Subway / Cross Town

Full-length electro-mechanical playfield with a pale blue-grey lower field, a green and cream mid-band and a peach-and-cream arched upper playfield. Across the top, under a chrome ball-trough arch, a small banner reads LIGHTS BUMPERS. Below it sits a row of four illuminated rollover lanes with round lenses and numbered discs 1 2 3 4. Four large pop bumper caps in yellow, red, white and blue, each ringed with red-and-white sunburst stripes, read BONUS 10 POINTS. A green vertical housing and a wireform ramp run down the centre. A large mirror ball graphic is overprinted with oversized yellow script reading 10,000 AND SKILL and SPECIAL, with three stacked magenta ovals reading SPECIAL, 300 and 200. Midway a translucent blue plastic band carries painted comic figures and a grey skyline. Lower play is blue with a cream downward arrow insert, paired value insets, comic vignettes of a woman in a red top and men in hats and shirts, and two triangular wireform ramps. A cream apron carries a rules text block, a BALLS PLAYED window and large red FLIPPER BUTTONS lettering.

Full view of a vintage electro-mechanical playfield under glass, seen from above in its wooden cabinet with the metal lockdown bar across the front. The art is a bright yellow, red, blue and cream circus-carnival scene. Four pop bumpers sit in a diamond across the upper half, each with a red-and-white starburst cap carrying a white disc printed 10. A tall red vertical post rises from the middle of the playfield, carrying a column of coloured oval spot targets (red, green, yellow) and lettering reading BIG 4. Around it stand painted circus characters: a clown in a yellow-and-orange striped top with green trousers, a figure in a red coat, a man in a blue jacket, and small animals. Lower down, a grey circular stage sits above a blue arrow reading 50 POINTS, flanked by two white ovals reading FLIPPER. The apron carries large blue BUTTONS lettering, a red-and-white striped retro END GAME plate, a printed SUBWAY instruction card, and a chrome PUSH LOWER PLUNGER FOR BALL plate.

A 1950s-style American cartoon backglass framed by a cream cabinet bezel with red-and-navy diagonal barber-pole stripes along the top and bottom edges and pink-magenta arrow accents at the upper corners. Across the top, yellow cursive script reads Gottlieb's, followed by huge yellow block capitals with a navy drop shadow reading CROSS on the upper line and TOWN below. At upper left sits an orange-framed illuminated score window showing ,444 in black numerals on cream reels. Behind the title is a painted city street with flat-roofed shopfronts, a barber pole, a mailbox and a traffic signal. A long dark-green bus or delivery van spans the middle, lettered MFD. BY D. GOTTLIEB & CO. and ...CHICAGO, ILL. 60651, with a white-and-yellow oval badge reading A FLIPPER SKILL GAME. Below the van, a station-wagon body carries a row of small narrative window panels, a round red A NORTH & SOUTH sign and a red shield reading 1ST STREET 2ND AVENUE. Five cartoon figures populate the lower half: a blond man at a peanut machine, a striped-suit man carrying an umbrella and a black hat, and a couple - a man in a white fedora and orange plaid jacket, a blonde woman holding a striped purse - plus a red-haired woman in a red top pointing right. Flat mid-century comic line art with heavy black outlines.

A wide, square-ish backglass illustration dominated by a yellow-green subway car interior seen side-on. Across the top, 'Gottlieb's' appears in slanted yellow cursive and 'SUBWAY' in huge block capitals filled red-to-orange with a pale yellow outline, flanked by a green signal lamp and a row of green roof vents. Below, four white score windows read 2, 6, 5, 2. A lit red box at upper right reads 'SERVICES IN SCORE'. The mid-band shows the car wall with framed posters of couples, a row of backlit advertising panels showing faces, a bank of dark green doors, and two small red route plates. Foreground passengers fill the lower half: a red-blonde woman in profile with a white fur collar clapping her hands at lower left; a man in a blue-and-white striped suit and blue cap leaning on the handrail; a man in a brown felt hat and orange-brown striped coat; and a brunette woman in a patterned pink-and-white blouse with a blue jacket over her shoulder, beside a uniformed conductor in a red cap and red jacket gesturing down the platform. Ten red circles numbered 1 to 10 line the bottom above a 'BALLS TO PLAY' label. The outer border is cream with red corner sweeps and a red-and-blue striped skirt.

A portrait-format painted electro-mechanical backglass dominated by a cream rounded-rectangle border with chipped paint. The top right carries the huge title SUBWAY in red block capitals with white and blue outline on a deep blue sky of white radiating speed lines; beneath it, small white capitals read BIGLIARDINO ELETTRICO GOTTLIEB. Top left is a large white oval window outlined in red and cream, hung from a yellow-and-black striped cord with a yellow ball, containing four white reel number windows showing dark digits. Mid-left a cream banner reads SENZA RIPETIZIONE, followed by a cream maker cartouche reading MFD.BY over a black script signature D.Gottlieb & Co. with U.S.A. below, then DELLA PARTITA in black capitals on a white arrow-ended bar. A red-bordered box right of centre reads PUNTEGGIO MASSIMO RAGGIUNTO above a blank white card window. The middle third shows a green subway train carriage with windows full of seated passengers and a closed green double door, and above it a yellow-green panel containing a row of standing commuters. Four large foreground figures fill the lower half: a blonde woman conductor in a red jacket and red cap with a white band pointing down-left; a smiling man in blue striped overalls and a blue cap waving beside a green machine labelled GRATIS; a man in a brown suit and orange-brown fedora; and a blonde woman in a cream patterned coat holding a blue folder, plus a laughing red-haired man in a red checked shirt at bottom left. The bottom band is red and yellow with blue-outlined numerals 1 2 3 4 5 separated by dots, and BALLS TO PLAY at the right.

A backlit backglass of a mid-1960s four-player coin-operated machine, printed in flat saturated cartoon colours on a white rectangular panel with a white border. The upper third is a dark blue night-sky band carrying the title at top: 'Gottlieb's' in slanted yellow script on a magenta ribbon, and 'SUBWAY' in huge block capitals, red with yellow inline and a dark outline. Below and left of the title sit four white mechanical score reels in a chrome-edged window showing digits. A horizontal cream instruction strip across the middle reads manufacturer text on the left, a small yellow Gottlieb logo-and-name plaque in the centre and city/state text on the right, with a green-tinted double door (two dark green hinged leaves) directly beneath it. A red-bordered 'PREVIOUS HIGH SCORE' panel with three lines of numerals sits at mid-right. A row of small framed cartoon vignettes (faces and scenes) runs across the centre band. The lower half shows a subway-car interior: a green-and-blue bench along the left, a green handrail, and four cartoon passengers in 1960s dress - a red-haired man in a light shirt facing right in profile at far left, a slim man in a blue pinstriped suit and blue fedora standing centre, and a man and a woman in a red hat and blue outfit at the right edge. Along the bottom a strip of red circles numbered 1 to 10 with 'CREDITS PLAY' at the right.