Memory Lane

A photographed early-1960s electro-mechanical ten-pin bowling playfield, portrait orientation, lit by warm lamp glare. The background is bright yellow-gold with a huge yellow-and-blue star spanning the centre, red triangular kick-out panels at mid-left and mid-right, and a fan of red, white and blue feathered rays filling both upper corners. Artwork of pin-spotters: a blonde woman in a low-cut orange top at the top right, a seated woman in pink and a man in a dark suit playing cards at a table top left, a woman in blue jeans and a red top standing at the left mid-deck, a man in a yellow shirt aiming a cue on the right, and two large grinning pin-setter girls flanking the lower centre. Two sunburst pop-bumper caps with white bowling pins sit side by side in the upper middle. Ten numbered rollovers (1 through 10) form a large yellow triangle under a 'STRIKES' panel, with a 7-box strike-indicator row of red X squares above it. Hardware includes wire ramps, chrome ball guides, four orange starburst 'SPINNER' saucers, red-cue lights, and two chrome flippers. The white lower deck carries a printed instruction card, a 'KICKBACK' credit notice, and a manufacturer plate.

A rectangular painted backglass panel in a white metal bezel showing a mid-century drive-in car-hop scene under a night sky. Across the upper third a teal-green signboard carries the title MEMORY LANE in tall cream block capitals with dark outlines and a pale drop shadow. Three mechanical score windows sit behind the signboard: a wide two-reel window at the very top inside a blue arc of sky with radiating white light streaks, and two smaller two-reel windows lower down, flanked by painted blue-and-white propeller-fan motifs. Five people are drawn: a curly red-haired woman in a green blouse at left with a dark-haired man in a pale blue shirt behind her; a brunette in a cream top and tight blue jeans perched sideways on the rear wing of a large orange-and-white 1950s convertible, one leg dangling; two men in shirts and caps talking in the background at right; and a large auburn-haired woman in a green-and-yellow striped top at the right edge holding a dark green panel with four glowing orange number windows. The car dominates the lower half with a huge chrome grille, round headlamps, a chrome bumper, whitewall tyres with blue centres and a red '0' in the dashboard window. Teal, cream, orange and salmon pink dominate.