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: Canadian Coin Box 1972-09 1972-10 1985-08 1988-04

Over the years I've acquired a few Canadian Coin Box issues and we are still archiving them. Thank you to Detchibe for scanning these for me. 

Canadian Coin Box 1972-09

Canadian Coin Box 1972-10

Canadian Coin Box 1985-08

Canadian Coin Box 1988-04

Canadian Coin Box 1972-09

Canadian Coin Box 1972-10

 

Canadian Coin Box 1985-08

 

Canadian Coin Box 1988-04

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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: "A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads by Erin Reed 

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

scan: Coin Journal 1982-12

I am happy to announce that the first of the Coin Journals is now available online!

Thank you to Detchibe for scanning and thank you to Greg at the International Arcade Museum Library for working with us to help preserve these.

月刊コインジャーナル [Monthly Coin Journal] Vol. 7 No. 12 (December 1982) (600DPI)

This issue has a part 2 of a history of the amusement industry. That makes finding earlier issues an even more tantalizing prospect!

Some highlights:

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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: Heads of Major American Religious Traditions Issue Landmark Statement Supporting Trans, Intersex and Nonbinary People

Please read: Some Tennessee Libraries Shut Down For “Emergency Closure” Over Transgender Books by S. Baum

 

scans: The Billboard 1935-04-13 1936-10-31 1938-12-10 1938-12-17 1940-05-18 1942-11-07 1946-06-22

This is the last batch of The Billboard Magazines that I was gifted by Mike of Church of the Silver Ball fame back at Ontario Pinfest. Huge shout out to F-T-BScans who did a great salvage job and gave us all some amazing high resolution coin-op advertisements, despite the brittle and frayed and crumbling papers.  

These are quite damaged and have pages missing, so if a complete somewhere, someone please acquire it and scan it. If you have old Billboard Magazines sitting around, please get in touch. They might need to get archived? I suppose same goes for any other coin-op ephemera that is not yet properly preserved. We put in the work so that future generations won't.

The Billboard 1935-04-13

The Billboard 1936-10-31

The Billboard 1938-12-10

The Billboard 1938-12-17

The Billboard 1940-05-18

The Billboard 1942-11-07

The Billboard 1946-06-22

 

The Billboard 1935-04-13

The Billboard 1936-10-31

The Billboard 1938-12-10

The Billboard 1938-12-17

 

The Billboard 1940-05-18

 

The Billboard 1942-11-07

 

The Billboard 1946-06-22

Some highlights!!

 

 

 

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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: Supreme Court lets Trump block transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers by Lindsay Whitehurst

Please read: Washington State University Credentials Anti-Trans Hate Group SEGM to Teach Medical Providers by S. Baum 

Please read: The Dolls: ‘What we really crave is to work, love and exist with dignity’ by Shon Faye

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.