Coin
Slot COIN
Magazine
- #004 - 1974 DECEMBER
- December [International
Arcade Museum]
THE
SLOT
1974
This is the fourth issue of THE COIN SLOT, and we are
very pleased with its progress. We are proud to announce
that Mr. Richard Bueschel, author of Lemons, Cherries,
and Bell-Fruit-Gum (a book about the history of slots, soon
to be released by Vestal Press), has agreed to contribute
several articles, and illustrations, one of which is on
this month's cover, which is discribed below. The center
pages of this month?s issue feature both sides of a fold-up
postcard ad sent out by the Watling Manufacturing Co, in
1903. It was submitted by Stephen Leonard, 60E. 12 St. ,
Apt. 6E, N.Y.C., N. Y. 10003, who, by the way, offers
a great list of mechanical antiques for sale, advertised
elsewhere in this issue. Note the similarity between the
cover and center pages. It is amazing to note that these
machines that were so popularduring the turn of the Cent
ury, and manufactured by so many companies, are so dif
ficult to find today.
THIS
MONTH'S
COVER,
by Richard M. Bueschel.
It wasn't until after the turn of the century that Art and
Adolph Caille were able to assemble enough hard cash to
buy out their various backers, but when they did they col
lected all of the machines they had produced under various
names and put them under one banner. Their first adver
tisement for the Caille Brothers Company illustrated a
diverse collection of machines that went all the way back
to the Caille "Lion" (Second from the bottom, leftside),
and the "Black Cat" (Secondfrom the top, second column
from right) machines of 1892, the earliest of the upright slot
machines.
At one time, around 1904, the Cailles were
the largest employers in Detroit, and whem the embryonic
automotive industry got started soon after, it was Caiiie
employees that were first pirated for critical tool and die
work by the automotive manufacturers.
Much has been
written about slot machines that go back as far as the 1870!s
and !80's, but this is not borne out by the record.
Itwasn!t
until 1888 that the Caille brothers, together with their dad,
Joseph, first got patents on cash carrier systems for re
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some of the "New Century" (meaning redisigned) models.
It is doubtful if all of these models were for sale in 1902,
but they made an impressive display of "Caille Original
Creations".
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