PopKulture's photos with the keyword: Exhibit

Vintage arcade flyer for Electric Eye, a stylish mechanical shooting range by Exhibit Manufacturing Co. Gambling was every where in the 1930's, as manufacturers even adapted target ranges to be payout machines. While the advertised claim of "pistol taget pratice" implies a certain degree of skill, I've seldom encountered one of these old mechanical pistol ranges that shoots the ball consistently! That inconsistency - coupled with the "automatic changing odds" - make this more a pure gambling device than a skill machine.

Vintage pinball flyer for Gateway by Exhibit Manufacturing Co. 1930's. Like other early pinball manufacturers, Exhibit experimented with interchangeable playfields for operators to update the look and play of games on their routes without having to buy entirely new machines.

Vintage pinball flyer for Zoom by Stoner Mfg., 1935. By the mid-1930's, a handful of pinball bagatelle tables were sporting small headers at the top of the playfield that would soon evolve into the more familiar backboxes ubiquitous on pinballs from the 40's onward.

Vintage pinball flyer for Rapid Fire by Exhibit Manufacturing Co., 1930's. The earlier pinball machines of the 1930's evolved from parlor games and bagatelle tables and offered 5, 7, or even 10 balls for a penny. This first generation of pinball machines was for pure amusement only, but gambling quickly became the name of the game, and one-ball payout machines replaced their earlier counterparts by mid-decade.

Vintage pinball flyer for Bazaar by Exhibit Manufacturing Co., 1937. Note the emergence of what would soon become the familiar backbox of today.