Anyone know what this Bowling Equipment is?

[Jeremy]

Does anyone know what this is, or have any information about it? Rarity, Value, or anything at all. I assume it's an old score keeping machine? http://www.i.imgur.com/mhIg9ay.jpg http://www.i.imgur.com/kRuRwAn.jpg I'd like to buy it from the alley I'm at and just wondering about a value and stuff. I'd really like to know a lot more about it. Any information helps! Thanks guys. Edit: I've looked all over the Internet for even a similar picture or a name of the equipment. I know it's by AMF because you can see a worn out logo on it.

[bowl1820]

Looks like a old AMF overhead score projector.

You might check over at the bowltech.com forum they handle lot's of the lane equipment questions.

[vdubtx]

Old score projectors. Would use a clear sheet over the glass and write in yellow wax pens on them and scores would project up above the lanes. The bowling center I first learned to bowl in the UK had these.

http://evilsquirrelsnest.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/bowling-sheet.jpg


Not sure they are worth all that much, but to someone it might be.

[hondo]

This is not worth much, if anything. It is an AMF overhead scoring projector.

If you Google "overhead scoring projector" and select images you will see an old Brunswick overhead projector. These were still around in the 80's and there were a few that had them in the 90's. There is an old six lane center in the town I grew up in located downstairs and behind a bar and they still have the Brunswick ones.

Nice.

[Aslan]

Well son...what you have there is a 1923 AMF nuclear powered can opener. Very rare indeed. Not too valuable though. They tried installing them in double wide trailers back in the 30s but then the double-wide trailer market went in the toilet as did the can openers. Only real value now is in the higher density double-wide trailer areas such as Kentucky, West Virginia, Florida, and South Carolina.

Or it's an old scoring thing like they said.

Sidenote: I wish they still used those. Automatic scoring is for ******* (babbletons <---to avoid sanctions).

[Jeremy]

Well son...what you have there is a 1923 AMF nuclear powered can opener. Very rare indeed. Not too valuable though. They tried installing them in double wide trailers back in the 30s but then the double-wide trailer market went in the toilet as did the can openers. Only real value now is in the higher density double-wide trailer areas such as Kentucky, West Virginia, Florida, and South Carolina.

Or it's an old scoring thing like they said.

Sidenote: I wish they still used those. Automatic scoring is for ******* (babbletons <---to avoid sanctions).

Hahahah I laughed. Clever.

[Jeremy]

Do you know of anywhere I can get more information on them? Also I think it'd be cool to use an old one as a bed side table or something cool like that. Clean one up and it'd be pretty cool.

[austin]

I believe it was called tele score.

[Mike White]

Does anyone know what this is, or have any information about it? Rarity, Value, or anything at all. I assume it's an old score keeping machine? http://www.i.imgur.com/mhIg9ay.jpg http://www.i.imgur.com/kRuRwAn.jpg I'd like to buy it from the alley I'm at and just wondering about a value and stuff. I'd really like to know a lot more about it. Any information helps! Thanks guys. Edit: I've looked all over the Internet for even a similar picture or a name of the equipment. I know it's by AMF because you can see a worn out logo on it.

There is something missing from those… And is a sign of the times. There used to be ashtrays and beer bottle holders near the front of tele-score tables.

I've did more than my share of score keeping back in the 70's/80's.

The lamps in those things were hot.

Looking at the picture again, that's not what I kept score on.
I did so on Brunswick equipment, which used a more vertical glass layout filling the middle of the table, rather than horizontal layout at the top of the table.


https://archive.org/download/GoldenYe1960/GoldenYe1960.mpeg

[dyebartdie]

I used to make 10 bucks a night plus a few sodas keeping score for the adult leagues when I was a kid.

[rv driver]

There is something missing from those… And is a sign of the times. There used to be ashtrays and beer bottle holders near the front of tele-score tables.

I've did more than my share of score keeping back in the 70's/80's.

The lamps in those things were hot.

Looking at the picture again, that's not what I kept score on.
I did so on Brunswick equipment, which used a more vertical glass layout filling the middle of the table, rather than horizontal layout at the top of the table.


https://archive.org/download/GoldenYe1960/GoldenYe1960.mpeg
Yeah, this is an old AMF scoring table. I used this one A LOT when I was bowling heavily in the late '70s-early '80s. Our center was an AMF center. You used a grease pencil on the glass. And they were H.O.T!!! Used to sweat just sitting at the table. And people actually used the ash trays. But no drinks were allowed in what we called the "bowling pit" (the seating area, score tables, approaches/ball returns were located a step or two down from the concourse), so no beer bottles. But there were cup holders! Kinda brings a memorable tear to my eye...

[Shaneshu87]

hahahaha these are still used at my local alley i don't bowl there any more, wood lanes 100 year old machines, manual score keeping, aaahh the audacity! the horror! lol i don't know the value of them but they would look pretty cool cleaned up in your man cave.