I bought these two pin-up punchboards years ago and just now discovered them again. They’re from the 30’s and were often found at drug stores, carnivals and roadside gas stations. This one measures 10″ x 20″.
You paid a nickel and got to select a hole to punch out, which provided you with a little slip of paper with info on it determining if you won a cash prize or not. Amazingly, only a few holes were punched on these when I bought them and I can’t bring myself to punch any myself as the more punched the boards are, the lower the value. The one below measures 10″ x 13″. The artwork on these sure beats today’s tacky lottery cards you scratch. No doubt about it– I was born in the wrong decade.
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Allee Willis
These are in amazingly great shape. Unpunched and virginal.
I used to come across these fairly frequently but never understood what they were for. Now I see that they were kind of like slot machines. Thank God I didn’t know or I’d have punched out every little slip of paper.
Did you find them both together?
Douglas Wood
Yes, I found them together and I’m embarrassed to say I paid A LOT for them as it was in my early days of collecting and I hadn’t yet developed the ability to haggle (or to pass up cool items because they were too pricey.)