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'The colorful story of the world’s most popular gaming device,' this rare book has it all! 256 pages, 617 photographs, 361 in full color, mathematics, mechanisms, advertisements, line drawings, maps, rich text, bibliography and index.
'It is all here. The complete and colorful story of coin-operated chance machines from the time they first became prevalent in the early 1890’s up to the coin gaming found in today’s casinos.'
SLOT MACHINES – A Pictorial History of the First 100 Years – The Colorful Story of the World’s most Popular Gaming Device by Marshall Fey, Liberty Bell Books, Nevada, 1983/1989.
'Every important slot manufactured during the first 100 years is carefully represented both in text and by more than 600 photographs and newspaper articles, all serving to chronicle this colorful segment of Americana.
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The book covers by chapter: Why it Happened Here; San Francisco, Cradle of Slot Machines (Inception – poker and wheel machines); Charlie Fey and the Liberty Bell (Birth of the Bell slot machine); A Shaking for the Slot Machine (San Francisco earthquake and fire); Renaissance to Reform (Rebuilding from the fire – slots allowed); Thomas Edison of Slot Machines (Numerous machines by Charlie Fey); Hitting the Jackpot by Larceny (Mills, Caille, Watling Bell families); TheGum Age (Slots vend gum – prohibition); The Roaring Twenties: Mints and Jackpots (Aluminum – mints – jackpots – speakeasys); The Golden Age: Opulence and Glamour (Depression – classic designs – raid); Munitions to Annihilation (War – post war boom – new laws); Circumventing Innovations (Ruses – disguises – themes); Nevada and Atlantic City: A Legal Approach (Montana, Maryland, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, etc.); Adapting Slot Machines for Casino Play (New generation of machines and manufacturers); The Electronic Age Video and Stepper Slots (TV Bells – poker – electronic games – Mega-Bucks); Second Generation: Inventor and Operator (Edmund Fey: Son of Charles Fey); Restoration and Collecting; Liberty Belle Collection; How the Darn Things Work; Mathematics; Chicago Factories; More Wheels; Depression Stimulators; Bibliography; Index; Legal States to Collect Antique Slot Machines (Legal years for each state). This rare book is one of the most comprehensive ever published on the subject and is a collector’s item in itself.
Oversize / heavy 9.2 in. x 12.2 in. color-imprinted hardback in very good condition. 256 pages.
Free media mail shipping and handling for deliveries within the 48 United States. International customers please contact us for shipping options and costs. ©2003
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