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Re: This is what Hawaii's looked like...

Yes, that's one of the bingo machines. There were lots of variations. I know they were in bars elsewhere and often the bartender would pay you for your accumulated games if you'd played a long time.

UNITED STATES v. KORPAN, 354 U.S. 271 (1957) finally designated them as "games of chance" with the attendant federal tax on them and that got rid of most of the machines in bars outside Nevada.

In fact, I got addicted to them in Mississippi where I was working one summer during college. Spent 3 months trying to map oil fields by drilling holes in the ground, detonating explosives, and feeding the echos from dozens of seismometers to kludgy electronics in an old truck. As I recall we used monster floppy disks about 2 feet in diameter. There were no portable computers in the 50's. (No riverboat gambling either)

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Pam G. Style Story Time! vbg
Re: Pam G. Style Story Time! vbg
Very Cool, Thanks Don!
Re: Pam G. Style Story Time! vbg
Is that your store in the picture?
This is what Hawaii's looked like...
Re: This is what Hawaii's looked like...
I Once Owned This One
A Real Early Gambling Pinball
Man Barry, Those are COOL!
Re: Man Barry, Those are COOL!
KEWL !
Re: Pam G. Style Story Time! vbg
Definitely Mark E. style vbg

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