Bright's Antique Slot Machine Restorations (703) 906-8389 3406 Burgundy Rd Alexandria, VA.
Description: Paces Races, Pace / Evans, 1934 to 1946, the first console slot machine,both Evans and Baker had similar console slot machines. Text by Mike:The player bets on one or more of the seven horses. The player then pushesa button and the horses race. The odds wheel then spins (note after thehorses start the race!). Upon completion of the race, the game pays out ina hidden drawer.
The first games by Pace in 1934 were completely pneumatically driven. There is oneelectric motor that drives the bellows and the rest is air pressure, frommoving the horses, to spinning the odds wheel, to calculating the payout andactually making the payout. The horse movements are controlled by a paperroll similar to those found in a player piano.
In 1946 Evans took over the manufacturing and converted some of thefunctions like odds and payout to electronic functions. The horses werestill driven by the player piano roll and the pneumatics.There is a tiny pinball in the bowels of thegame. When the first horse passes the 3/4 mark, the game kicks the pinballup the table. It bounces around for a bit and as soon as it returns to thebottom, the horse in the lead at that time gets two kicks for every holecompared to the others single. The appearance is one horse suddenly pullingaway and winning.
Restoration is complicated because it is much like having to repair orrestore a nickelodeon or other player piano. The valve box is full ofleather flaps and needs to be shimmed with precision. The bellows need tobe recovered with a special glue. The tubing is a nightmare. The first release in 1934 was black, and the last released by Evans was in 1946. They also made a brown cabinet and the red arrow. The latter versionis probably more collectable.
Very similar to Evans Pacer and Bally'sRay's Track and Evans Races.
1935 Western Electric Piano Company Western Sweep Stakes
This is applied with a silk screen, not a stencil.
This is applied with a silk screen, not a stencil.
1926 Mutoscope by International Mutoscope Reel Co.
Step on the scale and dial your weight if you guess right your penny is returned
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