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Apr 20, 1994 · Marcine P. “Iggy” Wolverton, 76, co-founder and retired president of Midway Manufacturing Co. in Franklin Park, designed, developed and produced coin-operated amusement devices that included...
Jun 6, 2023 · By Matt Harding on June 6, 2023 INSTANT REPLAY. A trio of industry movers and shakers of Midway Manufacturing and Bally Manufacturing fame are now joined in the Amusement Industry Hall of Fame – Marcine Wolverton, Hank Ross and Bill O’Donnell.
Midway Mfg. Co. began in November 1958 as an independent manufacturer of amusement equipment founded by Henry Ross and Marcine Wolverton. It was purchased by Bally in 1969. Bally, at that time, was a leader in the manufacture of slot machines.
- 1958; 65 years ago
Apr 17, 1994 · Marcine Palmer Wolverton. Birth. 31 Aug 1917. Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA. Death. 17 Apr 1994 (aged 76) Burial. Lake Forest Cemetery. Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois, USA Add to Map.
Ross is a walking history of the company. He tells how he and his partner Marcine “Iggy” Wolverton founded Midway in 1958, debuted with a quasi-legitimate bingo-pinball game called Red Ball, and followed with a parade of pinball and “pitch & bat” games housed in pinball cabinets. Winner (1964) might have been the most ingenious of the lot.
Jan 24, 2019 · In 1969, they would purchase Henry Ross and Marcine Wolverton’s Midway Manufacturing Company, a developer of amusement equipment founded a decade before in 1958. After merging their pinball division with Midway in 1982, the latter company became known collectively as Bally/Midway.
The addition of flippers and bumpers transformed pinball from a gambling machine to a skill game. In 1969, Bally purchased Midway Manufacturing Co., another amusements manufacturer (previously established by Henry Ross and Marcine “Iggy” Wolverton).
