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1949 · Chicago Coin

Champion

Indoor basketball gymnasium, blue brick wall, white speckled crowd texture, green floor and maroon banner lozenge.

Year
1949
Maker
Chicago Coin
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.

Champion backglass

Backglass

  • blue
  • red
  • yellow
  • white

Fingerprint: Arched white script "Champion" with black-red-yellow shadows filling upper section above basketball-gymnasium scene, grey-haired athlete in red vest holding ball overhead with tilted head, tiny woman in yellow running at his knees, coloured score ladder blocks on left edge, flat mid-century cartoon rendering

Distinctive

The enormous arched white script word Champion, slanted hard to the right and outlined in black, red and yellow, dominating the whole upper half of the glass. Beneath it a hulking grey-haired athlete in a red vest marked CC, seen from below with a basketball held overhead and his head tilted back in a roar, while a tiny woman in a yellow vest runs at his knees. The dual scoring ladders are unusually physical: a MILLION bonus column running 900,000 down to 100,000 in coloured blocks on the left, and a yellow 1ST PLACE to 10TH PLACE ranking strip on the right.

Setting

  • Indoor basketball gymnasium
  • Blue brick wall
  • White speckled crowd texture
  • Green floor
  • Maroon banner lozenge

Symbols

  • Basketball
  • Basketball hoop with net
  • Four round indicator lamps in white, red, yellow and green
  • White stars on blue brick wall
  • Crowd of white speckles
  • Colour-coded score blocks

Lettering

  • Huge slanted white brush script with thick black, red and yellow drop shadows for the title; condensed white and yellow block capitals with black outlines on coloured panels for all scoring and instruction text; small arched cream capitals above the title

Themes

  • Basketball
  • Sports
  • Team competition
  • Gymnasium
  • Championship

Title on it

  • Champion

Text on it

  • CHAS.A.EIN'S
  • Champion
  • MILLION
  • 900,000
  • 800,000
  • 700,000
  • 600,000
  • 500,000
  • 400,000
  • 300,000
  • 200,000
  • 100,000
  • TEAM POSITION
  • 1ST PLACE
  • 2ND PLACE
  • 3RD PLACE
  • 4TH PLACE
  • 5TH PLACE
  • 6TH PLACE
  • 7TH PLACE
  • 8TH PLACE
  • 9TH PLACE
  • 10TH PLACE
  • CC
  • OPPONENT'S SCORE
Who and what
Kind Description
Man Large muscular adult male, short grey-blond swept-back hair, square jaw, head tilted back with mouth open; red singlet vest with white letters cc, navy blue shorts, dark knee pads on both knees; right arm raised above head holding a white basketball, left arm extended out to the side; bare feet
Woman Smaller slimmer adult female behind the man's legs at left, short dark hair, yellow singlet top, maroon shorts, one leg lifted mid-run, arms bent; pale skin
Full description

Illustrated basketball-gymnasium backglass in flat mid-century cartoon style, edged by a plywood cabinet frame. The huge arched word Champion, in slanted white script with heavy black and red drop shadows and yellow trim, sweeps across the upper half on a maroon lozenge banner. Above it, small arched cream capitals read CHAS.A.EIN'S, with four round indicator lamps in white, red, yellow and green at top left. Centre is a big square-jawed, grey-blond man in a red singlet bearing white letters CC, navy shorts and dark knee pads, head thrown back and mouth open, right arm raised holding a white basketball, left arm flung out. A smaller woman in a yellow singlet and maroon shorts runs behind his legs. Behind is a blue brick gym wall speckled white with a crowd of dots, green floor, and a blue-tinted hoop with net at top right. The left edge carries a MILLION ladder of white numerals on coloured blocks, 900,000 down to 100,000. A dark right strip reads TEAM POSITION above yellow labels 1ST PLACE to 10TH PLACE. A maroon footer reads OPPONENT'S SCORE above panels numbered 2 to 11.