- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- H. C. Evans & Company
- ipdb_id
- 1383
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1383/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1383/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1383/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1383/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1383/image-5.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Evans
- ipdb.notable_features
- 10 balls for 5 cents.
- ipdb.notes
- This is a non-payout model that advertised for $43.50 when new.
This game was exhibited at the Coin Machine Exposition in Chicago on February 18-21, 1935 (per The Billboard, Mar-2-1935 page 63). The manufacturer's ads of March and April (shown here) indicate that orders were being taken for future delivery. Only at the end of April does an ad announce that this game was actually in production.
We have seen no photographs of the game shown in the ads and we wonder if it was actually made. A Billboard ad dated May 1935 announced that production for 'Kings of the Turf' was starting that month, and all games that followed that announcement had a different playfield and cabinet. From this, we believe there are two models of this game, with the change occurring in May, and perhaps this "first model" never got off the ground. From examining the ads, we list here its most dependable characteristics that will distinguish it from the second model:
The game name at top of playfield is not displayed on a ribbon banner.
Below the name, the horses race to the left.
The playfield is a single background color.
The center of race track in lower playfield does not have numbers in it.
The coin slide has an oblong multiple-coin view window.
The second model is Evans' 1935 'Kings of the Turf (Second Model)'.
- month
- 2
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Horse Racing
- year
- 1935