WW2 Pinball Stories

Billboard provided a wealth of stories about the coin-op industry in each issue. I have pretended I am a Reader's Digest editor and carefully read through a pile of WW2 issues, extracting out pinball-related stories and tidbits and organizing them.

So what you'll see here are excerpts of these stories and pieces, that will hopefully give you some insights into the industry people and manufacturers, players and operators. I've also included some general WW2 items not strictly related to pinball, as they provide a feel for some of the conditions facing industry in America in general.

Note: For stories which have been edited from the original text, the snipped out parts are denoted by [...] .

Stories By Category

The story categories can be read individually or sequentially in the following order:

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