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Issue: 1979 June 052

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Coin Slot Magazine - #052 - 1979 - June [International Arcade Museum]
Crown Publishers, Inc./
Nancy White Kahan, Director of Publicity & Public Relations
One Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016/(212) 532-9200
DROP COIN HERE
The book of Antique Coin-Operated
Gambling, Vending, and Arcade Machines
of aesthetics gone wild and mechanical ingenuity.
—A Holy Water Vender, the first coin-oper
They really caught on in the late 19th century,
ated machine, c. 200 B.C.
and now they are everywhere bought, sold, coll
ected, restored, and appreciated for their colorful
—An "Automatic Phrenologist" that reads
designs and Rube Goldberg-like machinery.
"wheels in you head" for 5c, 1894.
DROP
COIN HERE is the collector's guide to these enter
—A Dictionary-Lexicon that opens for a
taining relics of a bygone era.
An absolute must
for the collector, it has both an informative history
penny, 1900.
of the machine's development and manufacture,
—A Toilet Paper Dispenser-yes, even in the
privy the proprietor makes profit!
plus valuable collecting and restoring information
1903.
and a general price guide.
—A One-Armed Bandit, a carved wooden
320 photographs (over 70 in full color) show
life-size "bandit" with a slot machine in
actual machines from the finest collections in the
his chest, early 1950's.
country.
Here are slot machines, gumball vendors,
strength testers, fortune tellers, trade stimulators,
shoeshine machines, peep shows, pinball machines,
These coin-operated machines are a little more
unusual than the penny gum machine that you
cigar venders, horse race machines, perfume vend
remember so fondly from your childhood.
ers, electricity machines, peanut dispensers, lung
From
Roman times, when machines dispensed holy water
testers,
for three drachma, to modern times, when ma
(1839), roulette machines, one-wheel slots, diggers,
poker
games,
America's oldest machine
chines do everything from sealing your valuables
automatons, scales, and more.
in plastic to serving your coffee with two sugars
DROP COIN HERE is the first book to cover
and extra cream, they have appealed to the imagin
the entire subject of coin-operated machines.
ation.
If
you're interested in reliving your youth with a gum-
One of the hottest new collectibles around is
ball machine, finding out how people used to gam
the coin-operated machine, a masterly combination
new collectible
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Publication Date:
By Ken and Fran Rubin
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Coin Slot Magazine - #052 - 1979 - June [International Arcade Museum]
FOR SALE
1- Mills "SUPERIOR"
$3,500.00
1-Mills "JOCKEY" (early model)
$2^000.00
**Both in excellent condition - for the pair
$5,000.00
**l will consider trade for early Slot Machines, Trade Stimulators, or unusual
Three Reelers**
* ATTENTION HOME USE DEALERS - JUKE BOX & PINBALL*
1- Rockola "EMPRESS" (1962)
$495.00
6-Seeburg-Model AY & DS (1963)
ea. $395.00
**These machines have been completely overhauled, and are truly magnificent
for home recreation use**
PINBALLS - 1970-1974 - re-conditioned or as is, just off our routes $150.00 & up
**We have on hand at all times, at least 200 Pinball Machines of this type**
STAN HARRIS
"G" & LYCOMING STREETS
PHILADELPHIA, PA
Day Phone-215-426-7500 & Night Phone - 215-379-3214
**Photosofthe "SUPERIOR", "JOCKEY", and Juke Boxes will be $1.00 each**
ARKANSAS GAZETTE, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1978. • 5A
Slots clear step
LANSING (UPI) - The state
Senate has given unanimous ap
proval to a bill allowing the
state's select few lovers of anti
que slot machines to maintain
private collections.'
The measure was sent to the
House Wednesday on a 33-0
Senate vote.
It was introduced by Sen.
Thomas Gaustello, D-St. Clair,
on behalf -ol a constituent whose
collection of the old one-armed
bandits was trucked to Lansing
last week and exhibited to
lawmakers.
The measure exempts slot
machines from the state's anti-
gambling laws if they are owned
by a private collector, are 25
years old or older and are not us
ed for gambling.
250 'Slots' Confiscated
By IRS at Fort Smith Fair
Gazette State News
FORT SMITH — Internal Revenue Service agents confis
cated 242 "gaming devices" at the closing of the Arkansas-
Oklahoma District Fair Saturday because federal revenue
taxes had not paid on the machines, the IRS said Monday.
The devices were coin-operated
slot machines, the IRS said. An
IRS spokesman at Little Rock
said the IRS code requires the
purchase of $250 federal revenue
tax stamps for the operation on
coin-operated devices that involve
a game of chance through the in
sertion of coins or tokens.
United States Attorney Larry
McCord of Fort Smith said Tues
day that he did not know whether
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his office would await a final re
McCord said the IRS placed the
machines in storage and would
initiate proceedings to have the
machines destroyed. He said the
owners would have a right to ap
peal.
IRS agents confiscated the ma
chines on a search warrant issued
by federal Magistrate Allan Woo-
ten of Fort Smith.
Charles
Huckabee,
an
IRS
agent, signed an affidavit in sup
port of the search warrant that
said he and other agents played
port and recommendation by the the machines Friday and alleg
IRS before deciding whether to edly received winnings coins, to
file charges.
© The International Arcade Museum
kens and other prizes.
http://www.arcade-museum.com/

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