Coin Slot Magazine - #061 - 1980 - March [International Arcade Museum]
Cdifors Statement
As in almost all of our past issues we would again
hear
like to thank all of our new subscribers and the
stories, articles, experiences or what have you in
many renewals for joining us for more good news
exchange for advertising space, books, a subscrip
and views.
tion or even money (which could be the least return
from
you.
We'll
for your investment).
be happy to
print your
Our staff will retain the
In our attempt to make the magazine interesting
right to edit unless a specific written agreement
and informative we are going to solicit your assist
has been made with Mr. Harris.
ance.
You collectors of coin operated machines
and related paraphenalia are the interest. You can
Going on in the same vein, there are a lot of shows
share your knowledge and e f)erience with us and
and auctions in many different states. We are able
stir up interest in the new collectors.
to
attend
some
of them, but not all of them.
We know our readers would like to see pictures
The staff of our magazine has remained small in
(black and white please) and to read a description
comparison with others, but we like to feel that
of the happenings.
our readership has grown because a lot of infor
agreeable monetary arrangement for such articles.
mation
Slot.
is
contained
in
the
Again, well make a mutually
pages of The Coin
If some of you have a yen to put your
THE EDITOR
thoughts and experiences on paper, we'd like to
The Coin Slot and Bill Harris wish STEVE GRONOWSKI Good
Luck and Good Selling for his upcoming show.
LOOKING AHEAD - LOOKING BACK
Standing at the vantage point which time offers
western.
we
coast was not among the pioneers.
find many changes have taken place in the
collection of antique slot machines.
us
who
have
been
The
interesting
note is that the east
To those of
Our second map was published in the October,
involved over the years the
changes have been subtle and almost unnoticed.
1979 issue.
The "young" collector has been able to see some
of states
of the major alterations in just a few short years.
slot machines has tripled.
As you can easily see the number
permitting
legal possession of antique
We also note that the
east coast has joined the west.
One example of this thought can graphically be
seen by comparing two maps.
The first was pub
lished by The Coin Slot in December, 1977.
find the pioneer states shown:
We
The Coin Slot is proud to have been a part in
California, Oregon,
promoting the interest in you the readers to bring
Washington, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Minne
sota and Missouri.
laws
permitting
machines.
Each of these eight states had
about the changes which can be seen in the com
parison of these two maps.
legal possession of antique slot
The sematics were different, but the
but only the efforts of individual collectors can
cause the legislators to effect the necessary legal
changes.
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© The International Arcade Museum
Information and en
couragement can be given through the periodicals,
end result was the same.
esting point.
In only two short
years the entire picture has changed significantly.
Thanks to the many hundreds of you
won the support of your states and we
all join together in offering our encouragement to
those
of you
legislators.
who
are
still
working with your
It will be interesting to see the map
next year at this time.
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