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Williams · 1949

Boston

Notable Features

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Passive bumpers (2), Kick-out holes (3). The two diagonal channels light for Special on 1st ball only. Making numbers 1 to 6 lights lower kick-out hole for Super Special to award 5 replays but only if no replay had already been earned during play. "Handicap Equalizer" lights the other playfield Specials variously on successive games that are played without winning a replay (see Operator Instructions in Files section for details). Sound: 2 bells.

1949
Year
Produced
1
Players
Specifications
Manufacturer
Williams
Year Released
1949
Type
EM
Display
lights
Model #
29
Players
1
Credits
Design
Harry Williams
Art
George Molentin

Historical Notes

The backglass shows a man on horseback on a moonlit night in colonial Boston apparently signaling a conveniently awake and fully dressed citizenry of something behind him. The scene likely is intended to portray Paul Revere's historic midnight ride to Lexington on April 18, 1775 to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were on the march to arrest them. In the background, a light shines from the bell tower of Boston's Christ Church. However, Revere didn't start his journey on horseback until after he had left Boston, having been first rowed across the Charles River to Charlestown by associates, and there he borrowed a horse to start his ride. Fellow patriot William Dawes was also dispatched from Boston to Lexington for the same reason as was Revere, but Dawes was the one who took the land route through Boston. Therefore, history would have the man on horseback in Boston be William Dawes.

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