above the very large yellow word CAROLINA.
Setting
- Sunny rural countryside with a curving country road
- Pale blue sky with white clouds
- Rolling green hills and grass verge
- Dark green leafy trees on the right
- Brown wooden fence running across the right foreground
- White post carrying letter signs
- White rural mailbox on a post at right
Symbols
- Ten numbered ovals stacked vertically (1-10)
- Four colour-coded letter signs a, b, c, d on a white post
- White mailbox marked mail
- Wooden split-rail fence
- Wide-brimmed straw hat
- Curving country road
Lettering
- Hand-painted cartoon poster lettering: bold condensed sans-serif capitals for carolina in yellow with dark outline on a magenta plaque, small white sans-serif united's above it, and a slightly slanted retro yellow display face for thousands on black. numbers are chunky rounded display forms in alternating bright colours with black keylines.
Themes
- Rural countryside
- Southern usa
- Hill country
- Picnic / country life
- Bonus scoring table
Title on it
- United's carolina
Text on it
- THOUSANDS
- 100
- 200
- 300
- 400
- 10
- 20
- 30
- 40
- 50
- 60
- 70
- 80
- 90
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- UNITED'S
- CAROLINA
- A
- B
- C
- D
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Young adult woman with curly red/auburn hair under a wide-brimmed woven straw sunhat with a red band. fair skin, painted red lips, head turned to the left. wearing a red-and-white horizontally striped short-sleeved blouse tucked into high-waisted teal-blue jeans, and white lace-up shoes. seated astride the top rail of a brown wooden fence, one leg crossed over the other, hands resting on the rail, smiling. |
A bright cartoon backglass. The upper third is a black, wavy-edged scroll banner edged in yellow, carrying THOUSANDS in slanted yellow capitals, under which sit three undulating rows of scoring numbers: 100 200 300 400 in red, magenta, yellow and red, then 10 through 90, then 1 through 9 in pink, green, red and purple. Down the whole left edge runs a stack of ten numbered ovals, 1 to 10, each a different colour with a black outline. At centre-left a magenta plaque reads UNITED'S in small white caps above CAROLINA in huge condensed yellow capitals. The right half shows a red-haired woman in a wide-brimmed straw sunhat, red-and-white striped blouse, teal jeans and white lace-up shoes, perched on a brown fence rail with one leg crossed, looking left. Beside her a white post carries four stacked letter signs A, B, C and D in red, blue, purple and red; further right is a white mailbox marked MAIL. The background is a curving country road, green hills, pale blue sky and dark green trees. No score reels appear, only printed number tables.