1964 · Chicago Coin
South Pacific
Bright blue sky with flat white cloud shapes, turquoise sea with white surf line and horizontal white streaks, green and tan grassy/sandy shoreline across the bottom, palm tree trunk at the far left edge, small motor launch on the water left of centre and red-sailed outrigger canoe at the right.
- Year
- 1964
- Maker
- Chicago Coin
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 2
Made by
- Design
- Al Schlappa
- Design
- Jerry Koci
- Design
- John Gore
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- red
- yellow
- white
Fingerprint: South Pacific: central hula dancer in bright red feather skirt and flowered bikini top holding red and yellow feather fans, four beach girls in bikinis including seated brunette playing ukulele and blonde beside red-and-white surfboard, two symmetrical player score windows at top with red player numerals.
The centre hula dancer in a bright red feather skirt and flowered bikini top, one arm raised holding a red feather fan and the other holding a yellow one, planted mid-stage in front of the ocean. Flanking her are four beach girls in bikinis: a seated brunette playing a ukulele at the left, a brunette kneeling beside an upright red-and-white surfboard, and a blonde cropped by the right edge. The top third is a symmetrical pair of player score windows with red '1' and '2' numerals above them and '1 or 2 CAN PLAY' on a pink ribbon between.
Setting
- Bright blue sky with flat white cloud shapes
- Turquoise sea with white surf line and horizontal white streaks
- Green and tan grassy/sandy shoreline across the bottom
- Palm tree trunk at the far left edge
- Small motor launch on the water left of centre
- Red-sailed outrigger canoe at the right
Symbols
- Eight-pointed star rosette behind the title
- Pink ribbon banner with hula-dancer head and hibiscus flower
- Tiki mask faces flanking the red player numerals
- Scroll-and-ring ornamental frames around both score windows
- Tropical hibiscus flowers
- Feather fans
- Surfboard
- Motor launch and outrigger canoe
- Cloud-shaped script cartouche
Lettering
- Large arched sans-serif capitals with red-to-orange gradient, white bevel and black drop shadow for the title; black brush script in a white cloud cartouche for the company name; white slanted capitals on red-and-yellow curved banners for the player labels; white mixed-case lettering on a flat pink ribbon for the play-mode note
Themes
- Tropical beach
- Hula
- South pacific island
- Pin-up women
- Surfing
- Ukulele
Title on it
- South pacific
Text on it
- Chicago Coin's
- SOUTH PACIFIC
- 1 or 2
- CAN PLAY
- 1st PLAYER
- 2nd PLAYER
- BALL in PLAY
- 1
- 4
- 3
- 5
- 0
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Seated at far left on a white towel, long black hair with a red flower behind the ear, red-and-yellow floral two-piece bikini, white flower lei, holding a small yellow ukulele across her lap, smiling to the right |
| Woman | Centre stage hula dancer, tan skin, short black bob, yellow feather headdress, yellow-and-red flower lei, flowered bikini top, red feather skirt, white belt; right arm raised holding a red feather fan, left hand holding a yellow feather fan, smiling |
| Woman | Kneeling at right of centre, long dark hair, pink two-piece bikini with fringed hip scarf, one hand on the sand, beside a tall red-and-white surfboard planted point-up |
| Woman | Far right edge, blonde curly hair with a red flower, blue-and-white floral bikini, pink lei, head in profile facing left, partially cropped by the frame |
| Man | In the water behind the centre dancer, shirtless, dark hair, green-trimmed patterned trunks, leaning forward with arms out as if surfing or wading |
| Child | Small figure on the sand to the right of the man, bare-chested with white shorts, standing in profile |
| Animal | Black dog standing on the sand at right, head lowered toward the outrigger canoe |
| Vehicle | White and red motor launch with two figures aboard, on the water left of centre; a red-and-white outrigger canoe with a red triangular sail at the right |
A wide, landscape-format backglass with a bright sky-blue sky over a tropical beach, painted in a mid-century American pin-up airbrush style. Across the top, the title 'SOUTH PACIFIC' is set in large arched capital letters with a red-to-orange gradient fill, white face highlight and heavy black drop shadow; at upper left a white cloud-shaped cartouche carries the black script text 'Chicago Coin's'. Below the title, two score windows are mounted left and right, each headed by a large red numeral ('1' and '2') sitting on scrollwork with tiki-mask faces flanking it. Each window holds four rectangular digit cards on coloured backgrounds, and beneath each is a curved red-and-yellow banner reading '1st PLAYER' and '2nd PLAYER'. Between them sits a pink ribbon emblem with a hula-dancer head, a tropical flower and the wording '1 or 2 CAN PLAY'. Four women dominate the lower two-thirds: at far left a seated brunette in a red-and-yellow floral bikini playing a small ukulele; centre a hula dancer in a red feather skirt and flowered bra holding a yellow feather fan in one hand and a red feather fan aloft in the other; at right a kneeling brunette in a pink bikini beside an upright red-and-white surfboard; at the far right edge a blonde in a blue-and-white floral bikini. Background figures include a shirtless man in green-trimmed trunks, a small child on the sand, a dark dog, a motor launch and a red-sailed outrigger canoe. A red arrow ribbon at bottom centre reads 'BALL in PLAY'.