Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #009 - 1975 - June [International Arcade Museum]
location for profit, while allowing the interstate sales and
exchange and private ownership of antique gaming machines
not operated for profit.
3.
Provide exemption for non-commercial, privately owned
antique slot machines from the annual Federal IRS gaming
machine tax stamp of $250. to make it economically feas
ible to own, restore and collect antique gaming machines
that do not provide an economic return on their investment,
4.
5.
Revise state and local laws to permit the private ownership
sale and display of antique coin-operated mechanical gaming
(including slot) machines 25 years old or older for personal
or home use and enjoyment to decriminalize the ownership
of noncommercial slot machines.
License antique slot machine collectors and machines at
a modest fee, if necessary (as has been done with antique
cars and airplanes) to clearly define the difference between
a privately owned historical antique and a commercial machine
operated for profit.
Note: This may well generate state or local tax dollars from
an area currently not providing them.
Much as the ban on the transport or public sale of alcoholic beverages was
the prohibition after World War I, the all-encompassing gambling laws
that now prevent private ownership of antique gaming machines were the
prohibition after World War n. When President Harry Truman signed the
pills in the summer of 1951 that brought the active age of the slot machine
to an end by prohibiting interstate shipment, there was no way of knowing
that, at some future date, these bills would inhibit and criminalize honest
historical research, as well as the collection and enjoyment of a uniquely
American class of amusement machines.
The prohibition of booze had its repeal barely over a dozen years after it
became law. The prohibition on the private ownership and display of
antique gaming machines has already lasted almost twice as long.
fli'g time the laws were change^.
IN ANSWER TO QUESTIONS FROM READERS:
( ref April/May issue) Mills Red Front- years ago 1944 or 1945 when re
building machines was the big thing I heard a man say he had bought a big
bunch of "Red Fronts", I asked him what these were and I quote to the best
of my memory "Nothing but Blue Fronts with Skill Buttons painted red in
stead of blue, (they) had a fix on in Georgia with skill buttons and got
Mills to paint them red". I have also heard they operated red fronts in
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