Why was Pinball Banned in New York?
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Credits:
Produced by
Kevin Erhard
Music provided by
Epidemic Sound
Interview Camera Operator
Angelo Barioli
Special Thanks
Prof. Joe Greaney
Sources
“Escapes Jail by Proving Bagatelle Game of Skill”
New York Daily News, February 4, 1933
“Dyker Association Elects Ryan Chief for Another Term”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 8, 1936
“Bagatelle Owners Weight Fight Against City Ban”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 11, 1936
“Pin-Ball Games Cost Borough $20,000,000”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 15, 1936
“Contraband to get Sea Burial by Police off Execution Light”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 3, 1936
“Brooklyn Cops Nab Heads of Pinball Games”
New York Daily News, December 8, 1936
“Mayor To Ask Pinball Games to be Banned Here”
Brooklyn Citizen, December 29, 1941
“Police Open Raids on Pinball Games”
New York Times, January 22, 1942
Photo of Pinball Raid
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 23, 1942
“Pinball War Hits 647 Here”
Brooklyn Citizen, January 22, 1942
“Retired Cops Hit Pinball Jackpot”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 27, 1942
“Pinball War Nets 3,200 Machines”
New York Daily News, February 5, 1942
“Bids Finest Fight On”
New York Daily News, February 7, 1942
“Joins the Jobless”
New York Daily News, February 13, 1942
“Reformed Out of Business”
New York Daily News, April 14, 1942
“Pinball Raids Pay Sizable Dividends”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 17, 1942
“City Seeks to License Pinballs, Driven to Cover Under the Hat”
New York Daily News, December 17, 1942
“Pinball Bounces Back on Shove From Council”
New York Daily News, May 14, 1976
Photos and Footage
Pinball Machines filmed at the Silverball Museum, Delray Beach, Florida
Photos of Fiorello LaGuardia from the Library of Congress
Newsreel footage from the Prelinger Archives