1941 JIGGER ARCADE AMUSEMENT GAME - BLAKE MFG CO
I picked up a nice game today at auction. It is a 1941 drop coin amusement arcade game called Jigger, made by Blake Mfg Co out of Holly, MI and released in September of that year. Blake is attributed to 4 amusement games made in 1941 and 1942. The other games were called Jumper (10/1941), V (10/1941) and HU-LA (2/1942). The top of the Jigger case is stamped 3100 Brown Mfg Co - Detroit. I have no idea how Brown Mfg Co would have been associated with the game. In another odd note, a company named Planet Mfg Co out of Detroit is also named as a maker of the Hu-La and V games. The Hu-La game is almost identical to Jigger, except that it has one knob instead of 2 and it's name was written on the side of the case. Here is a picture of a trade ad for HU-LA A vendor could pick up a Jigger game for between $5-7 in 1942. Not long after 1942, I doubt they were available from distributors. The object of the game is to drop a penny in and use the two knobs to rotate the Hula girl back and fort...