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Every time I see another hot take about how Palm Sunday is a protest (?) and Jesus was there to free the Jews from the Romans (please stop) I’m going to reshare this—sorry!
Red flag to me is the statement that the first Las Vegas casinos were filled with blue screened slot machines. I believe those machines were all mechanical (no screens) until blue screens were installed long afterwards.
Ahh, but the lighting, including the neon. Even the bigger one armed bandits were internally lit; I emptied the coin buckets from many a machine. I worked as a janitor in a casino in the 70s, we had antique 1907 (unlit) slot machines tucked away in the casino basement. My nephew was a slot machine technician, as well.