I was able to purchase this wire-service press photo from coinop historian Larry Bieza.
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| 1948-12-06 photograph by Richard C. Ferguson - Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo |
Download high-res TIF scans of these photos at Archive.org |
| 1948 pachinko photograph - backside |
This photo was printed in numerous papers, with slight variations in the article.
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| 1948-12-15 Chillicothe Gazette, Ohio, USA |
This photo is from the same series of photographs: A child is receiving their prize. Thank you Harold for the scan.
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| 1948-12-06 photograph by Richard C. Ferguson - Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo |
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| back of photograph |
The machines shown are of the bara-kugi style, with mostly-uniform grids of nails, but otherwise were quite similar to the single-shot pachinko machines common in the 1950s and 1960s.
Sugiyama-san says the nameplate here read 鈴富商店 (Suzutomi Shoten).
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| 鈴富商店 (Suzutomi Shoten) |
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