Antique Slot Machine

Antique Slot Machine

There are a few antique slot machine on display in some of the older casinos in downtown Las Vegas. These slot machines were entirely mechanical with all moving parts. There were no computers and no video display screens in an antique slot machine when slot machines were first introduced in Las Vegas. It is interesting to look at these antique slot machine and compare a antique slot machine to today's sophisticated computer driven machines.

An antique slot machine typically took one to three coins and you always needed to pull a handle to start the wheels spinning after you had dropped in your coins. At the Riverside casino in Laughlin, you can purchase an antique slot machine in their antique slot machine store. They have approximately 20 to 30 antique slot machine on display at any given time.

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There are several web sites were you can actually purchase an old antique slot machine for your personal use or display it along with other antiques that you may collect from time to time. These antique slot machine look great in someone's basement family room beside your personal bar or pool table. This antique slot machine are a real conversational piece especially if they still work. They say that Vegas was founded by the mob and run for many years by them. They came from New York and also from Chicago to Vegas to start a new revenue source and launder money earned from other mob endeavors.

Today the casinos are run by multi million dollar corporations and like the antique slot machine that were the cornerstone of the casinos; the mob has been forced to move on to other less regulated activities. The antique slot machine has evolved extensively in the same way that all of Las Vegas has evolved. Just as you would not be able to compare the antique slot machine with today's modern machines, Las Vegas has evolved as well with multi million dollar hotels and casinos.

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