Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #043 - 1978 - August [International Arcade Museum]
piece of time.
But if it does show up, the likely areas are Washing
ton, DC; Baltimore; Alexandria or elsewhere in the area. The early
slots usually didn't get too far from home, and when they did they
were widely copied.
The fact that no similar machines were made in
New York, Cincinnati, Chicago or San Francisco suggests they stayed
in the Washington area.
One last touch:
the fact that AUTOMATIC DICE was so com
plicated and electrically sophisticated suggests it was a devil to keep
running, thereby limiting its production.
But Coyle & Rogers had
high hopes in the beginning, promoting models with regular dice or
even small cubes with photographs of candidates for public office
pasted on the flat sides. That's Washington; political from beginning
to end.
(Ed. note — Last month we left out some critical commentary on
Vince Shay in Dick Bueschel's article "What They Looked Like"
so we are re-running the copy on this one man with the omitted
copy from last month.
VINCE
Vincy!
C.
Sorry we goofed!)
SHAY
Everybody
started
ever, as Vince Shay
at Jackson and
Company factory
sharp and fast
He was so
Mills put him
that Herbert S.
into sales before he
old.
And
did
he
was twenty years
se
started out selling
ed his days making
in the fifties.
out as a
old Mills Novelty
clean up boy at the
Green.
knew the kid from
That was later, how-
Lake Forest, Illinois,
His ca-
entire range of the
production slot machine.
sell!
Vince
Shay
DEWEYSandend-
and selling Hightops
reer spanned the
modern
Everybody
high-
knew
om knew every-
c Vince
.
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:
u
body.
He had a totally from
use uncanny knack of re-
m
d
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e
and the last time they went
membering everybody's
name de
load In . later
rca years, in the forties and after, his
n
a
drinking together.
w
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Do //ww also
brother Grant Shay
joined Mills Industries as ad manager,
:
p
t
t
and when h
Vince
and Grant got together hold your wallet and
Vince,
and
better yet,
be ready to break up over everything.
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