So I was just given a VERY old skee ball machine. Can't find ANYTHING about it on the internet. The name on the back glass is Victory Roll. I find a few adds in Billboard magazine from 1945-48. But, this one is electrical, and I think they didn't start with electro mechanical till 1950, or so.
I found, laying there on the other side of the dark dank basement, two, count em TWO wooden balls. The backglass is a TOTAL write off. I think there's enough there that I can have it reproduced...but I'm scared of the cost (it is though smaller than a pinball backglass). It is an electro-mechanical machine. Lights, contacts, lots of the same stuff as in a pinball machine. It's probably only 6' - 6-1/2' long...but weighs a ton. It's got some rubberized mat on the "field", fairly trashed of course, the netting has mostly rotted away, but the wooden aspect seems to be quite sound and all the electrical mechanicals turn or move freely, as they should. Lots of rat dropping, but nothing looks chewed on or through.
Anyone know ANYTHING or have ANY info on this thing?
I can get better pics tomorrow after I pick it up