Coin Slot Magazine - #062 - 1980 - April [International Arcade Museum]
Yes, there are pictures.
Dear Bill:
Coin Slot Books has re
printed quite a number of old Mills and Caille
Please send me the address for Mercury (Detroit)
catalogs that show arcade machines.
Trade Stimulators if they are still in business.
a list of the reprints, just ask.
would
like
to
have
a
strength test machines.
I
few new faces for the
If you want
Better yet, we're
sending you one.
I would appreciate your
But that's only pictures, and of only one side--
help.
ususally the front. What might help you a lot more
Thanks again,
is the first booklet to be published about arcade
Steve An tine
machines, and there is enough information, enough
Dear Steve;
a full size machine from scratch.
photographs and enough drawings to almost make
The booklet is
Coin Slot Guide No. 27 for the Buckley DIGGER.
Unfortunately, like most of the firms in the coin
The guide actually covers a broad range of Buckley
machine business that were such hot stuff years
digger machines, including the DIGGER, DELUXE
back, the Mercuty firm in Detroit is long out of
DIGGER,
business.
JEWEL
That's part of the problem--and the
CHICAGO,
IMPROVED
BOX and a few others.
CHICAGO,
It'll give you
excitement--of collecting and restoring coin ma
everything you
chines. There's nothing available!
looks just like the original, inside and out.
But maybe other collectors can help.
need to make a miniature that
Publication
of this letter might lead to some "faces" for your
machine.
Dear Sir:
We have a 5 cent Criss Cross slot machine made
Dear Sir;
by the Baker Novelty Co. in Chicago.
We need
I am interested in making some miniature arcade
parts to repair it and my son just ordered and
machines.
received from the Vestal Press a "Guide to the
In our area we still have arcades with
Please
Mills Black Cherry, Golden Falls and Jewell." Do
advise me of the cost of any illustrations you could
you have a book that is specifically for the Criss
provide me with.
Cross and from where do I order the parts?
Very Truly yours,
Thank you.
some of the old machines still in use.
Mrs. Mary Kipriva
Yours truly,
Mrs. Ben Seitz
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see what you've
done.
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all three of which were revamped by Baker from
to miniaturization
and
miniature
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Mills machines.
Wow, what a great idea.
ture arcade.
Miniature arcade ma
Fantastic!
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