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Coin-operated vendors did not require their owner-operator to be present for every sale. This image was posted on January 19, 2018. #coinoperated #theautomaticage #coinop #vintage #antique #matches #slotmachine #slotmachines #vendingmachine

Pinball games trace their origins to bagatelle, a fashionable eighteenth-century French table game. This image was posted on January 16, 2018. #coinoperated #theautomaticage #coinop #vintage #antique #gamemachines #slotmachine #slotmachines #bagatelle #pinball #games #tablegame

Prior to Prohibition and the Volstead Act of 1919, gambling was a mainstay of the saloon. This image was posted on January 08, 2018. #coinoperated #theautomaticage #coinop #vintage #antique #gamemachines #slotmachine #slotmachines

Introduced in the late 1800s, coin-operated electric shock machines operated alongside coin-controlled vending machines, scales, and strength testers. This image was posted on December 21, 2017. #coinoperated #theautomaticage #coinop #vintage #antique #gamemachines #slotmachine #slotmachines #electricshock #electricityislife

Coin-operated machines combined mechanical novelty and automated convenience. This image was posted on December 15, 2017. #coinoperated #theautomaticage #coinop #vintage #antique #gamemachines #slotmachine #slotmachines

Although single-lever slot machines were referred to as “one-armed bandits” as early as the 1930s, the term became more literal in the late 1940s when saloons and casinos featured the gambling devices in the bodies of elaborately carved characters to attract the attention of patrons. This image was posted on March 28, 2017. #onearmedbandit #frankpolk #sculptures #basswood #bronze #mechanicalage #saloons #slotmachine

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