1957 · Williams
Reno
Flat lemon-yellow painted ground, scattered five-pointed stars in yellow, green, blue and pink with black outlines, a red circular emblem on a small stand at centre and a pale cream arrow/pointer shape with orange and green bands behind the woman.
- Year
- 1957
- 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
- yellow
- red
- blue
- green
Fingerprint: RENO in pale blue-green cracked-stone lettering, woman in sleeveless cobalt halter dress at bottom holding two giant playing cards spade and heart, fanned arcs of coloured scoring lanes rising both sides, three tilted CARD SELECTED bingo grids topped by balls lettered A B C, lemon-yellow ground.
The most memorable feature is the woman in the sleeveless cobalt-blue halter dress at bottom centre, holding out two giant playing cards - a black spade card and a red heart card - with a small '4' sign on a pole behind her shoulder. Second is the pair of huge fanned arcs of rainbow-coloured scoring lanes sweeping up both sides, each lane a solid block of red, magenta, blue, cyan, orange, purple or green with big white-outlined numerals running up it. Third, the enormous stone-textured RENO title in pale blue-green at top centre under a cursive script word. Fourth, the three tilted 'CARD SELECTED' bingo-style grids in red, purple and green, each crowned by a white ball carrying a letter.
Setting
- Flat lemon-yellow painted ground
- Scattered five-pointed stars in yellow, green, blue and pink with black outlines
- A red circular emblem on a small stand at centre
- A pale cream arrow/pointer shape with orange and green bands behind the woman
Symbols
- Three tilted bingo card grids numbered 1 to 12
- Three white billiard-style balls lettered a, b and c
- Playing-card spade and heart pips
- Scattered five-pointed stars
- Coloured scoring lane arcs
- Small red circular emblem
- Cream arrow with orange and green bands
Lettering
- Main title in very large cracked-marble slab block capitals, pale blue-green with black outline and dark drop shadow; above it a flowing cursive script word in white with dark outline. panel headers 'card selected' in compact red capitals on white rounded tabs. lane numerals in tall rounded sans-serif, white with black outline on solid colour blocks. 'millions' and 'thousands' in small black capitals on yellow tabs.
Themes
- Playing cards
- Bingo-style card selection
- Roulette / las vegas
- Western city name
- Score lanes
- Pin-up woman
Title on it
- Reno
Text on it
- Williams
- RENO
- CARD SELECTED
- A
- B
- C
- MILLIONS
- THOUSANDS
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 00
- 20
- 30
- 40
- 50
- 60
- 70
- 80
- 90
- 100
- 200
- 300
- 400
- 500
- 600
- 700
- 800
- 900
- J
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | One adult woman at bottom centre, waist-up to mid-thigh, light skin, short wavy dark-blue hair swept back, red lips, head tilted slightly left with a smile. she wears a sleeveless cobalt-blue halter dress with a plunging v neckline and a pleated skirt. her right hand holds a giant white playing card showing a black spade pip and letter j, and her left hand holds a second giant white card showing a large red heart pip and letter a. she stands in front of a cream arrow shape striped orange and green, and a small white square sign on a post behind her right shoulder reads 4. |
A hand-painted, cartoon-style backglass on a flat lemon-yellow ground, dominated by two large fanned arcs of coloured scoring lanes that rise from the bottom corners and curve inward, leaving a pale yellow channel up the centre. On the left the lanes run red, magenta, blue and cyan with big white numerals 1 to 9 reading bottom-to-top and a parallel column of 100 to 900; the right side mirrors this in orange, purple, blue, green and pink with 00 to 90 and 10 to 90, both columns headed MILLIONS and THOUSANDS in black on yellow tabs. Three tilted rectangular 'CARD SELECTED' number grids float over the top - a red one at upper left topped by a white ball lettered A, a purple one at upper right under a ball lettered C, and a green one at centre under a ball lettered B, each grid holding blank squares numbered 1 to 12. The title is a huge block RENO in pale blue-green cracked-stone lettering with a black outline and drop shadow, with a cursive script word above it. Below sits a small red circular emblem and a woman in a sleeveless blue halter dress holding two oversized playing cards.