The History of Slot machines, The Liberty Belle Saloon and Red's 395 club
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2019
- Dale's cousin Paul's friend's grandfather invented the slot machine. Long story? Naw.. Just over 10 minutes! OH and we got pulled over by a cop who showed us where to get some good grub.
We start at Red's 395 club in Carson City to check out their steam roller and grab a burger and a beer. Then on to the Liberty Belle Saloon in Reno to see the very very first slot machine. And a bunch of other 19th century slots. And lots of history about slots and earthquakes.
From the web:
St. Patrick’s Day, 2006. A late winter
snowstorm is falling and at
Reno’s forty-seven year old Liberty
Belle Saloon it is the final day of
business. More than just a bar and
restaurant, the Liberty Belle is a Reno
icon. Many of Reno’s residents don’t
know it any other way. It has always
been there, on South Virginia Street,
the familiar barn-like structure with
the surreys and buckboards on the
roof. It has a warm and friendly
place with owners Frank and
Marshall Fey and their longtime
employees serving beef, beer, and
booze. You could always count on it.
During my years in Reno I spent
many hours there, often closing the
place up at night. When I learned of
its impending demise, I was devastated.
It was like a second home.
The Feys opened the place in
1958, renaming a previous bar that
had been called The Little Red Barn.
In those days, it was out in the sticks,
far from downtown Reno. Even the
police wouldn’t answer a call from
there. The brothers’ assets were few,
but they capitalized on the fact that
Last Call at the Liberty Belle Saloon
by Phil Jensen
their grandfather Charlie had invented
the modern day three-reel slot
machine in San Francisco in 1895.
He called it The Liberty Bell, and
one of them was put on display in the
bar.
Over the years, guns, posters,
antique slots, and other items
were added. There were
always a variety of old
machines licensed for play,
and I got a big kick out of
playing them. When you
bought a roll
of coins, Marshall
usually reminded
you that you were
playing at the
Liberal-T-Belle!
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Thanks again for the history lesson I swear you have the best channel on RUclips
Yepper, A great bit of California/Nevada history "Hither to and unknown" yet if one has ever been to Reno or Carson City back in the late fifties or early sixties this place was in that bit of brain that remembers jumbled memories from their childhood. Stay well. Greg and Jeanne.
HI!!! Paul lived with his mother in an old "cat house" (They had a dog, not a cat but...) But the place suited them. The top floor was a casino. Where Paul kept his antique slots and gaming tables. Even a full sized roulette table Ca 1880. And a small bar. The second floor was rooms. like 5 of them. So when we visited we each got our own room!! Paul had one of those rooms. The ground floor was mostly open with an "apartment" for the madame. Helen lived there. And a huge bar in the big room. With a huge Seaburg nickelodeon. Helen would get up about 5 pm and hit her personal bar. Screwdrivers because she said she needed vitamins. Then when Paul got off work we would go out. Usually like 10 pm. Then up all night drinking and playing the slots in Paul's collection. Yup. Just the normal Mormon family. Or not. So how did I turn out so "normal"? Explains a lot I think.
Well done, folks. A great step back to a more sane time and, of course, your bucket load of information and history. I'll just have to keep coming back for more! Dale,hope you are feeling better.
Charles looks like a nice guy. He def made lots of people extra money and improved society!
In the end he was a grump. According to his grandson. But damn. What a family!
Slot machines are cool. The Liberty Belle Saloon looked fun. 395 club looks like a neat place.
I had a club chief. Stolen. Hum... That happens a lot to us. OR well id did 15 years ago. Oddly when you stop hanging with some people, that problem goes away.
I would have loved both places. The 365 looks like soooo much fun and I would go even if the food wasn't great. I'll be hoping for the best for you tomorrow and a painless easy recovery. Don't get caught chasing the nurses ( Just kidding!).
Well I have a new hip. Thank goodness for pain medications. I knew it would be a painful experience I guess you could say I was looking forward to that and I am not disappointed!
