1953 · Gottlieb
Poker Face
Mottled turquoise sky wash, pale green leafy foliage behind the figures, sandy tan ground strip across the bottom, white heart panel in the upper right and black inner border and pale gold outer frame.
- Year
- 1953
- 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
- turquoise
- green
- white
- red
Fingerprint: Smiling woman in feathered fringed headdress centered inside enormous white heart, arched red POKER FAIRE title spanning upper right, four oversized anthropomorphized card suits as figures labeled SPADE HEART DIAMOND CLUB, tilted colored score panels running down left edge, vertical POINTS column beneath, row of cheering cartoon men and boys in bright primary-colored shirts along sandy lower border
The single most memorable feature is the huge white heart in the upper right with the arched red title arched across it, paired with the four oversized cartoon playing-card suits across the middle, each one drawn as a figure and stencilled with its own name. A second strong memory is the woman in a feathered Native-style headdress smiling out from inside the heart, arms spread. Third, the tall ladder of tilted, colour-coded score panels running down the entire left side, topped by a vertical POINTS column. Fourth, the small comic-strip row of cheering men and boys in bright primary-colour shirts along the sandy bottom edge.
Setting
- Mottled turquoise sky wash
- Pale green leafy foliage behind the figures
- Sandy tan ground strip across the bottom
- White heart panel in the upper right
- Black inner border and pale gold outer frame
Symbols
- Spade suit
- Heart suit
- Diamond suit
- Club suit
- Playing cards
- Red heart
- Feathered headdress
- Colour-coded score panels
Lettering
- Arched chunky red block capitals with a dark drop outline for the title; smaller condensed sans-serif capitals in white on coloured suit shapes; black numerals on tilted rounded pastel panels
Themes
- Playing cards
- Poker
- Card suits
- Score values
- Cartoon characters
- Foliage
Title on it
- Poker faire
Text on it
- POKER FAIRE
- POINTS
- SPADE
- HEART
- DIAMOND
- CLUB
- 100 000
- 200 000
- 300 000
- 400 000
- 500 000
- 600 000
- 800 000
- 900 000
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Smiling brunette woman in a feathered, fringed headdress and a skimpy costume, arms spread wide, positioned inside the large white heart, upper right centre |
| Other | Large black spade drawn as a cartoon character with eyes, mid-left of centre, labelled spade |
| Other | Large red heart suit with a cartoon face, labelled heart, centre |
| Other | Large magenta diamond suit with a cartoon face, labelled diamond, centre right |
| Other | Large blue club suit with a cartoon face, labelled club, right |
| Man | Cartoon man in a red shirt with one arm raised, left of centre |
| Man | Cartoon man in a yellow shirt and dark trousers, centre-left |
| Man | Cartoon man in a blue shirt, centre |
| Man | Cartoon man in a red shirt waving, centre-right |
| Child | Smaller boy figure in a green shirt crouching on the sand, bottom centre-left |
A tall portrait backglass in a pale gold frame with a thin black inner border. Flat, brightly coloured 1970s cartoon clip-art on a mottled turquoise and pale green background with leafy foliage. A large white heart in the upper right carries the title in arched chunky red block capitals with a dark outline: POKER FAIRE. Below it a smiling woman in a fringed feathered headdress stands with arms spread, the heart behind her head. Down the left edge runs a ladder of tilted rounded value panels in orange, yellow, teal, magenta, olive and red, each printed with a score figure, and beneath them a vertical column headed POINTS with blank rounded slots. Across the middle sit four oversized cartoon card suits drawn as characters - a black spade, a red heart labelled HEART, a magenta diamond labelled DIAMOND, a blue club labelled CLUB - with SPADE on the spade. Row of small cartoon men and boys in red, yellow, blue and green shirts cheer and wave on a sandy ground strip. Card suits and a red heart recur as icons.