As. Young boy of around 12 I spent summers at my grandma’s home on splash point Rhyl . My older sister had left uni by then but in her gap year she was Ronald Seldon’s Nanny to his kids Gary and Robert and she doubled as a bingo caller money changer in Seldons bingo on Rhyl promenade arcades and I hung around a lot
It’s where I first met Sol Parker a hero who sat near the entrance to his Black Cat arcade (used to be located where it’s HB palace now) and he often chased me and my local mates out as we could fleece the Tooty fruity light up drop in skill big penny machines
The big brittania penny could be spun as it entered the slot and with practice the cherry line was easy to win the plum line also easy to get symbol 1 & 4 also spinning coin meant it almost always lit a symbol and not get to the all lost at the base ..
When I becam an op myself we acquired some on big 10p & small new 1p I kept one of them from the 70s I have near the front door at home … all the parcel deliveries and visitors who are old enough recall these seaside favourites ? They say !
Retired this from Lyon’s holiday camp arcade in the mid 80s as we lost tender to Les Harker for two years and had no space at Sunnyvale , Cambria , or other park arcades and we had 2 of each anyway!
Still enjoy popping the odd penny in but not so easy spinning the smaller coin .. not been emptied in years so prob has thousands of 1p coins in the huge box below?
It’s where I first met Sol Parker a hero who sat near the entrance to his Black Cat arcade (used to be located where it’s HB palace now) and he often chased me and my local mates out as we could fleece the Tooty fruity light up drop in skill big penny machines
The big brittania penny could be spun as it entered the slot and with practice the cherry line was easy to win the plum line also easy to get symbol 1 & 4 also spinning coin meant it almost always lit a symbol and not get to the all lost at the base ..
When I becam an op myself we acquired some on big 10p & small new 1p I kept one of them from the 70s I have near the front door at home … all the parcel deliveries and visitors who are old enough recall these seaside favourites ? They say !
Retired this from Lyon’s holiday camp arcade in the mid 80s as we lost tender to Les Harker for two years and had no space at Sunnyvale , Cambria , or other park arcades and we had 2 of each anyway!
Still enjoy popping the odd penny in but not so easy spinning the smaller coin .. not been emptied in years so prob has thousands of 1p coins in the huge box below?
