by 1949 » Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:38 am
Mine must have been black originally It`s black under the two different colors of house paint. The woman told me her dad would paint the stand and the wood on the slot machine to match the walls. Another interesting thing she told me was through her dads job, he was good friends of the cardinals ball club. She stated that a lot of them came to her house when she was young and would party and gamble on this slot machine. The likes of Ernie Banks and others from that era. A little side note; when I took the machine off the stand I noticed some dimes down at the bottom of the stand. So when I got it home I turned it upside down and started shaking, dines just keep coming out from inside the legs and every where. To my surprise I ended up with $10.80 in dimes, 15 of them where silver dimes 4 of them were mercury dimes. Also a silver walking liberty half dollar came rolling out. This leads me to believe that in it`s early years, since it is a Jennings stand that it probably had a 50 cent Jennings on it.