Coin Slot Magazine - #064 - 1980 - June [International Arcade Museum]
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(Reprinted
with
permission
from
the
Saginaw News.)
In the 35 years, he retired from the Michigan State
By Andy Tessler
Police and became a salesman. He also went from
News Staff Writer
destroyer to a restorer of the illegal machines.
As a lawman 35 years ago, he destroyed slot
machines by the truckload. His scrapbook has a
burglary at his home.
In the late 1940s he arrested a man for havi ng a slot
picture of him hauling off a machine to join hun
dreds of others he smashed before they were melted
and out of uniform, he wanted a slot machine for a
He asked his address not be published for fear of a
at an auto plant.
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He describes himself as one of the chief factors in
knocking out slot machines in Saginaw and he sent
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his superiors to de prison d
for
e taking payoffs from
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gamblers.
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Do William
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p in the original stands, lining the walls
about 20,
htt some
machine in a Kawkawlin restaurant. Five years later
little entertainment in his basement. "I went to the
same guy and he sold me one. Itwas the same model
as I had broken years before."
The seller gradually taught him to repair the
intricate combination of levers, springs, catches and
fingers. As he learned to repair them, he bought
He is a bit of a slot machine
more, some for parts.
He said some of his collection once resided in a
historian and has a business card advertising his
Catholic church in Three Rivers, a press club and a
hobby.
bar.
of his basement.
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- THE COIN
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JUNE, 1980
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