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theme: IPDB Bowling IPDB Sports Flipcommons Catalog Sports used Flipcommons Catalog Bowling used

ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name: IPDB ESCO used
ipdb.corporate_entity_name: IPDB Exhibit Supply Company used
ipdb.image_urls: IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3246/image-1.jpg"] used
ipdb.notes: IPDB This game is Not A Pinball but may appear on some pinball machine lists. It was a game sold to operators to mount at one end of a non-coin, non-electric regulation 22-foot shuffleboard to convert it into a coin-operated puck bowler. The conversion consisted of a scoreboard, a gravity feed puck return chute, a cash box, and score sheets. A set-up of illuminated, non-moving plastic bowling pins would individually turn off when the puck closed electrical contacts as it passed under the pins. We previously showed a date for this game of 1948. Exhibit announced this game in The Billboard, Jan-21-1950, page 104 and indicated installation of the unit took approximately two hours. An article in The Billboard, Feb-18-1950, page 114 talked about how conversions such as this one helped to win back patrons of shuffleboard playing, indicating that Exhibit's 'Shuffle Bowl' was the first of these shuffleboard conversion games. used
ipdb.notable_features: IPDB 10 cents per player. used
corporate_entity: Flipcommons Catalog exhibit-supply-company used
title: Flipcommons Catalog shuffle-bowl used
name: Flipcommons Catalog Shuffle Bowl used
slug: Flipcommons Catalog shuffle-bowl used