Visit https://www.totalav.com/nerd70 to get 70% off sponsor TotalAV Today! ~ Welcome to a video about the sea, a video about loss, a video about slot machines, a video about pinball machines. This is a historical look at gambling machines, the sea, pinball and the great pinball ban in America. It's journey, just make sure you have a lifeboat.

This video was scripted and edited by @octaviusking

Alternative Titles:
Why were Pinball machines banned in America?
Why Slot Machines are under the sea
America Pinball Ban

00:00-23:55 Pinball!
23:55-24:50 TotalAV
24:50-29:10 More Pinball!

🔗Video Links🔗
EARLY PINBALL GAME https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball...
FORTUNA GAME AT MEDIA MUSEUM - WIKIMEDIA COMMONS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
IMPROVEMENT TO BAGATELLE BALLS SHOOTER PATENT https://patents.google.com/patent/US1...
BAFFLE BALL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baffle_...
WHIFFLE BALL AD https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=35...
Bolo Board https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=340
Stevo-ball https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2375
Priscilla Dean in Outside The Law 1920 film https://archive.org/details/OutsideTh...
Chicago in 1936 https://archive.org/details/0994_Chic...
   • New York City Mayor LaGuardia Dumps S...   LaGuardia smashing up slot machines
https://pinball.fandom.com/wiki/Roger... Roger Sharpe showing councillors the game
https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=13... Baffle Ball - IPDB
https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=12... Humpty Dumpty board -IPDB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagatel... BAGATELLE BOARD - WIKIMEDIA
https://archive.org/details/silent-ep... Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle - ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/NewsOfThe... - News of the Day 1937
https://ia800902.us.archive.org/21/it... St Paul police detectives
https://archive.org/details/Gamblingw... Gambling with Souls film 1936
https://www.loc.gov/item/00694394/ New York subway in 1905
https://www.replaymag.com/roger-sharp... Roger Sharpe demonstrating (photo from Replay magazine)
https://picryl.com/media/mayor-la-gua... LaGuardia in 1937
https://picryl.com/media/playing-the-... 1941 pinball being played in Pennsylvania

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