Karl,

While returning from the band organ rally in Flint Michigan, I had
a couple of hours to kill in downtown Chicago.  I went to the old
public library building which has undergone a lot of recent renovation.
It is now called the "Chicago Cultural Center".  I went mostly to look
at the ceramic tile mosaic work in the ceilings, and of course the
huge stained glass dome.  There is also now a permanent "Museum of
Broadcasting" which includes collections of radios, TVs, and studio
equipment.  They have a huge collection of video tapes which are indexed
on computer terminals accessible to the public.  If you find something
you want to see, they put the tape in a VCR behind the counter and send
you to a viewing cubicle with a pair of headphones.  There is also a small
operational studio where you or you and a friend can sit at a TV news
set and read news copy from a teleprompter.  For a small fee you can go
home with a video tape of this.  Believe me, its not as easy as they
make it look on the evening news.  But I digress....

Brunswick had a large exhibit set up at the cultural center which had
a theme something like "150 Years of Brunswick Quality".  I think the
exact title is "Boating, Bowling, Billiards, and More, the Brunswick Story,
1845-1995".  I went into the exhibit hoping to see a pinsetting machine.
I was not disappointed.  They have made __LOTS__ of other stuff.  I think
I saw some radios (after the broadcasting museum its kind of a blur).  I
don't recall seeing anything like what you described.  I think finding
the Brunswick "curator" of this exhibit would be very interesting.  The
exhibit is still on display.  The cultural center's phone numbers are:
offices: 312-744-6630   info: 312-346-3278

There were some flyers at the end of the exhibit with Brunswick's
corporate information on them.  I'm pretty sure there was an 800 number.
I'm sorry, but I didn't get any of the flyers.  I'll bet a daytime phone
call to the first number above would get you the name of the Brunswick
contact.

Jody