Deluxe Wild Widow
About This Machine
The Deluxe Wild Widow, produced by the Carrohart Specialty Company of Chicago, Illinois in 1933, is a pin table from the early era of the pinball industry. Little detailed information survives about this machine, which adds to its mystique for collectors and historians researching pre-war pinball.
As a single-player pin table typical of the early 1930s, gameplay would have involved a plunger launching a metal ball onto a playfield of pins and scoring lanes, well before the introduction of flippers or electromechanical scoring. Its design, artwork, and specific features are not documented in surviving records.
Given how few games from this early period survive intact, the Deluxe Wild Widow remains a notable, if largely undocumented, artifact from pinball's pioneering years.