Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #082 - 1981 - December [International Arcade Museum]
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Letters to the Editor
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Dear Editor,
A great big CONGRATULATIONS on your November
1981 color covers. It has been long overdue. I consider this
publication to be "numero uno" in the field. It has always had
many interesting articles dealing with its main purpose — coin
operated machines, and not articles which would compete with
Better Homes and Gardens. It is such a pleasure to read the
many letters from your readers and find so much individual help
given. This is very professional. Hope we can keep this magazine
on the top and as thick as the November issue, if not thicker, for
many years to come.
Many thanks for the kind words in the lead-in story for my
articles on trade stimulators which started with your November
collector's issue. I am proud to be a part of such a fine
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publication with a great staff of authors. They all do a superior
job. I must also thank Dick Bueschel for all of the help and
encouragement that I have received from him over the years.
Also another congratulations to Dick Bueschel for the article in
the November issue titled "A Question of Value." He tells it
exactly as it is. There are just far too many reproduction
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machines on the market today. Anyone that is building such a
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repro machine should label it as such in the year it was
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"buyer beware". As in every field of collectables, there is always
completed and not try to pass it off as a 1920's or 1930's
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machine that it may represent It has really become a game of
going to be the "get rich quick" clan. But once everyone catches
wind of them, they're gone.
I also enjoyed the article by Nic Costa on my good friends
Gaston and Francine Stiel of France. They have what has got to
be one of the finest collections that I know of in all of the foreign
countries, and probably the U. S. Showing just a small portion of
their fantastic collection has been long overdue. I only hope that
Mr. Costa can do a followup to this in a future article and show
our readers more of their fine treasures.
There is also much praise that should be given to my good
friend Dave Evans for his many good articles. He is another fine
writer.
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Sincerely,
Bill Whelan
Dear Bill,
Wow!! We have not only a fine author, but a friend It has
taken many, many months to bring The Coin Slot to its present
state and we owe an awful lot to you and the people you
mentioned as well as to many others. Perhaps our greatest
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advocates are the ones who stuck by us when the articles were
few and the format was small We'll keep the past issues as a
reminder of the struggle upward and we (our staff) promise to
do our very best to continue improving the magazine.
We certainly enjoyed Nic's article on Francine and Gaston
Stiel. They have an absolutely beautiful collection and we have
long wanted to publish an article about them. Nic will be doing
more articles like this about other European collections.
Our hats are offto Dick Bueschel and Da ve Evans too. They
have both been very generous with their time and their pens
seem never to run dry. They along with our many other
contributing authors make The Coin Slot what it is today.
Thank you Bill— both for your great articles and your very
complimentary letter.
Sincerely,
The Editor
© The International Arcade Museum
12-THE COIN SLOT
http://www.arcade-museum.com/
December 1981