Craigslist has listings for slot machine in for sale by owner in the Portland, OR area. 1949 Jennings Sun Chief Light Up Slot Machine-Working-Near Mint!L@@K. Antique Bally Nickel Slot Machine $450. Antique Jennings Sun Chief1949-64 1$ Dollar Slot Machine. Best You May Ever See. This is a superb listing, I'm proud to offer it for sale. I have completely enjoyed it in our home. It's in pristine restored condition. Jennings Sun Chief 1 Dollar Slot Machine in perfect working condition and restored by some extremely skilled people.
Up for auction is a vintage hard to find 1937 Jennings Big Star Chief slot machine. This model seems to be pretty hard to find. It will need some work as seen in the pictures. I can only point out the obvious stuff as I’m not an expert with these machines. It is missing the lower front glass. It is also missing the lock on the back cover. Back cover and back upper are completely detached missing the screws. The machine doesn’t operate when pulling the handle. I do here pressure in the lower cylinder when pulling the handle. I’m not sure what it will need. Will need a cash box. You’re welcome to stop by and look at it if you’re in the southern California area. I will have to sell the machine AS IS.
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Due to laws regulating the sale of antique slot machines, I, as the seller, won’t accept bids from members in the states of Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Bids from members residing in any of these states will be cancelled. Buy It Now transactions with buyers residing in these states will be considered void.
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Danny Ocean Getting Ready To Rob A Casino Full Of Jennings Sun Chief Machines!
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Recently we ran across a great vintage CBS Television pressrelease photo for the original Ocean’s 11 movie with Frank Sinatra. What makesthis photo so cool is that he is standing in front of what appears to be theFlamingo casino with a whole slew of Jennings Sun Chief light-up slot machines!
The original Ocean’s 11 movie has some great scenes of thecasino’s and their interiors. It’s actually fairly hard to find vintage interiorphotographs of Las Vegas casinos. The reason being is the same as it is today,the casinos don’t want people taking photographs inside the casino floor forsecurity reasons.
During the 1950’s and early 1960’s the Jennings Sun Chiefwas the primary type of machine used in the casinos. Jennings made a number ofsub-models of the Sun Chief and would install different color light panels onthe lower front as well. These panels would come in red, green, orange, clearand even blue.
The top sign was also customized by the casino’s to give themachines a more unique appearance to that specific location. While not common,these original casino’s Jennings Sun Chief signs can still be found on occasionfrom places like the Flamingo, The Sands, Desert Inn, Riviera, Sahara and Hacienda.
A super rare example is the double Jennings slot machinesitting to the left of Frank. These machines were used on the end caps of abank of machines. Also rarely found today is the extra top sign mounted to someJennings machines. These signs would simply add a little more pizazz and weresometimes lighted. If you find a Sun Chief with holes plugged up at the verytop, there is a good chance a sign like the one just behind Frank’s left shoulderwas mounted to it.
As a full time antique slot machine dealer it’s sometimeseasy to forget that these machines originally operated in some fantasticlocations around the world. In most cases the history of the machine is lost,but on occasion a machine will turn up with just enough clues to let us knowwhere it came from and possibly who could have played it – like Danny Oceanhimself!
