Rosmalen 2010


Last year we brought five machines with us, but this year we even  brought more and besides that we showed a Basketball Champ and a very special Pinball, called Struggle Buggies. In the pinball we fitted a home made backglass and we were anxious to know if somebody would notice that! However at the end of the fair it appeared that nobody saw the difference and when we told them about the backglass, everybody was very surprised.

But our main goal was to show our bingo's

There were five woodrails (Broadway, Ice Frolics, Variety, Surf Club and a Big Show)
and two with metal legs (a Galaxy and a Miss America 75). The story of the Miss America has already been published on this site and to show the bingo is in an absolute new condition, we opened the backdoor, so that public was able to see the inside of it.

Transport was done by Peter Hoebert, who put a lorry of his international removal firm at our disposal and on the friday his employees brought the nine machines to Rosmalen. With help of a hydraulic device it was very easy to put every machine in the stand

As usual a few light bulbs had to be refitted after the transport, but by this luxury way of transport all machines arrived in very good condition.


After opening at 10.00 sharp the first usual visitors arrived. Some of them needed a little explication, because not everyone played a Variety or Surf Club in the past and registering the credits of the Ice Frolics appeared to be difficult too.

Fortunately we brought enough bingo's, for some visitors played for hours. Unnecessary to say that the bingo's did their job without any problem for two days and we did not need our tools or spare parts during the weekend.

Probably Rock around the Jukebox in Rosmalen is the greatest 50's, 60's and 70's fair in Europe and that's why not only many sellers are coming abroad, but there were many visitors from abroad. But we were the one and only with Bally Bingo's!!!

It meant two days standing on our feet in the stand, two days of explaining that a bingo ain't a pinball without flippers and two days to discover that there are just a few Dutchmen who still know the old bingo. This is in contrast with the Belgium visitors, who still know them very well and played a lot with the machines.

We hoped that with so many foreign visitors, we could meet a few of our British friends, but sadly enough we could not shake hands with any of them.

May be next year, when we can present ourselves with even more machines.