1968 · Maresa
Tiro's
Carnival or funfair shooting gallery interior, dark night sky with a striped tent roof and rigging at top, pink-and-white vertically striped wall panel behind the target and pale blue-green wash behind the crowd.
- Year
- 1968
- Maker
- Maresa
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 1
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- cream
- red
- teal
- grey
Fingerprint: Huge round grey dartboard-style target with concentric pink and red rings, surrounded by crowd of small grey elephants standing nose-to-nose around its rim, blonde woman in red-white striped playsuit leaning rightward over counter arm extended, brunette in red cap and red top throwing dart with arm fully extended, TIRO'S in tall cream capitals with heavy pink-red three-dimensional shadow
A huge round grey dartboard-style target with concentric pink and red rings, ringed by a crowd of small grey elephants standing nose-to-nose around its rim. A blonde woman in a red-and-white striped playsuit leans rightwards over a counter, arm extended, while a brunette in a red cap and red top throws a dart upward with arm fully extended. The title TIRO'S is rendered in tall cream capitals with a heavy pink-and-red three-dimensional shadow against a dark green-black sky. A crowd of elephants plus a bullseye target inside a circus-tent interior makes the theme read as a travelling fair shooting gallery.
Setting
- Carnival or funfair shooting gallery interior
- Dark night sky with a striped tent roof and rigging at top
- Pink-and-white vertically striped wall panel behind the target
- Pale blue-green wash behind the crowd
Symbols
- Concentric-ring bullseye target
- Grey elephants
- Throwing dart
- Playing card held by the striped woman
- Cocktail and drinking glasses
- Coloured round balls or balloons at far left
- Small marquee lights on the distant building
- Red and navy triangular arrow wedges at the bottom corners
- Spotlight rigging at top
Lettering
- Tall condensed sans-serif capitals, cream fill, thick pink-to-dark-red offset 3d shadow on a dark ground; small white sans-serif capitals inside a black-bordered rectangle for the logo
Themes
- Carnival
- Funfair
- Shooting gallery
- Elephants
- Dart
- Cocktail drinks
- Counter or bar scene
Title on it
- Tiro's
Text on it
- MARCSA
- TIRO'S
- 0
- 4
- 9
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Short fair-haired man in a rust-red long-sleeve shirt standing behind the counter at left, looking right |
| Woman | Tall blonde woman in a red-and-white vertically striped playsuit with short shorts and white shoes, leaning forward to the right with left arm stretched out toward the target, long hair falling over her shoulder |
| Man | Older balding man in a mustard-yellow shirt with a dark bow tie, arms folded, standing behind the counter |
| Woman | Brown-haired woman in a red top and dark cap at centre, right arm raised high holding a small dart, mouth open |
| Woman | Blonde woman in a red cap and red top beside her, facing right |
| Woman | Red-haired woman in a teal-green dress at right holding a small tray or glass |
| Man | Man in a pink shirt and yellow tie at far right raising a glass to his mouth |
| Man | Man in a yellow shirt at bottom-left corner, grinning and holding a glass |
| Animal | About eight small grey elephants, trunks down, arranged in a ring around the round target board; one low centre-left and one upper-right separated from the main group |
| Other | Two small blue-toned figures in the deep background centre, plus a distant pink and white circus facade with tiny figures behind a railing |
Photographed head-on as a rectangular backglass panel with rounded corners, showing chipped and flaking white speckled paint on the outer cabinet surround and a narrow cream border inside. The painted artwork is a flat, brightly coloured comic-book cartoon in heavy black outlines. Across the top right sits the title in tall cream block capitals with a thick pink-and-dark-red 3D drop shadow, spelling TIRO'S on a dark green-black background broken by red-and-yellow rays. Top left holds a small black rectangle logo box, above a cream rounded rectangle containing four mechanical score windows. The scene is a crowded carnival sideshow: about nine cartoon people in mid-century dress - striped playsuits, bow ties, teal dresses, flat caps, cocktail glasses - crowd around a counter and dance floor at lower left and centre, while the right half is dominated by a large round grey target board ringed with concentric pink and red circles, surrounded by about eight grey elephants pressed nose-on to its edge. Dominant colours are cream, red, teal green and grey.