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klaschatx:
Best wishes and a happy New Year to you all!

I’m the german foos-fanatic from website http://www.kickerbau.org. It’s a non-commercial website including some information about foosball tables and how to build them. Some month ago "thebodygroove" invented you to visit that page for taking a look on a comparison of Tornado-figure and Fireball-figur, if you remember.

Now I’m searching for some information about football table history, because I want to write some articles about it. Indeed I found many fascinating information on the web, but some questions are not answered yet. So I hope you all may help me.

Some Tornado-Questions:

I found the first Tornado-table, constructed 1970 by Robert Furr and Robert Hayes. This table was built with corner-ramps, a glass playing surface and a 1-figure-goalie-rod. And even the figures are not the figures we know today as Tornado-figures.

1) The modern Tornado-figure of our days has been styled in 1989 (Inventor: McCloud). Is this correct?

2) Can you tell me the year of appearance of the “new” Tornado-style with 3-man-goalie-rod, flat corners and sidestrip?

Tournament Soccer:

I worry about finding absolutely no real information about the Tournament-Soccer-tables on the web. The only thing I found is the US-patent of Peppard’s Soccer-figure. The old Tournament-Soccer-tables seem to be built between 1973 and 1981. And I heard about a brown-top and a blue-top table.

3) Do you got any own photos or pictures of old Tournament-Tables? Please let me know and send a copy to klaschatx@kickerbau.org. If you got some old paper-pictures - please don’t hesitate and just photograph them with your Digital-Cameras. Quality will be pretty good enough for a website.

4) The head of the patented Tournament-Soccer-Figure looks like an old Deutscher-Meister-figure. But today Tournament-Soccer-Figures wear a cap. When did it change? Or is the old original Tournament-Soccer-figure the figure without cap until the end of Tournament-Soccer-challenges in 1981?

Dynamo-tables?
In the seventies there were Tornado-tables and Dynamo-tables.

5) What about the Dynamo-tables? I yet did not find any information. Are there some pictures out there? Please let me know.

b) Today Tornado is a label of Dynamo Valley. When did the concerns merge?

By the way: If you got some own photos of Warrior tables, the ITSF-Tornado with 1-figure-goalie-rod or pictures of Bonzinis or even other old-style- or recent tables - let me know too and please send your pictures to klaschatx@kickerbau.org. I really miss some information about these tables on http://www.kickerbau.org. So your help is welcome. Even all pictures of old “Foosball match” tables, old Rene-Pierres or the old “Deutscher-Meister”-tables (Duescher Meister, German Master, Luxus etc.) are welcome.

Thank you very much for reading this long text and any help you may give. The article-series about foosball table history will be fascinating - and you can help to make it much better with your information and your pictures. Maybe some day we can translate that history into English. Till that day google-translation may help.

Greetings from Germany
klaschatx

Tyler Foos:
Klaschatx,

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Tyler

bstone:
Some places to look for info...

History of American Foosball
http://www.foosmovie.com/foosball_movie_documentary_history_table_soccer.htm

Table Soccer Almanac
http://www.worldtablesocceralmanac.com/Reviews.html

You should also look for help at "the" foosball board, if you already haven't. Many players with many years of experience/history there.
http://www.foosballboard.net

wildcard:
I remember playing on that first 1970 Tornado table with the glass top and single goalie man (This would have been about 1977). The handles were wood as I recall. I was in our local game room, but was in poor shape and the owner had just gotten new TS tables. What I thought was neat though was a 2bar shot down that glass surface would sound like a "sizzle" before it plunked into the goal. Ahhh, memories.

mudfarmer:
here's some dynamo pics i recently noticed while looking around
http://cgi.ebay.com/DYNAMO-FOOSBALL-TABLE-SOCCER-BALL-COIN-OPERATED-GAME_W0QQitemZ350300429238QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item518f885bb6
http://dallas.craigslist.org/ftw/tag/1502724825.html
rock on

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