1948 · United
Monterrey
Deep blue night sky with white firework streaks, white twin-towered mission church with domes and bell towers, green trees and balustrade, green hills at right and purple upper banner behind the million captions.
- Year
- 1948
- Maker
- United
- 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.
Backglass
- blue
- purple
- yellow
- red
Fingerprint: MONTERREY in huge arched red block capitals with yellow outline, red script United's tucked above, mariachi ensemble playing before white twin-towered mission church, blonde woman in red off-shoulder gown, double ladder of scores with top arc of nine cards and left-hand vertical ribbon column, coloured firework bursts
The most memorable element is the arched red-and-yellow MONTERREY logo with the small red script United's tucked above its left shoulder, set against a firework-filled blue night sky with a row of numbered starburst balloons. A second strong memory cue is the double ladder of scores: a top arc of nine cards reading 100 to 900 and a left-hand vertical ribbon column stepping 90.000 down to 10.000. Third is the mariachi ensemble at the bottom - five musicians and dancers in sombreros and ruffled skirts posed before a white twin-towered mission church. A fourth cue is the row of coloured fireworks bursts spelling out 1,000 to 9,000 across the upper sky.
Setting
- Deep blue night sky with white firework streaks
- White twin-towered mission church with domes and bell towers
- Green trees and balustrade
- Green hills at right
- Purple upper banner behind the million captions
Symbols
- Starburst firework rosettes with values
- String of coloured festival lights
- Nine tilted score cards
- Colourful ribbon score ladder
- Concentric yellow and green target rings at top left
- White street lamp at upper left
- Playing-card-like colour blocks along the right edge
- Balustrade railing
Lettering
- Hand-lettered mid-century sign painting; small red cursive united's above huge arched slab-serif block capitals monterrey in red with cream and yellow outline and dark drop shadow; reward captions in heavy outlined cursive; score numerals in plain white or black sans-serif on coloured panels
Themes
- Mexican fiesta
- Mariachi band
- Carnival
- Fireworks
- Scores ladder
- Millions bonus
Title on it
- Monterrey
Text on it
- 1 Million
- 2 Million
- 3 Million
- 4 Million
- 100
- 200
- 300
- 400
- 500
- 600
- 700
- 800
- 900
- 000
- United's
- MONTERREY
- 90.000
- 80.000
- 70.000
- 60.000
- 50.000
- 40.000
- 30.000
- 20.000
- 10.000
- 1,000
- 2,000
- 3,000
- 4,000
- 5,000
- 6,000
- 7,000
- 8,000
- 9,000
- 16
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Left foreground, blonde wavy hair, red off-shoulder gown with white trim, bare shoulder, looking forward, head and shoulders above the score ladder |
| Man | Seated centre-left, wide yellow sombrero, blue-grey patterned shirt, holding a large red guitar |
| Man | Seated centre, yellow sombrero, red shirt, playing a red-brown violin with bow |
| Man | Seated centre-right, yellow sombrero, red and white striped serape, playing a guitar |
| Woman | Centre-right dancer seen from behind, huge swirling magenta and blue ruffled skirt, dark hair, arms raised |
| Man | Right, dark slicked hair, white shirt, red tie, head and shoulders in profile looking left |
| Woman | Right background, black hair, red and white tiered ruffled dress, standing in profile |
| Other | Black and yellow striped upright pole or banner at lower left behind the score ladder |
Illuminated backglass in a wood-framed cabinet showing a Mexican fiesta. A purple top banner carries four coloured reward captions in large outlined cursive: pink 1 Million, yellow 2 Million, orange 3 Million, green 4 Million. Below, an arc of nine tilted score cards reads 100 to 900, each with 000 beneath. Down the left edge a vertical ladder of ribbon bars steps 90.000 down to 10.000 in white numerals. The centre is a bright blue night sky with white firework streaks and a row of coloured starburst balloons carrying 1,000 to 9,000. Small red script United's sits above huge arched block capitals MONTERREY in red with white and yellow outline. Below, before a white mission church with two bell towers and domes, a mariachi ensemble plays: a blonde woman in a red off-shoulder gown at left, three men in yellow sombreros with guitars and a violin, a dancer in a swirling magenta ruffled skirt, a woman in a red-and-white tiered dress, and a dark-haired man in a white shirt and red tie at bottom right.