Miami

The Miami, manufactured by Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company and issued December 27, 1938, is a single-player electro-mechanical (EM) machine from the flipperless era of pinball. Its theme, drawn from American Places, swimming, recreation, and happiness, reflects the leisure and travel imagery common in games of this period.

The playfield's most notable feature is its bank of 13 spring bumpers, a relatively new mechanical element at the time that added an extra layer of challenge as players tried to route the ball around them. Chicago Coin's own records for this model (listed as Model 59) are unusually murky: production was confirmed at 515 units, though the company's numbering suggests this listing may represent either the Replay or Novelty version of the game, with the two versions difficult to distinguish from surviving photographs.

While the machine's designer and finer points of its artwork are not documented, its status as a rare surviving example of late-1930s EM pinball, complete with an unresolved bit of production history, makes it a genuinely interesting piece for collectors and historians of the era.