Coin Slot Magazine - #022 - 1976 - November [International Arcade Museum]
Questions & Answers
By Dick Bueschel
Q: I
have seen a Yale WONDER CLOCK and I
couldn't believe it.
When was it made, and how
many models were produced?
California
A: If it could be stuck on a new century slot ma
chine, the Yale WONDER CLOCK has it ...
5 cent coin operated, floor cabinet, electricity,
chance pointer wheel, automatic token payout,
package
vending,
multi-colored
flashing
red,
white and blue lights (some models yellow and
green), visible flop-card scenes, cigar advertising,
ringing bells, mirrors, music and a clock . . . it's
all there!
The marvelous machine was created
by Charles A. Yale who formed the Yale Wonder
Clock
Company
in
Burlington,
Vermont,
in
1900 to produce the WONDER CLOCK. It was
promoted as a total entertainment center, inclu
ding music, trade stimulation and a chance apparatus.
The market
was ice cream parlors, restaurants, stores and the like.
For the next
four or five years the Yale Wonder Clock Company was one of Regi-
na's largest OEM customers for disc-type musical movements.
An
improved model came out in 1901, followed by two models of the
Yale AUTOMATIC CASHIER AND DISCOUNT MACHINE (probab
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ly the longest machine name carried on a machine, in this case in the
ples of models of both firms exist.
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