1954 · Gottlieb
Hawaiian Beauty
Turquoise-blue sky, yellow sand foreground, distant purple and magenta headlands, sea horizon with a small two-masted sailing ship, leaning coconut palm tree on the right and yellow sun disc behind the title.
- Year
- 1954
- Maker
- Gottlieb
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Backglass lights
- Players
- 1
Made by
- Design
- Wayne Neyens
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- yellow
- red
- green
Fingerprint: "HAWAIIAN" and "Beauty" on large pale-yellow sun disc; reclining hula dancer center-right in green grass skirt and flower lei; nine colored score boxes 100,000-900,000 arcing in rainbow under "MILLION" banner; four Polynesian women with flowers and leis; beach sand, coconut palm, sailing ship, turquoise sky, mid-century cartoon
The most memorable element is the pale-yellow sun disc in the centre carrying the red HAWAIIAN Beauty lettering, which sits directly behind a reclining hula dancer in a green grass skirt. Second, the nine individual brightly coloured score-value boxes (100 000 through 900 000) stepping up in a rainbow arc under a yellow MILLION banner. Third, the leaning coconut palm on the right whose trunk crosses in front of the sky and whose fronds frame the Points script. Fourth, the red oval Double plaque tucked into the bottom left corner beside a small head emerging from the sand.
Setting
- Turquoise-blue sky
- Yellow sand foreground
- Distant purple and magenta headlands
- Sea horizon with a small two-masted sailing ship
- Leaning coconut palm tree on the right
- Yellow sun disc behind the title
Symbols
- Rainbow arc of coloured score boxes
- Coconut palm
- Flower leis
- Grass skirt
- Sailing ship
- Yellow sun disc
Lettering
- Bold red sans-serif capitals for million and the arched hawaiian, flowing red brush script for beauty, white cursive script for points and double, and white numerals in coloured rounded rectangles
Themes
- Tropical
- Hula
- Beach
- Music scoring
- Score values
Title on it
- Hawaiian beauty
Text on it
- MILLION
- Points
- 100 000
- 200 000
- 300 000
- 400 000
- 500 000
- 600 000
- 700 000
- 800 000
- 900 000
- HAWAIIAN
- Beauty
- Double
- D. Gottlieb & Co.
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Standing hula dancer at left, dark hair up, red top, holding a flower lei, facing right |
| Woman | Second standing hula dancer just right of her, dark bobbed hair, red top, holding a long green leaf or feathered skirt, facing right |
| Woman | Reclining woman centre-right, red top, green grass skirt, flower lei and head flowers, propped on one elbow in front of the yellow sun disc |
| Woman | Large profile bust at bottom right, facing left, red lei, white blossom behind the ear, dark wavy hair |
| Woman | Small head of a woman emerging from the sand at bottom left beside the double plaque, dark hair with white flowers |
| Vehicle | Small sailing ship with dark hull, two masts and white sails on the horizon |
A framed, brightly painted pinball backglass in a mid-century cartoon style, dominated by a rainbow of scoring values arcing across a turquoise-blue sky. A curved banner along the top reads MILLION in red block capitals on a yellow band, with Points in white cursive script on a green patch to the right. Below it, nine separate rounded rectangles in red, orange, yellow, green, teal and purple carry white score numbers running from 100 000 up to 900 000. The centre holds a large pale-yellow disc carrying the title, HAWAIIAN in arched red capitals above Beauty in large flowing red script. The setting is a Hawaiian beach: a yellow sand foreground, a small dark-hulled sailing ship with two masts on the horizon, purple and magenta headlands, and a leaning coconut palm with a segmented tan trunk on the right. Four Polynesian women are drawn on the sand: two standing hula dancers at the left holding flower leis and a feathered skirt, one reclining centre-right in a green grass skirt and flower lei, and one at the bottom right in profile with a red lei and a white blossom behind her ear. A red oval plaque at lower left reads Double in white script.