pictures from the Berkeley Library digital collections

I love libraries and archives!  There are so many wonderful ones out there and kudos for the Univ of California Berkeley Library Digital Collections for these images.  h/t to tweakbod on these.

These are ordered by date and the title given in the archive is listed as well.  18 of these 27 images are high resolution.

1922 Shooting Gallery on the North side of Market St. between Leavenworth & City Hall Ave. Dec. 1922

1922 Shooting Gallery, North side of Market between Leavenworth & City Hall Ave. Dec. 1922
this photo is special because you seldom get to see behind the counter

1932-02-23 Sergeant Theobald McCarthy, raid

1934-05-07 150 slot machines smashed and burned on city dumps

1934-05-07 150 slot machines smashed and burned on city dumps

1934-05-07 150 slot machines smashed and burned on city dumps

1934-05-07 150 slot machines smashed and burned on city dumps

1934-05-07 150 slot machines smashed and burned on city dumps

1934-05-07 150 slot machines smashed and burned on city dumps

1934-05-07 150 slot machines smashed and burned on city dumps
including this as an example of how the details on photos were tracked

1934-05-07 150 slot machines smashed and burned on city dumps

1935-12-17 School kids playing baffle board at Seventeenth and Sanchez

1935-12-17 School kids playing baffle board at Seventeenth and Sanchez

1935-12-17 School kids playing baffle board at Seventeenth and Sanchez

1935-12-17 School kids playing baffle board at Seventeenth and Sanchez

1936-02-07 Judge G.W. Schonfeld and slot machines
on the right: 1926 Play Ball by Exhibit Supply

1936-04-03 Helen Allen, pinball slot machine
Line-O-Lites does not appear on IPDB. I believe this is a modified Genco Criss Cross 'A' Lite. It could be concocted just for this photo, but I'm guessing that the Line-O-Lites backbox does not normally belong to that machine. 5x5 grids for Fascination / Pokerino games would involve a ball the player can roll by hand, and that's what I assume Line-O-Lites is typically from. When they would form a line the jackpot light on the top would light up.

1936-05-22 Hugo Radbruch with slot machines, Court House
1935 Gold Award by Rock-Ola spotted

 

1937-12-21 Slot machine raid, 118 First Street

1937-12-21 Slot machine raid, 118 First Street

1938-09-14 Lieutenant L. Tackney, slot machine raid, Northern Station
upright clawfoot slot on the left, probably circa 1900s. Many of the slot machines feature mint side-vendors

1938-09-14 Lieutenant L. Tackney, slot machine raid, Northern Station
at the front is a Pipe-Eye, The Darby, Steeplechase

1938-10-04 Girl arrested on slot machine charge

1938-10-04 Girl arrested on slot machine charge

1938-10-17 Gambling raid on pin-ball game

1938-10-17 Gambling raid on pin-ball game

1939-1940 Journalists [Giovanni Artieri and Lynn Louis Heinzerling, at slot machine]
this is a full-sized pajatso machine!  What on earth is it doing here?  I love it so much.

 

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Please read: Trans man kicked out of women’s bathroom at arcade: It was “dehumanizing” by Greg Owen

Please read: Michigan State Medical Society Greenlights Anti-Trans Hate Group Genspect to Teach Trans Medicine by S. Baum 

 

scans: flyers and magazines from Japan

A bit of a grab-bag of scans here.  Thank you to everyone who uploaded them or passed them to me for upload.

Thank you to a friend in Japan that provided me these two Universal slot machine scans.

Perfect Universal Slot Machines [ユニバーサルカタログ] (1982)

 example page:

and this pairs nicely with the 2-sided Jumbo Slot flyer.

Jumbo Slot - ジャンボスロット by ユニバーサル (Universal)

 

 

I thought I had shared this next scan, which I got courtesy Mike Minchew, but it seems I missed it.

This has the North America export flyer as well as the English, German, & Spanish export flyer.

export flyers for Arm Wrestling アーム・レスリング (1980) by 池本車体 (Ikemoto Shatai)

export flyers for Arm Wrestling アーム・レスリング (1980) by 池本車体 (Ikemoto Shatai)

 

Shout out to Internet Archive user データ三昧 who uploaded these next two flyers.  I had seen this Sega flyer for the Rock-Ola 443 Jukebox before and I was quite tempted by it.  I don't typically collect jukebox stuff but the graphic design is just so GOOD.

Rock-Ola 443 Jukebox (Japanese market Sega license) pamphlet

Rock-Ola 443 Jukebox (Japanese market Sega license) pamphlet

Then a 1990 Sega company profile. Notable for me is that it has a 2-page spread on their epic Super Circuit.

Sega Company Profile (1990)

Sega Company Profile (1990)

next up is an AOU newsletter, scanned by Detchibe.

AOU News [AOUニュース] Vol. 2 No. 2 Issue 6 (February 15, 1987) (600DPI)

And then 3 issues of the English language Japan Amusement Monthly, 2 scanned by Arcade Hacker and 1 by Detchibe.

 

Japan Amusement Monthly Vol. 2 No. 2 (October 1992)

Japan Amusement Monthly Vol. 2 No. 4 (December 1992) (600DPI)

 

Japan Amusement Monthly Vol. 3 No. 9 (May 1994)

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This blog stands in protest against the USA's horrific attempts to eliminate trans people from society. Trans people have always existed, in every society, but the administration has embraced a moral panic, declared a war against reality, and says that trans people can no longer be allowed to exist. This includes making their healthcare illegal, censoring books and school curriculum from university level down to elementary school, declaring trans life to be child abuse, and banning trans people from bathrooms.

This blog stands in solidarity with all of the youth who are being terrorized by a fascist president who has declared them to be threats that must be eliminated.

The USA is disappearing random brown people off the streets via unidentified masked men and shipping them off to concentration camps and notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own people.

Please read: Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally by Selena Simmons-Duffin

Please read: A family opened a town’s first bookstore. A bathroom bill is driving them away. 

Scan: The Billboard 1931-12-19

At Ontario Pinfest I was gifted a box of old billboard magazines, from Mike Hanley of Church of the silver ball. They were fairly brittle and quite large, making them a formidable challenge, but a preservationist friend was able to take on this challenge and here is the first issue of that batch. This one is in 300 dpi, but the future ones will apparently be 600 DPI. thank you to F-T-BScans for the scan.

The Billboard December 19th 1931

 

I requested the final few pages of the magazine get rescanned at 600 dpi, and those pages are here. Those are the few coin-op pages, but this section of the magazine will quickly grow in later issues.

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This blog stands in protest against the USA's horrific attempts to eliminate trans people from society. Trans people have always existed, in every society, but the administration has embraced a moral panic, declared a war against reality, and says that trans people can no longer be allowed to exist. This includes making their healthcare illegal, censoring books and school curriculum from university level down to elementary school, and stoking the constant terrorist bomb and death threats against trans lives and institutions that don't also purge trans people.

This blog stands in solidarity with all of the youth who are being terrorized by a fascist president who has declared them to be threats that must be eliminated.

The USA is disappearing random brown people off the streets via unidentified masked men and shipping them off to notorious foreign prisons, all with no due process. Solidarity for all who are in the gaze of this American Nazism terror campaign against its own citizens.

Please read: 'Open Cruelty': Transgender Troops Describe Indignities as They're Kicked Out of the Military by Konstantin Toropin

Please read: Spain’s first out trans senator declares ‘F*** Rowling’ as she uses women’s bathroom