1953 · Williams
Palisades
Outdoor resort swimming pool patio, blue sky with white cumulus clouds, tall palm trees and palm fronds, green lawn, blue sea with distant mountains, grey paved pool deck and yellow flat-roofed cabana with white railing on the right.
- Year
- 1953
- Maker
- Williams
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Backglass lights
- Players
- 1
Made by
- Design
- Harry Williams
- Art
- George Molentin
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- green
- red
- yellow
Fingerprint: Palisades in red cursive outlined white, two palm trunks as score ladders 100-400 and 500-900, word MILLIONS, ten sunbathers around bright blue kidney pool, blonde in magenta bikini standing arms raised, yellow-roofed cabana right edge, red winged-sail lounge chair and pink flowering trees, 1960s cartoon resort style
A huge diagonal red cursive word Palisades across the sky, underscored by a small green cursive manufacturer word above it. Two palm trunks painted as scoring ladders, with 100-400 on one and 500-900 on the other, paired with the word MILLIONS. Ten sunbathers packed around a bright blue kidney-shaped pool, one blonde woman in a magenta bikini standing in the water with both arms thrown straight up. A bright yellow flat-roofed cabana with a white railing juts in at the right edge. Painted on top of the scenery, a red winged-sail lounge chair, a purple beach ball and two pink flowering trees in square yellow planters.
Setting
- Outdoor resort swimming pool patio
- Blue sky with white cumulus clouds
- Tall palm trees and palm fronds
- Green lawn
- Blue sea with distant mountains
- Grey paved pool deck
- Yellow flat-roofed cabana with white railing on the right
Symbols
- Beach ball with red, green, blue and white panels
- Solid purple ball
- Red winged-sail lounge chair
- Chrome pool ladder with curved handrails
- Two pink flowering trees in square yellow planters
- Rows of round yellow incandescent lamp dots beside the score numbers
- Sun loungers in red, yellow and teal
- Striped beach towel
Lettering
- Main title in very large slanted red brush-cursive with a white keyline and black drop shadow; a small bright-green cursive word above it; millions in widely spaced red sans-serif capitals at top left; score values in flat block sans-serif numerals coloured alternately yellow, blue, red and white on the brown palm trunks.
Themes
- Swimming pool
- Sunbathing
- Resort
- Palm trees
- Tropical holiday
- Summer leisure
- 1960s cartoon art
Title on it
- Palisades
Text on it
- MILLIONS
- Williams
- Palisades
- 100
- 200
- 300
- 400
- 500
- 600
- 700
- 800
- 900
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Blonde woman in white bikini seated on the pool edge at far left, legs into the water |
| Woman | Brunette woman in red one-piece swimsuit sitting cross-legged on the paving, left of centre |
| Woman | Red-haired woman in green two-piece seen from behind in the bottom-left corner, back and swimsuit straps visible |
| Man | Bare-chested dark-haired man swimming in the pool left of centre, head and shoulders above the water |
| Woman | Blonde woman in magenta bikini standing in the centre of the pool with both arms raised straight above her head, mouth open smiling |
| Man | Bare-chested man floating on his back in the upper right of the pool |
| Man | Man in green-and-white striped sleeveless shirt and white shorts reclining on a yellow sun lounger at the top of the pool |
| Woman | Blonde woman in blue bikini lying on a red sun lounger behind him, legs stretched out |
| Woman | Dark-haired woman in magenta bikini sitting poolside on the right, lower legs in the water, beside a metal pool ladder |
| Man | Man in red swim trunks swimming at the bottom right of the pool, arms outstretched |
Brightly painted 1960s-style cartoon backglass of a resort swimming-pool patio. The centre-right is dominated by a huge red cursive title reading Palisades, outlined in white with a black drop shadow, slanted diagonally upward, with a small green cursive manufacturer word printed directly above it. Two tall brown palm trunks on the left act as score panels, each carrying coloured numbers (100 to 400 on the left trunk, 500 to 900 on the right) with rows of small round yellow lamp dots beside them; MILLIONS is lettered in spaced red capitals at the top left among palm fronds. The scene below shows a kidney-shaped pool of blue water with white ripples, ringed by grey paving, holding a red, green, blue and white beach ball and a purple ball. Ten people in swimwear lounge and swim: blonde women in white, red, blue, magenta and green bikinis, bare-chested men, one man in a green-and-white striped sleeveless shirt, several reclining on red, yellow and teal sun loungers. Background: blue sky with puffy white clouds, green lawn, blue sea, distant mountains, pink flowering trees in yellow planters, and a yellow-roofed cabana on the right. Dominant colours: blue, green, red, yellow.