Author Topic: "Twenty-One" (1956-58)様ooking for photos/videoclips (score displays)  (Read 594 times)

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Offline RJSchex

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For the original (and notoriously rigged) version of "Twenty-One" hosted by Jack Barry from 1956 to 1958, there are a couple of images I'm trying to find容ither on video (whole episodes not needed, just clips) or in still photos. Here's what I'm looking for:

(1) An image of the display on Jack's podium (under the sponsor logo, usually Geritol) displaying the champion's total winnings at that point, in which the numeral "3" appears within the total. (A possibility, if it exists, might be Charles Van Doren's final episode; before he lost to Vivienne Nearing, his winnings had totaled $138,000.) Display used a 4x6 numeral font, similar to the "tote board" style. A similar font (some digits differed) was used by many vintage sports scoreboards, most notably that of the 1950-58 Yankee Stadium scoreboard.

(2) An image of the contestant scoreboards (in front of their booths) in which either the number "3" or "13" appears. (5x8 font; the 50's version of Tic Tac Dough used this font, except that the "1" was serifless; there, the "3" had an odd design.)