[Jukebox-list] Seeburg's promise...

[David Breneman]

--- Wesley Dean <wesleydean at cox.net> wrote:

>     In my area back then, the money was in the gambling pinballs.
> The juke 
> was necessary to 'tie up' a location. When gambling was eliminated,
> a few 
> die hards tried to make it on jukes alone. Very few made it. They
> did not know how change their ways. 

Wow, those machines had been illegal here in Washington since
the 1920s.  An operator I bought a few pinball machines from
in the 80s took me into a "secret room" in his warehouse where
he had three or four "payout" pinball machines made in the
40s.  He said that if the State Gambling Commission knew he
had them they'd be confiscated and he'd get a nasty fine.
Apparently the fact that they were "antiques" didn't count
for much.  


David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com

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