Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (6 fields)
- credit
- Arthur L. Paulin — Design IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 12 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1930 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 5397 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (5 fields)
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5397/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5397/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5397/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5397/image-4.jpg"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB Pictured here is the actual game created December 1930 by a 35-year-old carpenter named Arthur L. Paulin for his young daughter, Lois, after encountering an old bagatelle while cleaning out his barn. According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 1, because Lois and her friends enjoyed it so much, he later took it to the local drugstore, run by a druggist named Myrl A. Park, where a customer and salesman Earl W. Froom dropped in to buy cigars. Froom was very interested in it and, after Park suggested adding a coin device to it, offered to check into it further. From this, a three-way partnership was born which in January 1931 led to the addition of a fourth partner, bookkeeper William B. Howell, as together they created Yohio Manufacturing Company and set out to manufacture coin-op versions of this game. For the next part of this story, see Yohio Mfg.'s 1931 'Old Jenny (Whiffle)'. The Encyclopedia of Pinball Volumes 1 and 2 both state that the Whiffle playfield layout was copied from the British Corinthian bagatelle games (an example would be Witzig's '"Corinthian" 15'). This could suggest that the game Paulin found in his barn was a Corinthian. used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog whiffle-game used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Whiffle Game used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog whiffle-game used