That thing, is a salesman's sample of a stationary grain thresher. The machines themselves are very large and those smaller ones allowed salesmen to show the advantages of their thresher over a competitors. The threshing and reaping operations were joined together in today's combine.
john andruch that explains a lot!! Because I though it was “steam punk” as it shows no ware even though it’s really beat up. Thanks!!
Wow I live in Sacramento and missed you guys😱 Well another good vid Thanks for the information 👍😁
Thresher, I believe the thing on the wall but not sure. Thanks again for sharing! Hope y’all are well and doing good!
Yep, I think you are right. I know what it isn't and isn't a Henway because we all know that a hen weighs about two pounds.
Hi. Yup So far so good. But I' not going till Tuesday. Gezzzzz. Here we go!!!
Came down here to say the same, it is a thresher.
Here in Ohio they were called Thrashing Machines and ran via long belts attached to steam-powered tractors.
Now I want to visit the 395 Club. I've never been to Reno but I will make a point to check it out if I am ever there.
Do make the journey! So much to see around the Reno area!
another good show
As always entertaining.
Thx again
I believe the contraption is a small thresher. The blower is in the circular box behind the back wheel. The chaff is blown out the spout which is stored over the unit and is able to be rotated and the wheel on the back of it adjusts the elevation of the spout. I am a little more familiar with the little bit larger threshing machines which are large box wagons with the machinery inside. These are the predecessors to the combines now.
great video liked
I was a friend of Paul 'Hop' when he had a store in Midvale. Before that he and his mother had a drive inn. I stayed with him one night on Virginia Street when he moved to Reno. I am a slot machine hobbyist and there were a few things about the history that you got wrong . But still a wonderful piece I treasure the correspondence I have Between me and the Fey Brothers
Wow! So you were friends with paul?!!! Wow! My uncle harry and he bumped around together in the army and later in salt lake. They looked so much alike they told people they were brothers.
Very cool info as usual. Thank you for sharing, pretty interesting history.
Hi
We are sort of laid up. So I'm fishing and mining my old footage for stuff to use while we recover from playing the game "operation". ARUG! None the less, fun old stories I hope.
@@ToyManTelevision I know the feeling. Just had double hernia surgery mid Sept., shoulder surgery in 2 weeks an prostate treatments after that. Get well soon friend. Always enjoy ur twos videos, perfect couple.
I grew up in Reno & have been to both places many times. The Little Waldorf on North Virginia st. is also decorated like Red's 395. I think it's the same owner.
Gotta go see!! Thanks.
Watching from belfast great vid sir 😅
Awesome! Thank you! Wow. We’d love to see that place.
It's a full size corn shredder. Corn bundles were cut apart and the corn stalkers were put into the right end and the shredder separate the corn ear and cut up the stalk into fodder and was blown out the long tube onto a pile or into the the barn.
Don Hopf cool! Many people tossing in on this. Have you seen this used? Film? Curious
@@ToyManTelevision Here's a video. ruclips.net/video/K3EyNWQZ2dA/видео.html
Excellent video. Not sure why the algorithm isn’t promoting it. Such a shame.
Really. Sigh. If a said something hateful I’m sure it would be prompted.
Interesting video. Some historical falsehoods though. For instance it was Mills, not Fey, that first added the gum dispenser and fruit symbols.
I visited the Liberty Belle in 1995, got to meet Marshall Fey and he signed my copy of his book. A real keepsake.
Liberty Bell build looks like the Walthers Hardwood Furniture Company
So many of those buildings!! "brick curtain". Cool old buildings.
That was interesting..
Right??? Fun memories for me…
I remember passing this place many times altho' I never went into the restaurant. Now I'm sorry I didn't. What caught my eye were the horse drawn vehicles on the roof. I drive horses for a hobby and have done minor restorations on a few carriages in my time. It always bugged me to see the ones on the Liberty Belle's roof being exposed to the weather like that as it's very bad for the wood and metal components. Hopefully they found new homes with owners that restored or at least preserved the more interesting and unusual pieces. Undoubtedly many of them were of local origin.
harpy queen yup. Marshall didn’t take care of things. Most of the slots were in the attic covered with dirt. And the bar was really run down. I can’t imagine how well it would have done if it were presented right. I mean a slot machine collection in Reno? Really?
