THE
COIN SLOT
MARCH
Coin
Slot Magazine
- #007 - 1975 - March [International
Arcade Museum]
1975
Dear Readers,
THE COIN SLOT has been sold to John Caler, of J.
W.
Caler
Publications Corp., 7506 Clybourn Ave., Sun Valley, California 91352.
As of March
1,
1975, please address all checks,
renewals,
and
correspondence to him. John will continue to publish TCS, and all
subscribers and advertisers will continue to receive their issues and ads
as originally agreed.
John has been a collector of antique mechanicals for a number of years,
and specializes in coin-ops. He is currently restoring what is probably
the ultimate mechanical antique, a Messerschmidt 104 airplane! His
company,
J.
W.
Caler
Publications,
deals
in
books
on
antique
mechanical subjects, such as planes, trains, and gambling devices, etc.
Edith and I know that John will continue to put out THE COIN SLOT
on a basis that will satisfy all of our subscribers, and we wish him the
very best of luck.
In this space in last month's issue, we wrote about a problem Dick
Zeller of Troy, N. Y. was having with his Berger Chicago Ridge
machine. This month's "crisis" involves Bob Nadol, 225 Lincoln Way
#307, San Francisco, Calif. 94122, who has a few questions in regard to
hisDewey Mills machine. He writes: "(the machine) runs perfectly on
quarters, and all the cabinet work and metal work seem old, original
and unrepaired ... The man I purchased it from swears it came out of
Wisconsin, where it had been stored for many years. However, I have
subsequently met a collector who claims the lion's-head feet and
dog-head plaques by the jack pot are only found on English machines.
Also, there are owl-head lifts, rather than handles on either side of the
cabinet.7'
A phone call to the slot expert, Dick Bueschel of Chicago, confirmed
that Bob has nothing to worry about. The companies who made the
"great slots" (pin wheel models) did not make their own cabinets, or
castings, but bought these from jobbers. They would vary from batch
to batch, and, according to Dick, there are over two hundred different
castings used on Mills machines. So, it would seem that Bob Nadol
does have quite a nice, unique machine in his collection, and it is all
original.
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The feature
article
in
this
issue
is on Waltham watches. We would
Do Lt.
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Col.
USAF (Ret) for helping us
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the article together, and for special permission to use
illustrations from his book, Almost Everything You Wanted to Know
About American Watches, And Didn't Know
Who To Ask.
More
information on this excellent book is to be found elsewhere in this issue.
If you
are interested
in American watches, this
is the very best book
© The
International
Arcade Museum
http://www.arcade-museum.com/
out, and I strongly recommend it.
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