- ipdb_id
- 5322
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5322/image-1.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- 2 balls for 5 cents. Playfield holes are labeled as cities located in the State of Texas. Battery-operated playfield lights. Game advertised as 42 inches long by 20 inches wide.
- ipdb.notes
- The flyer shown here is by a company known as Automatic Amusement Company of Memphis and Fort Worth. Very little information can be found for it and almost all of it from Dick Bueschel's Encyclopedia of Pinball Volumes 1 and 2 where he indicates their earliest games were conversions. They advertise that the games were shipped "F.O.B. Chicago". The term "Free On Board Chicago" does not specify if Chicago was the starting point or a destination point for these games. If it was a starting point, then Automatic Amusement Company was likely just a distributor for this game or perhaps was private label for an (unknown) manufacturer located in Chicago. If Chicago was a destination point to where shipping charges were paid by this company, then this suggests that they were aware of an intense competition for sales to the Chicago area.
We think they were a distributor or reseller in light of their advertising flyer for Bally's 1935 'Jumbo'. If true, it would follow that 'Lone Star' was made in the Chicago area.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- American Places
- year
- 1935