It is known by many names but most people only remember
this canny machine for what it does to your wallet: It bleeds you and yet tempts
you to go back for more. Designed specifically to rob you of all your hard
earned cash, this machine is said to earn 90 percent of Casino profits. Having
thrown the One Armed Bandit in a negative light, let me say that this cheeky
machine will bring lots of joy and entertainment to your house.
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An old poster used to promote the Mills Slot Machine
The first one built in 1895 by Charles Fey of San Francisco, California. In 1907, Herbert Mills from Chicago produced a slot machine called the Operator Bell. By 1908 lots of "bell" machines were installed in most cigar stores, saloons, bowling alleys, brothels and barber stores.
Sometimes, Slot
Machines even gave out fruit
flavoured chewing gums as winnings. The watermelon, orange and cherry pictures
on the slot reels can attest to that. The BAR
symbol now common in slot machines was derived from an early logo of the
Bell-Fruit Gum Company. The Liberty Bell, another symbolic icon of
America, is a common place on most slot machines to which the reason im
clueless also.
In 1963, Bally developed the first fully electromechanical
slot machine and this led to the end of heydays of the One-Arm- Bandits and the rise of sore thumbs.