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Issue: 1976 November 022

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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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ples of models of both firms exist.
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Coin Slot Magazine - #022 - 1976 - November [International Arcade Museum]
Q:
What double floor machines did Caille make?
Only CENTAUR? What denominations?
were the musicals?
What
What did the earliest Caille
BIG SIX floor models look like?
Did it have
BIG SIX 5-for-1 reverse on glass over center of
wheel?
Did Mills make a floor machine called
LONE STAR?
A: Too many questions!
It would take a book to
answer all of them, which is exactly why I'm
writing a book.
LEMONS, CHERRIES & BELL-
FRUIT-GUM, to be published by Vestal Press,
will answer most of these questions in detail.
All manufacturers and the machines they made
will be listed.
questions broadly.
But for now, we can answer the
Caille made a raft of doubles (which they called
'Twins") with over twenty of them produced, counting the musical
models.
The first was the TWIN PUCK, followed by the other ma
chines as they were introduced. As for the Caille BIG SIX, the Caille
catalogs show these machines as having the perforated nickel-plated
discs similar to the ECLIPSE and CENTAUR, although it is possible
that the early machines had the decorated glass.
The Watling BIG
SIX certainly did as shown in the original catalog artwork for this
machine.
The earlier Caille Machines tended to have more artwork
on the glass, and Watling tended to copy, so the Caille might have set
the pace.
Mills never made a LONE STAR, or PUCK or DETROIT, but Caille
and Watling both
made them all.
It's strange.
While everybody
copied everybody, Mills stayed away from those names.
that everybody made a DEWEY, except Caille.
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At Harrah's
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about every name there was, yet nobody used the name of the
Watling BUFFALO.
Q:
It was all a real hodge-podge, and the actual
the BANNER.
There is no identification and no patent number, al
though it looks something like a Victor machine. Who made it?
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