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| How's This for a Flashback in Time! |
Slots in
the Mid-Late Eighties
Big carousels with
people in the middle hawking change (see image below). Large bulky nicked-up cabinets
with buckets locked in the bottom. Coin acceptors that tended to jam often.
Mechanical handles that sometimes took a little extra elbow grease to pull.
Spinning reels that occasionally didn't line up properly. Clanging of coins falling into the trays. Change buckets and
dollar-token racks - sometimes stacked and often haphazardly scattered between
and behind machines and on the floor. Moist towelettes to remove the
silver-gray film on your hands from inserting coins for hours on end. Torn paper coin wrappers and foil towelette
wrappers littered seemingly everywhere.
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| Remember those huge carousels staffed by someone hawking change! |
And those monster change carts (pictured
at top of article) that eventually lightened the load for the change people who previously
donned belt-clip coin changers and change aprons with giant pockets full of
rolled nickels and quarters. Remember those days? We do, and we're sure glad those
are "things" of the past . . . along with the heavy lifting, many
staff hours and large rooms of scales and mechanical coin counters and wrappers
necessary to deal with those buckets of coin. We like today's set-up so much
better and anxiously await our casino reopening and welcoming back all of our
friends!
So When Are
We Gonna Open?
We sure wish we
could give you an exact date but we won't know until the State of Nevada gives
us the go-ahead. Same applies to Sharkey's, Bodines and SlotWorld. Meanwhile,
we are taking the health and safety steps sent to us by the Nevada Gaming Control
Board to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. We'll be ready!
Concert
News
Charlie Daniels Band: We received word last week from the Charlie Daniels
Band tour that they have postponed from late June of this year to 2021. All who
purchased tickets for the 2020 concert have been information to the email
address used during the ticket purchase process. If you purchased tickets,
please check your email. The Charlie Daniels Band has rebooked their TJ's
Corral concert for June of 2021 and we'll have more details when we get through
the 2020 season.
Tanya Tucker: the West Coast stops on the 2020 Tanya Tucker tour
have been postponed and we sent information to those who purchased tickets. As they
say, Stay Tuned!”
LOCASH, Clay Walker, Lee Brice, Trace Atkins: at this point, we're planning on these concerts
proceeding. If anything changes, we will again send information to those who
have purchased tickets and also provide information on this page.
Stay Safe, Be Well!
