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Issue: 1980 January 059

Coin Slot Magazine - #059 - 1980 - January [International Arcade Museum]
Richard M. BuesheS
proudly announces
completion of first 10 manuals of The Coin Slot Guide Series.
These manuals have been fotafEy rewritten with Historical Content and Updating.
Most manuals have complete parts list, and schematic photographs; General operating instructions and
trouble shooting etc.
Coin Slot Guide No. 1—Mills BLACK CHERRY, GOLDEN FALLS and JEWEL.
Including a guide to
the Mills BLUE and BLACK BEAUTY and other Mills and Sega Hightop slot machines. $6.95.
Coin Slot Guide No. 2-Jennings CHIEF.
Including a guide to the "One Star" and "Four-Star" CHIEF,
CONSOLE CHIEF, DIXIE BELLE, SILVER CHIEF, SKY CHIEF, SILVER MOON CHIEF, VICTORY
CHIEF and other Jennings CHIEF slot machines produced between 1935 and 1941. $6.95.
Coin Slot Guide No. 3-Cailie SUPERIOR, SUPERIOR JACKPOT and SILENT SPHINX. Including a
guide to the GRAND PRIZE, RESERVE JACKPOT, SUPER JACKPOT, GOLD STAR, NEW DEAL,
JACKPOT, DICTATOR, DOUGH BOY, CADET, COMMANDER, PLAYBOY and other Caille Bell and
Bell Console slot machines. $6.95.
Coin Slot Guide No. 4-Pace DELUXE, ALL-STAR COMET and COMET.
Including a guide to COMET
and ALL STAR COMET Bell, side front vender and gold award models; ROCKET, CLUB BELLf
CHERRY, THREE STAR, SUPER 8, ROYAL COMET, SARATOGA, REELS, TRIPLAY, FREE PLAY
and other Pace and Ace BelS and Bell Console slot machines. $6.95.
Coin Slot Guide No. 5-Jennings CLUB CHIEF and STANDARD CHIEF.
Including a guide to the
SUPER DELUXE CLUB CHIEF, DELUXE CLUB CHIEF, STANDARD CHIEF TIC-TAC-TOE, LUCKY
7, CLUB CONSOLE, STANDARD CHIEF CONSOLE, CHALLENGER, EXPORT CHIEF and other
Jennings CHIEF slot machines produced between 1945 and 1951. $6.95.
Coin Slot Guide No. 6-Mills 21 BELL "7-7-7".
Including a guide to the Mills BONUS, BLACK GOLD,
LEMON, TOKEN, BLUE, BLACK BEAUTY, CHROME 21, 21 STANDARD, WILD DEUCE, BINGO,
STANDARD, REGAL and other Mills, Ace, Auto-Bell and Sega Hightop slot machines. $6.95.
Coin Slot Guide No. 7-Pace PACES RACES. Including a guide to 1935 PACES RACES "Black
Cabinet", 1936 PACES RACES "Brown Cabinet" Standard, and the 20-1, 30-1 and Check Separator
models of PACES RACES produced between 1934 and 1936. $6.95.
Coin Slot Guide No. 8—Mills SILENT "War Eagle". Including a guide to the Mills SILENT VENDER
"War Eagle", SILENT GOOSENECK "Lion's Head", SILENT JACKPOT FRONT VENDER "Mod
ern Front", SILENT GOLDEN "Roman Head", GOOSENECK SILENT "Skyscraper", EXTRAORDIN
ARY "Grey Front", WAR EAGLE "Yellow Front", COUNTRY CLUB BELL "Century", CHROME
"Diamond" and other Mills Silent Bell machines with serials 261,000 through 483,000. $6.95.
Coin Slot Guide No. 9-Watlinq ROL-A-TOP and TREASURY.
Including a guide to the Watling ROL-
A-TOR, ROL-A-TOP, CHERRY, DIAMOND, TREASURY and BIG GAME Bell machines and Console
Bells made by Watling between 1935 and 1951 and the revamps and new ROL-A-TOP Bells made by
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Buckley, Abco Novelty and Bell Fruit Manufacturing Company between 1945 and 1965. $6.95.
A most for all collectors, dealers, restorers and historical researchers.
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Coin Slot Magazine - #059 - 1980 - January [International Arcade Museum]
"Oldies but Goodies"
(Next 15 pages)
It's time the laws were changed
by Richard M. Bueschel,
author of the forthcoming book
LEMONS, CHERRIES AND BELL-FRUIT-GUM
An affectionate technical, social and business history of the mechanical,
coin-operated gaming machine: the slot machine, or "One-Armed Ban
dit" (Vestal Press, scheduled for December 1975)
If you had a uniquely American machine from the late 19th Century, or
the first half of the 20th Century that was beautiful in design, workman
ship and operation; had its own specific place in the history of American
science and technology; had made a major contribution to American
social and commercial history; exemplified American know-how to the
whole world; and one that you had lovingly restored to working order by
yourself, could you keep it ? The answer isn't an easy yes or no. All
you can say is, "It depends, " on what ? Well, it depends on what it is.
If it was an antique automobile, you!d probably be written up in the local
.newspaper as a technical historian, and asked to participate in Memorial
Day Parades. If it was an antique airplane, you'd be well known at anti
que fly-ins and be respected as a mechanical genius. If it was an antique
typewriter, washing machine, shotgun, steam engine, cannon, locomo
tive, camera or juke box, you!d be regarded as someone who had a keen
Understanding of the technological advances of our age, and a historian
to boot.
But, o. If it was a slot machine, you've broken the law I
What kinds of laws are these that permit all American mechanical anti
ques the priviledge of being rediscovered, cared for, restored and pre
served for posterity with the exception of one class of machine ? In a
word: Repressive I
And why do these laws exist at all ? To prevent gambling ? Hardly 1
It's illogical that the citizens living in the many states that raise public
funds through state lotteries, or permit off-track betting, or have open
racing seasons, would be protected against gambling in any way, shape
or form by laws that prohibit the private ownership of antique gaming
machines. For one thing, private ownership of gaining machines would
keep them out of public's hands. The public would rarely see them, or
only see them as often as they might see antique cars, airplanes, or
typewriters. So why do these repressive local, state and Federal laws
exist ?
Quite possibly the answer is the simple one that nobody has gotten around
to changing the old prohibitions now that there no longer is any need for
them. If that's the case, it's time some tiling was done about it. The
whole matter of the ownership and display of mechanical gaming machi
nes is ridden with inconsistencies, inequalities, and needless repression.
It should be straightened out, clarified, and lennlized.
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