Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (1 field)
- theme
- IPDB Horse Racing IPDB Sports Flipcommons Catalog Sports used Flipcommons Catalog Horse Racing used
Sources agree (5 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 5 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1943 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 7 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 2729 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (8 fields)
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Westerhaus Amusement Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/2729/Backbox.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2729/Cabinet_View.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2729/Front_Detail_View.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2729/Left_Detail_View.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2729/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2729/image-1.jpg"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB World War II conversion of Stoner's 1936 'Turf Champs'. First game from this manufacturer. Joseph George Westerhaus and his wife Frances operated a coin-operated machine business that he had started in 1909. After his death in 1934, Frances carried on the business by herself as a sole proprietor, operating it until 1941 from the basement of her home at 3616 Darwin Avenue in Cheviot, Ohio. In 1935, her son, Joseph G. Westerhaus II (1911-1989), quit his job with a bakery company and began working full time for his mother in the business. In 1941, she moved her operations, likely to a new building less than half a mile away, at 3726 Kessen Avenue, built that year. In 1942, Frances and Joe II formed a partnership, calling it Westerhaus Amusement Company, and they began making pinball conversion games at the Kessen address. Westerhaus Amusement split off the pinball manufacturing portion in 1945 into a new company, Westerhaus Manufacturing Company, and the Amusement Company then functioned only as an operator, and finally incorporated on November 1, 1946. After the war, Frances and Joe II formed Royal Distributing Company as a jobbing and distributing outlet for the Cincinnati Ohio area. Frances died in 1953. The eventual President of Royal Distributing Company was Joseph G. Westerhaus III (1938-2008) but everyone called him Joe Jr. Westerhaus Amusement became Pioneer Vending, still at 3726 Kessen, and today is owned by Bill Westerhaus, half-brother of Joe Jr. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Five balls are shot simultaneously so as to simulate a horse race. Up to 7 selections can be made prior to shooting the balls into play. Each selection cost 5 cents, therefore one play could cost up to 35 cents, shared by any number of players up to seven. The instruction card states "Buy War Bonds And Stamps". used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog westerhaus-amusement-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog victorious-1943 used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Victorious 1943 used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog victorious-1943 used