haha, fantaboulos story, can we hear about part 2? When the credit huslter was given the holy grail...The bonus slot machine or "varible state" or "wongable" slot , did you participate in the beginning of that era?
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:
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> Ah, the good old days of being a credit hustler are long gone. It was such a caefree lifestyle. It went by a lot of names, slot walkin', slot cruisin', seagullin', silver mining, buffalo hunting, pigeon holin'. The occupation has to be all but dead now with everything being TITO.
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> When it was coins you found abandoned credits on the machines, coins in the treys, coins on the floor, pigeon holes underneath the bartops where quarters that didn't register wound up, even the public coin counters that would spit the dimes to a trough down below where people never looked. Hey, may as well make a finger swipe through all the coin returns in the phone booths too.
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> It was the first trade I learned in Las Vegas when I wound up there
