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Coin Slot Magazine - #V8N5 - 1983 - January [International Arcade Museum]
Reflections
Vintage Collectibles
by Fred Ryan
The year was 1948 in the city of Portland, Oregon,
The manner of destruction was rather unique. Under
and the heat was on. Raids led by the crusading
the direction of a police sergeant, the machines were
city commissioner, J.E. Bennett, resulted in the
destruction of hundreds of the "Iron Mikes" as the slot
machines were referred to in the newspapers
trucked to the Enterprise Foundry where they were
pounded into wreckage, poured into a blast furnace
and melted into sash weights.
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Photos pictured here, #3565 and #3566, are courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society.
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