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- Flipcommons AI Descriptions (Manufacturer)Glickman was a Philadelphia firm that built its entire pinball business around one idea: converting other manufacturers' games into something new. The company's earliest known titles, *[[title:poko-lite]]* (1937) and *[[title:treasure]]* (1938), were reworked [[manufacturer:bally]] machines — new backglasses, fresh paint, reconfigured playfields sold under a different name. When major manufacturers halted pinball production during World War II, Glickman filled the vacuum. Between 1942 and 1944 the company produced twenty titles — including *[[title:red-heads-of-1942]]* (1942), *[[title:fan-dancer]]* (1942), *[[title:combat-2]]* (1942), *[[title:sailorettes]]* (1942), and *[[title:anti-aircraft]]* (1944) — all built by fitting older machines from [[manufacturer:bally]], [[manufacturer:genco]], [[manufacturer:chicago-coin]], and [[manufacturer:gottlieb]] with new backglasses, [[gameplay-feature:bumpers]], and repainted cabinets. Glickman eventually sold the conversion kits alone, letting operators refresh their own floors without buying a complete machine. It was a niche business, but one perfectly suited to wartime scarcity — and Glickman's prolific wartime output makes it one of the best-documented examples of how the amusement industry adapted when new parts and materials were impossible to get.
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