1954 · Gottlieb
Jockey Club
Aerial view of a dirt horse-racing oval track, green infield grass with white rails, red-brick grandstand with white window rows, sky-blue sky with white clouds behind the logo and green turf verge along the bottom.
- 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
- green
- yellow
- red
- blue
Fingerprint: Giant golden horseshoe arch at top left with numerals 1-7 in red and green, white-on-blue JOCKEY CLUB logo inside, oval dirt racing track seen from above ringed by white rails, parade of five women in playsuits and pageant sash past chestnut horse in floral rug, nine-window coloured score oval panel
The most memorable element is the giant golden horseshoe arch at the top left whose limbs are made of the numerals 1 to 7 in alternating red and green, ringing the white-on-blue JOCKEY CLUB logo. Second, an oval dirt racing track seen from above, ringed by white rails, with a lone grandstand on the grass inside it. Third, a parade of five women in skimpy red, yellow and blue playsuits and a white pageant sash walking along the bottom edge past a chestnut horse wearing a floral rug. Fourth, a nine-window panel of coloured rounded score ovals stacked in three columns of three. Fifth, a yellow oval DOUBLE AWARD banner tucked into the bottom-left corner.
Setting
- Aerial view of a dirt horse-racing oval track
- Green infield grass with white rails
- Red-brick grandstand with white window rows
- Sky-blue sky with white clouds behind the logo
- Green turf verge along the bottom
Symbols
- Golden horseshoe arch
- Progress numerals 1 to 7
- Nine coloured score ovals
- White track rails and posts
- Grandstand with window rows
- Points signboard
- Floral horse rug
- Script ribbon
- Pageant sash
- Pageant flowers
Lettering
- Chunky white sans-serif capitals with red and green offset drop shadows for the main title; smaller black brush script for the gottlieb's line and the company signature; red capitals arcing over the horseshoe for millions; red block capitals with white and yellow shadowing for double award; white capitals on a red board for points; large white numerals with red shadowing inside the coloured score ovals.
Themes
- Horse racing
- Racetrack
- Jockey
- Pageant
- Sports
- Outdoor racing
Title on it
- Jockey club
Text on it
- MILLIONS
- Gottlieb's
- JOCKEY CLUB
- 7
- 6
- 5
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
- POINTS
- DOUBLE AWARD
- D. Gottlieb & Co.
- 70,000
- 400,000
- 700,000
- 800,000
- 500,000
- 200,000
- 900,000
- 600,000
- 300,000
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Far left, small in scale, standing in a blue playsuit with white trim and a pale hat/hair, arms bent in front of her |
| Woman | Red-haired with a large red bow, in profile facing right, wearing a red two-piece |
| Woman | Short black hair, red strapless top and matching shorts, wearing a white pageant sash diagonally across her chest, walking right |
| Woman | Platinum blonde bob, red playsuit with a pale blue/white collar or scarf, walking right |
| Woman | Auburn hair in a rolled style, yellow strapless bikini-style top and yellow shorts, holding the reins of the horse beside her |
| Animal | Chestnut/brown horse, head lowered left, draped in a dark green rug covered with pink and white flowers, a white ribbon with red script curls across the grass in front of it |
| Man | Jockey at the right: red peaked cap, yellow jersey with red horizontal bands and a red collar, pale blue jodhpurs and tall red-and-black boots, holding a pale grey saddle cloth, standing on the green turf |
A backglass in flat mid-century cartoon style showing an aerial view of a dirt horse-racing oval. Upper left is a horseshoe-shaped golden-yellow arch: red-and-green numerals 7, 6, 5 climb the left limb, 1, 2, 3, 4 the right, with red MILLIONS arcing over the top. Inside, white block letters with red and green drop shadows spell JOCKEY CLUB on sky blue, with black script Gottlieb's above. Upper right is a nine-window score panel of white-outlined rounded ovals on turquoise, tinted red, yellow or green, reading 70,000 / 400,000 / 700,000, 800,000 / 500,000 / 200,000 and 900,000 / 600,000 / 300,000. The centre is a pale-tan dirt track looping around a bright green infield with white rails, a red-brick grandstand with white window rows, and a small brick building topped by a red POINTS signboard. Along the bottom edge a woman in a blue playsuit, three women in red and yellow two-pieces (one in a white sash), a chestnut horse draped in a floral rug, and a jockey in a yellow jersey with red bands and pale blue jodhpurs move left to right across green turf. A yellow oval reads DOUBLE AWARD; a white-and-red cartouche reads D. Gottlieb & Co.