His name was FEY, NOT FRY!!!
the 'thing' looks like a silage blower
I was thinking it was an early Shredded Wheat machine....
Actually, there's one thing that's very strange about the Bell-Fruit company: we have no evidence that the fruit gum actually existed! The only thing they seemed to manufacture was the machinery that dispensed it. A lot of people believe vendors just used wrigleys in their machines due to that.
Hum… don’t know but they did market it.
@@ToyManTelevision are there any examples of the gum you can find?
Numerous times throughout the video Marshall Fey' was mispronounced as FRY. The man's grandfather invented the slot machine. He deserves to have his name pronounced correctly.
Never boring, always interesting. A part of Americana. You also explained the origin of the symbols for slot machines. Guess the stuff at Knotts Berry Farm was acquired with the same thought (nothing to do with gambling.. I also remember being a kid waiting for my parents to finish gambling in a Reno casino (minors were not permitted and parking your kids outside was not seen as abnormal or abusive..
Oh by the way were you driving the Blue Mustang when you had your interaction with the member of the police force? They do seem to like to pull Mustang owners over to talk to us. Will have to add the 395 Club to the list of "Must Dos in California."
HI
Nope. Red Mustang. Brand new (to us) And first trip out. And (OOPS) still had Glynn's plates on it. Anyway, cop sees up out at 11 PM in THAT car, and pulls us over because Im not staying in my lane. In the rain. At night. WHAT LANE? I dont see no stinking lines on the road! Anyway when the cop sees US (60s) in the car instead of two 20 year olds dragging the street, hes suddenly really nice. Didn't even run the california plates. (Sigh) And we told him we were looking for a restaurant that was open at almost midnight.
I swear Mustang are equipped with signs visible to police to pull us over for a conversation. My son says I go from one side of the lane to the other. Then if I am stopped, we’ll it is a long story. Good episode. Never know what I will see.
The new mustang will not have that problem. An electric SUV that looks like every other SUV. And makes no sound. (sigh) MUSTANG????
@@ToyManTelevision We dropped our Explorer SUV off at the dealership (it eats batteries) I drove the Mustang and she frequently complained about how loud the engine was. Dark Grey GT with 4.6 L V8, and manual 5 speed transmission. Still runs nice for her age. This was a hand me down from my youngest son. I know what you mean about the hybrids. Last business trip I got a Ford Escape Hybrid. Could tell if the motor (note I didn't say engine) was running or not.
@@ToyManTelevision Red is even more likely to get picked on.
So can you please tell me where is the first prototype located? I would like to go visit.
They sold everything but I think the family kept the prototype. Not sure.
@@ToyManTelevision I see, I would like to visit some historic place of slot machine, what would you recommend?
And for me, the “slot machine” inventor actually copied that idea from other machine what do you think?
Another video says that he noticed people use vending machine more.
@@ToyManTelevision But basically at least they try to "evolve" by not "copying it entirely" so can you tell me where to go if I want to visit the place that has the first "prototype of slot machine"? Is it in SF where it's manufactured or the place you said they sold everything already? Or maybe both.
Hi again. Not sure where the Liberty Bell ended up. The entire collection was sold. EXCEPT the Liberty Bell. I assume one of the grandkids has it. But there is a great collection near there. In Virginia City. Only about 25 miles from Reno. I think some of the collection ended up there.
@@ToyManTelevisionHi, you mislead me I went to 395 in Carson City and asked for Liberty Bell Saloon and it’s in Reno but how come in this video around 1:45 you said it’s down the street from 395????
Tresher
So it seems the anti gambling ordnance gummed up the works!
I saw what you did there!!!! My grandfather around a small casino back in the 1930s in Salt Lake City Utah inside the Moose club. But the new laws forced him to put all that stuff away. To my delight he brought one of the nickel slot machines home for home use and I used to get to play it as a kid.
@@ToyManTelevision If you had played your cards right, or perhaps I should say your slots right, you could have had a mob movie made about you running a casino! : )
That is a very cool story and thanks for sharing it. I love places like the two you showed on this episode. Thanks again.