Originally Posted by Don Perignom View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Originally, the "slot club" was just a tracking system at the cage. You bought in to get quarters (remember, all coin machines then), and you received punch cards that were marked with each $10 coin buy-in (and remember -- $10 then was more like $30-$40 today). It took a long time for the plastic slot cards so ubiquitous today to become standard.
Yes, before my time but I remember reading about such systems. That seems like it would have been hard to police. Buy a bunch of coins, dump them into a bucket, cash out and repeat.

Welcome to my Gold Coast story. You kind of ruined the punchline. If you filled up a punch card, you got a free dinner. I'd run my quarters through once, then put the coins into my trench coat pockets. After the first two days of the "slot club," I had 20-some free dinners. I was actually staying there, so I would go up to my room and dump the coins out of my coat pockets, then go back downstairs and rinse/repeat, as you suggested.

Ah, those were the days.