Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #044 - 1978 - Machine
September No.
[International
Arcade Museum]
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THE COIN SLOT 44
"MOSt Wanted" List
Manufacturer: The Leo Canda Company
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Machine Name: SKYSCRAPER
Date Introduced: 1898
Most collectors of the bigtime slots
think of trade stimulators as small table
top gadgets that spun a wheel or a reel
or tossed some dice and left all of the
coin-machine excitement up to the auto
matic payouts.
used to say.
Not so, McGee, as they
With the exception of the
double or triple automatic color wheel
machines
some of the biggest chance
feature coin
the
machines ever built were
trade stimulators.
But for some
reason the big trade machines have a low
survival rate. Perhaps it's because people
often
don't
they are.
been
recognize them
for what
Many of the discoveries have
late,
mostly
in
the
1970s,
with
some of the monster trade stimulators
making their first appearances in collec
tions in the last few years.
The Yale WONDER CLOCK made
in
Burlington,
Vermont,
in
1900 and
its later AUTOMATIC CASHIER AND
DISCOUNT
MACHINE
variants
were
really identified in the last three or four
years and now around half a dozen are
known.
It was only in the last year or
two that the STAR TRADE REGISTER
in Montpelier,
.com Vermont, by the
m
:
u
Register
Company starting
rom -muse
f
d
in
1903,
was
identified
for what it was
de cade
a
o
l
r
wn ww.a when an example showed up in a mu
The Sky o
D Scraper
seum. Where's the museum? In Wlont-
://w
Nickel machine; p the
5 sets
htt at the
pelier, Vermont, naturally. Then another
of wheels revolve
made
Star Trade
same time. You pay re
wards in trade checks,
cigars or merchandise.
STAR TRADE
REGISTER showed up
in an old Vermont store.
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