1958 · Gottlieb
Sittin' Pretty
Pale blue open sky, large red-and-white ferris wheel with lattice spokes, pale blue water or ground strip along the bottom, red-and-yellow striped tent and fairground structures at lower left and grey-blue city skyline silhouette at left edge.
- Year
- 1958
- 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
- blue
- red
- white
- yellow
Fingerprint: SITTIN PRETTY in orange-yellow candy-stripe letters, pin-up on red platform with giant lollipop, Ferris wheel sweeping diagonally, balloons and number discs, three swimsuit women.
The most memorable element is a blonde pin-up woman sitting on a red structure at upper left with one bare leg kicked up, holding a large swirled lollipop, surrounded by floating balloons and coloured number discs 1-7. Overlapping her is a vast red-and-white Ferris wheel that sweeps diagonally across a pale blue sky. The title SITTIN PRETTY is set in orange-and-yellow candy-striped block capitals slanting upward, above two ascending ramps of white numerals ending in THOUSANDS 100-900. Six tall white posts printed with red digits 1-7 stand in a row like bowling pins or organ pipes, each with a yellow lane top behind it.
Setting
- Pale blue open sky
- Large red-and-white ferris wheel with lattice spokes
- Pale blue water or ground strip along the bottom
- Red-and-yellow striped tent and fairground structures at lower left
- Grey-blue city skyline silhouette at left edge
Symbols
- Ferris wheel
- Balloons
- Lollipop
- Coloured number discs 1-7
- Row of white cylindrical posts digitised 1-7
- Five yellow lane tops
- Playfield-like ramp diagrams with scoring numerals
- Boxed rating words genius to fair
- Fairground tent with striped canopy
Lettering
- Large orange-and-yellow candy-striped block capitals with black outline and red drop shadow, slanted upward; white curved sans-serif 'millions' over coloured discs; white sans-serif numerals on red ramp panels; black sans-serif capitals inside white bordered rectangles
Themes
- Carnival
- Fairground
- Ferris wheel
- Pin-up
- Amusement park
- Number-scoring
- Numbers game
Title on it
- Sittin pretty
Text on it
- SITTIN
- PRETTY
- D. Gottlieb & Co.
- MILLIONS
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- THOUSANDS
- 100
- 200
- 300
- 400
- 500
- 600
- 700
- 800
- 900
- 10
- 20
- 30
- 40
- 50
- 60
- 70
- 80
- 90
- GENIUS
- SUPER
- EXCELLENT
- GOOD
- FAIR
- Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Blonde pin-up with hair in an updo, red halter top, seated sideways on a red platform at upper left, left arm raised holding a large swirled lollipop, one bare leg kicked up and bent, smiling |
| Creature | Small clown head with white face, red nose, yellow ruff and red cap peeking up between the wheel structure and the thousands ramp at centre-left |
| Woman | At bottom centre, dark-haired, in a red two-piece swimsuit with a red top, seated with legs to the left |
| Woman | At bottom centre-right, blonde bob, in a blue two-piece swimsuit, seated facing left |
| Woman | At bottom right, blonde, in a yellow bikini, seated leaning back with knees raised |
| Woman | Partial figure at the far bottom right edge in a striped swimsuit, mostly cropped |
A portrait-format backglass, photographed behind glass in a light wood frame with a visible silver inner border. A pale blue sky fills the background, with a red-and-white Ferris wheel structure sweeping diagonally across the middle. Dominant lettering: SITTIN PRETTY in huge orange-and-yellow striped block capitals with a heavy black outline and red shadow, set on two lines at upper centre-right, slanting upward to the right. Below it two red ramps carry white numerals: a THOUSANDS row of 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900, and a second ascending row 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90. Below these sit five yellow lane-topped lanes and a row of six tall white cylindrical posts, each printed with a red digit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and a small circular icon near the base. At upper left a cluster of coloured balloons (yellow, orange, red, purple, green) surrounds curved white lettering reading MILLIONS, with the digits 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 each in its own coloured disc, and a separate magenta disc reading 1. A pin-up woman with blonde upswept hair sits on the left in a red top holding a lollipop, one leg raised. Bottom left a vertical stack of boxed words: GENIUS, SUPER, EXCELLENT, GOOD, FAIR in black on white panels. Three more women in mid-century swimsuits sit along the bottom edge. A small clown head peeks out near the centre-left.