Coin Slot Magazine - #022 - 1976 - November [International Arcade Museum]
A: Just about everybody that knows slot ma
chines that sees the BANNER at Harrah's has
an opinion.
The
Victor is close, but not quite.
machine was
made
by
the
McDonald
Manufacturing Company in Chicago, and was
introduced at the end of 1900.
Both "regu
lar" and "musical" models were introduced at
that time.
James W. McDonald, founder of
the firm, had worked with Mortimer B. Mills
(the father of H.S. Mills) at the time that Mills
was first working out the mechanism of the
OWL.
When the OWL, and successive floor
machines,
became
so
successful
McDonald
went off on his own at the end of 1898 and
started producing a series of large yet mechanically successful floor
machines. The BANNER was his sixth machine. It did fairly well (so
more of them should be around somewhere) but the pressures of
price reductions and a poor economy put McDonald out of business.
In 1904 he joined up with T.V. Skelly in the formation of The Vic
tor Novelty Works, with the following Victor machines showing both
Skelly's coin head and McDonald's cabinet and design influence.
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