Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #053 - 1979 - July [International Arcade Museum]
Cdiforh Statement
The response to our Coin Slot Library has been
fantastic.
We appreciate your interest in all phases
of coin operated machines.
We attempted to in
We will be updating the library as more infor
mative or enjoyable pamphlets, articles, posters and
books become available or are brought to our atten
clude a fair sample from a variety of interesting
tion.
machines.
certain items which cannot be obtained for one
Regretably we also must at times delete
reason or another.
For those of you interested in musical machines,
we gave you manuals, histories, posters, etc. to add
to your collection.
Thanks again for your terrific response.
We hope that you found these
to be not only informative, but also enjoyable.
That's it until
next month, but we'll have a
whole section covering the June W. W. Associates
For the avid collector of slot machines and pin-
auction at Disneyland.
ball machines we included various manuals, des
criptive books, posters and related paraphernalia.
JSefters to tRe Cdifor
to say, some of the material reprinted by Coin Slot
Dear Editor;
Books.
Sn
the
February
issue of the Coin Slot, Gil
Folsom wrote in the Editor's Statement about an
But to do this job it takes the purchase or
loan of the original material, and that costs a lot of
money.
old Mills Promotional brochure with color pictures
of War Eagle & Super Bell machines.
Where can I
Rather than put out the cash up front, resulting
in a limited number of original reprints, Coin Slot
get such a brochure or reprint of the same?
Books approached author Dick Bueschel and asked
him if he would be willing to embark on a major
Sincerely,
Don
publication effort in order to create an inventory
of Coin Slot Guides, illustrating, describing and
Dear Don;
providing maintenance and manual repair data for
a variety of machines. Dick responded in kind and
Good question, Don, and up to now one no one
could really answer.
tional
brochure
Yes, there is a Mills promo
that
illustrates
both
the
"War
said that he was willing to open his paper collec
tion up to collectors and prepare the Coin Slot
Guides, but added that as extensive as his collection
Eagle" and the "Lion's Head" (the old operator
might be he didn't have everything.
name for the Bell machine that was mis-labelled
tacted the collectors he knew that had "paper"
"Super Bell" in later years).
and to date all of them have willingly loaned, traded
lem; there's only one!
But that's the prob
Maybe two or three if the
secret collectors of slot machine "paper" -- as it's
So Dick con
or sold their material to Dick to get this ambitious
project started.
called -- have some that we don't know about.
Obviously you'll never get a look at the one unless
I'm not sure if Coin Slot Books is ready to
you're willing to spend hundreds of dollars for it.
announce the availability of The Coin Slot Guides
yet,
by the
m but I can tell you this; the first Coin Slot
.co Guide
is already on press, and 100 guides - yes,
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Also,
the
chances
of it being reprinted
owner are slim as that is a very costly thing to do.
and some of it has been reprinted with mixed re
sults.
The best reprint material to date has been
by Loose Change, Post-Era Books and, we're glad
© The International Arcade Museum
Each Coin Slot Guide will have a machine his
tory,
list the many
machines in the same line,
carry a lot of machine pictures and old advertising
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