California Town That Banned Pinball 80 Years Ago Will Finally Legalize It

[djv8ga]

Check out Oakland lifting the pinball ban. They finally figured out that it's the idiots in Kalifornia causing crime, not the pinball machines.

http://time.com/2912494/california-t...y-legalize-it/

[bobabode]

Nice to know that we aren't all leftist hippie ne'er do wells here in Cali like you've opined so many times.

Slow day on the 'Open Border'?

[4-2-7]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Nice to know that we aren't all leftist hippie ne'er do wells here in Cali like you've opined so many times.

Slow day on the 'Open Border'?

Im here.

[Pio1980]

Was a time when organised crime controlled gaming machines and related devices like juke boxes, punch boards and such in many localities. Banning them was intended to exclude their influence on local politics and quality of life, according to the thinking of the times.
Otherwise, ref the pool hall routine from The Music Man.

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[CarlV]

From your article:

Pinball machines (sans flippers — a later invention) were manufactured in the 1930s, installed in bars and called “pay-outs,” because that’s what they did, delivering cash to lucky players a bit like someone hitting the jackpot after pulling the handle on a slot machine. That’s all you did at the time: pull the plunger and cross your fingers. If you won, you’d collect your winnings from whomever ran the establishment. And that slot machine-like angle was enough to worry politicians and get pinball banned across the country.

Edit: For the AZ'ers, yes 80 years ago it was indeed illegal gambling. We now return you to Barbie and Ken on Fox Snooze.

Originally Posted by bobabode

Nice to know that we aren't all leftist hippie ne'er do wells here in Cali like you've opined so many times.

Slow day on the 'Open Border'?

Cali?


Carl

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Was a time when organised crime controlled gaming machines and related devices like juke boxes, punch boards and such in many localities. Banning them was intended to exclude their influence on local politics and quality of life, according to the thinking of the times.
Otherwise, ref the pool hall routine from The Music Man.

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Then attack organized crime directly.

Once organized crime controlled garbage collection in New York city.
The mayor, Giuliani, (I did not like the guy but he was effective against the mob) ran them out of the business.

If you had a business place in the city the mob would drop a container in front of it and then intimidate you to use it.

The mayor also ran them out of the fish market.

[Pio1980]

I doubt most localities had the resources to directly go after crime syndicates themselves.

Giuliani's tactics in cleaning up the city were effective but disturbingly tyrannical in light of the BOR, seemingly ignoring due process. It ended with his departure, New Yorkers are no doubt happy with the results but the process was suspect imo.

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[Wasillaguy]

Pinball was doomed anyway. Nobody could compete with the guy who plays by sense of smell.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

Pinball was doomed anyway. Nobody could compete with the guy who plays by sense of smell.

So put in your earplugs, put on your eye shades, and you know where to put the cork.

I do remember a baseball pinball game in the dorm that we could keep going for hours, and sometimes days at a time.

Regards,

D-Ray

[Rajoo]

Actually Pinball machines would trip the tilt due to periodic quakes and tremors that we have here. So they were banned for safety reasons. Now Stanford has come up with an isolation system so these machines are seismic proof. Pinball Wizard lives on.