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How Cool is that!!!
Here’s the
follow-up to my first questions:
Spitten
Jerry is my nickname in New Orleans and Las Vegas my lic. plates had
“Saliva” on them. In Vegas, Don Laughlin owns the Riverside Hotel and
casino. He started the city of Laughlin Nevada.
Thanks,
Spitter.
PS_If I
knew how to work my scanner I’d send you a picture of my Circus Queen.
Thanks, Spit……
Here’s the
follow-up to my second set of questions:
Yes, also South Carolina that’s Biloxi,
Charleston, New Orleans, Baton Rouge
and Shreveport. In Las Vegas
the entire city my picture up in evey place that had pins. I have a payout
hopper on my machine. I also wanted to ask you about building a web site
for gambling info for free I’ve been in that business my whole life 39
years experience. There is almost nothing about all forms of gaming I
don’t know and that is the truth.
Thanks Danny.
Spitter
LOL…….I love
that!
Now the Times
Picayune is New Orlean’s main newspaper and now that I see this, I can
clealry imagine (see) their infatuation with gambling and other neferious
actitives of the day…….
Organized crime and everything
associated with it, and this goes hand-in-hand with Don Hooker’s reference
to how they use to send the new machines down south (to Texas, New Orleans,
and Mexcio) to have them tried out………
~ While we wait on some follow-up pictures
from Spit ~
Let’s go ahead and look at the
“Screen Position E” bingo card form one of the Magic Screen games, showing
us the 13, 16, 21 in green!
Now according to Phil Hooper’s
site, Section Scoring functioned like this:
Unlike in-line scoring, section scoring determined
winners by balls being in the same colored pattern on the card, and most
importantly, the numbers did not need to be adjacent to win.
One of the many straight-forward explanations from the Bingo King, and also
on his site are links to Chris Dade’s handy-work: Repro Backglass
Silkscreens:
Very pretty!
Now 120 quarters in 1981 is a
pretty good haul; especially if you could hit that two or three times a
night……..
Now imagine the other stories Jerry
knows: Good enough to be black listed, band from playing in three states,
and a cool enough player and dude to know Don Laughlin well enough for him
to give you a machine……..That Rock’s!
I hope to hear more and I hope Jerry starts a website!!!
Some Don Laughlin Trivia from
Wikipedia:
Don Laughlin (b.
1931) is a gaming entrepreneur, hotelier and rancher for whom the town of Laughlin, Nevada
is named.
A native of Owatonna, Minnesota,
Laughlin worked winters during his youth as a fur trapper. He took the
profits and used them to purchase slot machines for installation in hunting
lodges. Since gambling in Minnesota
was illegal, Laughlin's school principal gave him the ultimatum of either
dropping out of the gambling trade or dropping out of school. Laughlin
chose the latter.
~ You’ve got to love this stuff ~
~ Both stories are a wonderful part
of America’s history ~
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