Vintage 50's Era American Shuffleboard Scoring System

This is a demonstration of how arcade games were controlled in the 1950's and 60's. My wife has wanted an air hockey or shuffle board game for a long time now. We just got this American Shuffleboard for FREE on Craig's List. The first thing I did was to remove all of the electronics (so to speak) so that I could start tinkering with it. The rest of the shuffleboard is in the garage and not shown in this video. The legs to the table were water damaged and need serious repair, but my wife and I don't like the style so I am going to build a custom entertainment credenza for the shuffleboard playing surface and score board. I am going to trash the legs and the frame that surrounded the playing surface (I know, some of you collectors and probably tearing your hair out about that). The shellack on the playing surface is chipped away in a lot of places and was abused (I was told that kids liked to tap dance on it). But there are no knicks in the wood. I am going to resurface the playing surface when I place it in the new credenza (which is going to be in our game room that has a Poplar wood theme).

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Shuffleboard Table
• Vitage 50's
• American Shuffleboard Wayne NJ

[GoatHollow]

Wow! Used to play tournament shuffleboard in my "Early days"

[romsk22]

Yes, this thing is so cool. We used to play Shuffleboard for hours at the Ishoda Yacht Club in Norwalk, CT when dad was working on the boat. It is like te only arcade game that you can play for free (if you just keep score manually)

[scottidog4444]

Hello,

Great video presentation. I have aquired and am in the process of restoring a vintage American shuffleboard royal imperial from the 1950's. Do you have any information that would be helpful to me? Thanks

Scott

[Ragrog105]

I got over 24 years working in the arcade/jukebox industry. Let me say this, whatever you do, DON'T convert this to anything even remotely modern. If you do, about 95% of it's true value will be lost if you ever sell it. The selenoids on the stepper relays needs to be cleaned with pure alcohol and a sprinkle of some powdered graphite. Anything else will gum up. Get a diamond contact cleaner, no emery or sandpaper. Replace all the #47 lamps with 1847's. Your 6.3V current will drop by 55%.