More Automatic Pleasures

Contents

• The Automatic Age
• Punch and the Slot Machine
• The Earliest Exhibitions
• Archaeology of the Slot Machine
• The Treasure of the 1906 Holocaust
• The Golden Age of the Slot Machine 1909–39
• John Barleycorn’s Last Will and Testament
• Ban Those Gambling Machines!
• Ribs Heal in Time, Broken Castings Never!
• Disguise
• I never heard of anyone being forced to have fun!
• Innovation and Design
• The Bleak Years
• World’s Fair Articles
• Ahrens
• Arcades
• Bally–Moloney
• Barrons
• Boland
• Bolland
• Brenner
• British American Novelty Company–Montague
• Bryan
• Burrows
• Caille Brothers
• Essex Automatic Manufacturing Company–Smith
• Everitt
• Exhibit Supply Co–Meyer
• Genco & Chicago Coin–Gensburg
• Gottlieb
• Groetchen
• Haydon and Urry
• Heron
• Hooper
• O.D. Jennings
• Mason
• Mills Novelty Company
• Looking back at the birth of the Mills Company
• How wise Herbert Mills capitalised on his owl
• Aggressive marketing policy ensured success
• An all-embracing policy from Herbert
• St Louis Show opened new operation
• 1904 Mills make music fit for a king
• Mills move into cinema but vending lines still thrive
• Arch-demon of the automatics industry is no ordinary machine
• 1933: Machine sales top million mark despite world recession
• How Herbert Mills jumped on the jukebox bandwagon
• How the giant was brought to its knees
• Mutoscope
• New Polyphon Supply Co
• Pace
• Post War Boom
• Rockola
• Ruffler and Walker
• Samson Novelty Company–Holloway
• Scott-Adickes
• Seeburg
• Shefras
• Streets
• Thompson
• Trade shows
• Watling
• Williams
• Wurlitzer
• Collections
• Japan