Something else totally useless but kind of curious.
From the same OLCC document in the previous post:
"The Oregon Liquor Control Comission opened its first liquor stores in February 1934 at the end of Prohibition, and 70 years later, there are 242 stores around the state - three inside supermarkets.That's right, things were different in the 1930's. A pinball machine that pays out? Damn, I was born too late.
Many liquor stores sell lottery tickets and restaurants and bars offer video poker and a wide variety of games and entertainment. But it was a different time in the 1930s.
For instance, OLCC archives show that when the McMinnville Elks Lodge applied for a liquor license in 1938, they listed closing time as 1 a.m. They indicated that cards, pool and billiards would be played on the premesis. Under entertainment they listed radio and phonograph, and for gambling devices, pinball machines. They listed the restaurant equipment value at $500."

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