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description: Flipcommons AI Descriptions (Manufacturer) Glickman was a Philadelphia firm that built its entire pinball business around one idea: converting other manufacturers' games into something new. The company's earliest known titles, *[[title:id:4000]]* (1937) and *[[title:id:5681]]* (1938), were reworked [[manufacturer:id:86]] machines — new backglasses, fresh paint, reconfigured playfields sold under a different name. When major manufacturers halted pinball production during World War II, Glickman filled the vacuum. Between 1942 and 1944 the company produced twenty titles — including *[[title:id:4180]]* (1942), *[[title:id:1821]]* (1942), *[[title:id:1231]]* (1942), *[[title:id:4414]]* (1942), and *[[title:id:248]]* (1944) — all built by fitting older machines from [[manufacturer:id:86]], [[manufacturer:id:262]], [[manufacturer:id:149]], and [[manufacturer:id:277]] with new backglasses, [[gameplay-feature:id:42]], and repainted cabinets. Glickman eventually sold the conversion kits alone, letting operators refresh their own floors without buying a complete machine. It was a niche business, but one perfectly suited to wartime scarcity — and Glickman's prolific wartime output makes it one of the best-documented examples of how the amusement industry adapted when new parts and materials were impossible to get. used
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