Alas, I'm out of time to look into what happened to them. They were big enough that they apparently had a whole multi-story building that they were proud of. But presumably they blew up in the Great Depression. Most scams are pretty delicate, and collapse easily during downturns.
A good lesson to remember as we see a lot of get-rich-quick offers like cryptocurrencies hoovering up the dumb money while promising financial independence, just like Health-O did back in the day.
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@williampietri that score projection unit is adorable
also, the odds unit is an air dashpot relay?! freaking cool.
@vxo That is an excellent question, but I don't know yet. That thing matches a hole in the top that lets you see the coins recently played. I suspect that was either about letting the operator validate that people weren't putting in slugs or letting the marks see that there was real money to be won.
The payout motor itself is lower down than that, but I haven't had a chance to look at it in detail.
@williampietri I keep also wondering what is referred to as a Variator here.
That's a fun word I don't see used often enough. The only other place I see it commonly used is to refer to the variable "diameter" engine pulley on scooters and ATVs using a rubber belt CVT
I stuck diameter in quotes because it's not the overall diameter, but the diameter of the contact patch with the belt that is varied by having one side of the biconic pulley slide in and out
@williampietri not just #gambling, but illegal #GameFixing by any halfway decent standard, because proper gambling machines have their odds hardwired / hardcoded with a certified RNG system.
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