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“Who hasn't dropped a nickel in the slot of those seductive little machines to be found almost any place where men most do congregate?...They are located in nearly all the saloons and cigar-stores in the City, eating up nickels as fast as the ‘tiger’ (card game) can eat up dollars.” San Francisco Call, February 2, 1896. Our newest exhibition, "#GamesofChance: Gambling Devices of the Mechanical Age", opens tomorrow, post-security, in Terminal 3. http://bit.ly/GamesofChance
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