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Issue: 1975 March 007

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
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illustrations from his book, Almost Everything You Wanted to Know
About American Watches, And Didn't Know
Who To Ask.
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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
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Coin Slot Magazine - #007 - 1975 - March [International Arcade Museum]
THE COIN SLOT
MARCH
1975
Orin Yeager, 7090 W. Fifth Ave., Lakewood, Colo. 80226, has a
magnificent Honest John machine, in "as new" condition (Orin's hobby
is the restoration of old machines, and he does a great job). He would
like to know if there is anyone else out there with a similar machine, and
if anyone could send photo-copies of Honest John literature. Please
contact Orin directly, if you can help him out.
WALTHAM WATCHES
If you have an old pocket watch tucked away somewhere, the
chances are very good that it is a Waltham. This old, reliable company
made millions of watches, many of which are still in service all over the
world. Go to any flea market in any part of the Earth, from Hong Kong
to Portobello Road, and you are sure to find at least a few Walthams for
sale.
The Waltham Watch Co. actually started out as Howard, Davis and
Dennison, in September of 1850, at 34 Water Street (now called East
Street), Roxbury, Mass. Edward Howard and David Davis were
making clocks and scales at this time, and Aaron L. Dennison joined
them, designing and making the machinery to produce watches. In
1851 the name was changed to the American Horologe Co., and then
later that same year to The Warren Manufacturing Co. Apparently
only about 1100 watches were made under the Warren name, and in
September 1853 the company was called The Boston
Watch
Co.,
located at Roxbury and Waltham, Mass. Throughout these name
changes, the three originators, Howard. Davis and Dennison,
continued to be active, taking on new partners and shedding them
along the way. The Boston Watch Co. failed in May of 1857, and a new
company, Tracy, Baker and Co., was immediately formed, this time
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1902.
Dennison left the States and went to Birmingham, England, where he
started a watch case factor}'. He died there in 1895. Howard, the second
originator of the company, bowed out in 1857 to form E. Howard and
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