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re: Why exactly was Pinball banned in NYC for over 30 years?
Posted on 4/3/16 at 7:35 pm to Captain Lafitte
Posted on 4/3/16 at 7:35 pm to Captain Lafitte
I saw that also. Pretty sure they thought pinball machines were detrimental to the utes of America.
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Posted on 4/3/16 at 7:37 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Game of chance seen as an alternate form of gambling. Pretty intensely moronic. Gives you an idea how inane some of our laws are, and the simple mindedness of people willing to blindly follow them.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 7:42 pm to alajones
Good one. I saw it probably about two months ago. I can't remember if it was a repeat episode that I saw it. I've slipped up on keeping up with the show.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 8:17 pm to Captain Lafitte
Special When Lit, is a good documentary on pinball
Posted on 4/3/16 at 8:58 pm to OKTiger83
The old style pinball did not have flippers. The goal was to get the ball to land in the correct holes so as to match the screen that showed the winning holes. It had a very delicate tilt mechanism. The odds built up after several losses.
There was a way to cheat it after the odds built up. The moldings around the glass were wood. If you had a loose molding, you could remove it, slide out the glass and then drop the balls into the winning holes. You did this in cooperation with the bartender. He would pay the win out of the cash register and split the cash with you.
That is how I got through my first semester at USL back in 1967. Eventually they replace the wood moldings with metal and that was it for free money.
The dangerous part was that the machines were owned by the Marcello family out of New Orleans.
These machines were all over the place in Louisiana during the fifties and early sixties.
There was a way to cheat it after the odds built up. The moldings around the glass were wood. If you had a loose molding, you could remove it, slide out the glass and then drop the balls into the winning holes. You did this in cooperation with the bartender. He would pay the win out of the cash register and split the cash with you.
That is how I got through my first semester at USL back in 1967. Eventually they replace the wood moldings with metal and that was it for free money.
The dangerous part was that the machines were owned by the Marcello family out of New Orleans.
These machines were all over the place in Louisiana during the fifties and early sixties.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 9:04 pm to Purplehaze
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These machines were all over the place in Louisiana during the fifties and early sixties
There were numerous machines in all the bars around LSU. Manager of one told me he made all his overhead off the machines. Once watched a fraternity brother lose his wife's entire paycheck on the machines in one afternoon.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 11:14 pm to Purplehaze
My grandfather used to tell me they had a few of these at Metairie Country Club back then. Jefferson Parish decided to crack down on the machines parish-wide. My grandfather's buddies got nervous and took them for a boat ride and dumped them into Lake Ponchartrain.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 11:43 pm to Cracker
Yep, I played many of the gambling types. Actually won money in college.
Posted on 4/3/16 at 11:47 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
NYC banned Big Gulps. Nothing should come as a surprise for the authoritarian capital of the US.
Posted on 4/4/16 at 2:56 am to Hugo Stiglitz
Posted on 4/4/16 at 3:52 am to Peazey
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Pretty sure they thought pinball machines were detrimental to the utes of America.
what's a ute?
Posted on 4/4/16 at 6:00 am to Captain Lafitte
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LaGuardia was an a-hole.
His parents named him after an airport, of course he grew up to be an a-hole.
Posted on 4/4/16 at 7:12 am to MSTiger33
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Where can I find the source pic? I am thinking of framing a bunch of b&w photos of old NYC in my new place.
There's a facebook group called "Manhattan Before 1990".
Some great submissions and discussions on old photographs, neighborhoods and NY history. You could probably find some interesting work in that group.
Posted on 4/4/16 at 7:33 am to Hugo Stiglitz
Gambling.
Then some pinball wizard put on a show in Times Square or something and showed its a skill, not luck to be good.
Then some pinball wizard put on a show in Times Square or something and showed its a skill, not luck to be good.
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