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
in Reno there is a musical floor machine called
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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