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This Page Last Updated 9-10-2010

My friend Jerry Kaczmerak recently found me on Facebook and I am glad, since it’s been a couple years since we were in contact with one another _ I’ve really missed Jerry, he makes me smile! _ Now Facebook opens the world a bit and hooking up with Spitter this time, bought me in touch with Lisa too, who just happens to be able to share a bit more on Spit’s colorful history with the Bingos.

I copied Lisa on my first page on Jerry and she was kind enough to write back with this memory:

Lisa September 6, 2010 at 10:38am

Re: Hi Lisa - JerryK update:

Thanks for sharing Danny. It brought back fond memories of Spitter going out on the graveyard shift and playing pinball all night long and bringing home buckets full of coins. It was not only fun money but paid our bills as well. Those were the good ole dayz.
LISA

I popped Lisa a response with one of the stories Spit shared with me one day and she was nice enough to respond in kind:

Lisa September 6, 2010 at 12:30pm

Re: Hi Lisa - JerryK update:

Indeed. He is too funny. I once remember I was angry about something he had done and he came with a new Cadillac for me and trunk full of nickels and said go shopping. Of course being the very spoiled, ungrateful brat that I was at the time said something about me paying in nickels and why didn't he cash them out. He didn't say a word, just got in my new Caddy and didn’t come home for 3 days. No money but I still had my new caddy. LOL I learned to keep my mouth shut.

Sorry Lisa!___I know this last email is a bit personal, but it really helps tell a bit of the story behind one of the greatest all time players and money-makers on the bingos – Spit’s like my buddy Darryl who constantly makes these games payout!

Spit was a known player from Vegas to Orleans! Known by the owner/operators, by the reporters, by the players, by the clubs, and by the syndicate. Jerry’s past is just as colorful as the bingos: He was a pitboss in Vegas, worked for Don Laughlin, and worked for Carlos "The Little Man" Marcello who owned Lucky Coin Amusements in New Orleans, who supplied many of the Nevada bingos _ Spit made the Rounds!

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……Angus Lind from the New Orleans Times-Picayune……

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Jerry wrote:
"beginning of the end in new orleans, nardy and i were coming back from biloxi in the early 70s, nardy played the machines very well he was my back up when i was tired, we played for days at a time, black mollies or t20s to stay up. we stopped at the gentilly rest. and bar on hwy 90, they had a sign win these prizes for games, we found out no more paying off just prizes, nardy was playing very well that day we won everything they had from suitcases to every kitchen appliance. they had an orient and a venice, 4 star paid 900 replays, 1,6,16,17. this was the only machine with this feature. we headed home with our car full of items and the knowledge we had to move to vegas for good, before then i’d drive back and forth from new orleans to vegas every few mo.s, baton rouge had the loosest machines because of all the truck driver play, and all the truck stops on hwy 90.your pal spit"

Jerry wrote:
"hi danny, see you had a write up about the way the nickels were sold and you were basically right, but in biloxi the sold the nickels in 10 dollar bags yea paper bags, boogey and i couldn’t believe it because we were always buying nickels and putting them in the car to make the owners think we were losing, that worked for years until i beat a machine in baton rouge for 2 hundred dollars 800 quarters on a roller derby, they didn’t have enough to pay me so they opened up the machine to get money out and there was 14 dollars in it. in vegas they had 2 dollar rolls of nickels and 5 dollar rolls of nickels, down south when they put in all 20-holers everywhere but miss. you’d put in a quarter and get one play and four nickels would go on the machines, then we bought rolls of quarters for 10 bucks. my car trunk was always full of bags or rolls of nickels or quarters, this went on for years, your pal spitter "

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I’ve got a copy of Spit’s tax-turns and as near as I can tell he made some $16,000 in the late 60s playing these games _ laugh _ Once I finish figuring them out, I’ll share the detail with you………

~ For a few years there _ This was Spit’s idea of a job _ Laugh! ~

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