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1966 · Chicago Coin

Festival

Fairground / funfair midway, striped circus tent and bunting, hot-air balloons, palm trees, striped beach huts and green wooden plank floor.

Year
1966
Maker
Chicago Coin
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Score reels
Players
4

Made by

Design
Al Schlappa
Design
Jerry Koci
Design
John Gore

Vision analysis

On the backglass

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

Festival backglass

Backglass

  • pink
  • yellow
  • mint green
  • red

Fingerprint: Enormous word FESTIVAL tall slightly bowed pink block capitals dominates centre, crowned yellow starburst reading 4 PLAYER cursive Change from script, four separate mint-green rounded player panels numbered 1-4, fairground dance scene young couples green plank floor hot-air balloons palm trees bunting striped circus tent background

Distinctive

The single enormous word FESTIVAL in tall, slightly bowed pink block capitals dominates the centre, crowned by a yellow starburst reading 4 PLAYER with cursive Change from script. Four separate mint-green rounded player panels with individual digit windows are arranged two above and two below the title, each numbered 1 to 4. A fairground dance scene of young couples dancing on a green plank floor fills the bottom third, with hot-air balloons, palm trees, bunting and a striped circus tent behind them. Small instruction text sits in the bottom corners, with PRESS legible at the left.

Setting

  • Fairground / funfair midway
  • Striped circus tent and bunting
  • Hot-air balloons
  • Palm trees
  • Striped beach huts
  • Green wooden plank floor

Symbols

  • Yellow eight-pointed starburst
  • Hot-air balloons
  • Striped circus tent
  • Bunting flags
  • Palm trees
  • Striped beach huts
  • Playing-card-style score windows
  • Curtain swags framing the top corners
  • Paper lanterns

Lettering

  • Large tall bowed pink block capitals with dark red outline and white highlight for the main title; black capitals inside a yellow starburst above; cursive slanted script for change from; red serif capitals with white outline for the player captions

Themes

  • Fairground
  • Funfair
  • Festival
  • Four player
  • Dance
  • Holiday
  • Cartoon illustration

Title on it

  • Festival

Text on it

  • Change from
  • 4 PLAYER
  • FESTIVAL
  • 1ST PLAYER
  • 2ND PLAYER
  • 3RD PLAYER
  • 4TH PLAYER
  • 0 0 8 4
  • 0 0 0 0
  • GAME
  • PLAYER
  • PRESS
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Central group, brunette in a pink blouse and blue skirt, dancing with one arm raised
Woman Central group, blonde in a short orange skirt with white trim, dancing
Man Central group, tall young man with dark hair in a red/orange shirt and blue flared trousers, dancing
Man Central group, man in blue behind the women, partly obscured, dancing
Man Lower left, dark-haired man in a white shirt and red trousers sitting on the floor
Woman Lower left, seated woman with long auburn hair in a pink top and grey skirt holding a drink
Child Lower left centre, small girl in a pink dress standing
Woman Lower centre-right, seated woman in a red top, partly hidden
Man Lower right, older man in a yellow shirt and tan trousers sitting cross-legged with a drink
Man Lower right, man in a red cap and blue top leaning in to talk
Child Lower right, boy in blue sitting on a small box stool
Full description

A painted, cartoon-styled backglass built around one huge central title word, FESTIVAL, in tall curved pink-and-white block letters with dark red outline, sitting over a radiating sunburst of pink, yellow and olive-green vertical stripes. Four pale-mint rounded score panels fill the upper half: two across the top (marked 1 and 2) and two lower (marked 3 and 4), each holding four small white square windows with black digits, captioned 1ST PLAYER, 2ND PLAYER, 3RD PLAYER and 4TH PLAYER in red-and-white serif capitals. Above the title a yellow eight-pointed starburst reads 4 PLAYER in black, with cursive script Change from slanted beside it. The middle band shows fairground scenery: hot-air balloons, striped tents, bunting, palms and a beach hut. The lower third is packed with fairground figures on a green wooden-plank floor: a central group of four young adults dancing, plus seated couples and a small child in pink at the left and a man in a red cap talking to a boy in blue at the right. Dominant colours are pink, yellow, mint green, red and sky blue.