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Title: pace space ace ??? help Post by: coorslight115 on February 04, 2010, 11:20:41 PM Looking for a manual for one of these? any ideas? I know it is a 1965 but not much else. The following is what I know about the company that made them.
" My guess as to what years these machine were made in, from like 1955 to 1964. I can tell you something about them, Pace sold out in December of 1950 when the federal anti-slot machine law was imminent, ("The Johnson act") with Pace (becoming Ace, then Space) with production moving to Franklin Park, an industrialized suburb of Chicago. In 1958 the new Ace "Pace" machine was introduced where they opened the front of the machine, we call that an "open front machine when describing the type of slot machine", and it was Pace/Ace/space that developed this design and the world followed with there new machines. Information starts to get fuzzy around here as to Alstate. Space owner owner Earl Missler became the the principal stockholder in the newly established Alstate Coin Machine Company located in Henderson Nevada. Primarily an operator of Space machines, Alstate also acted as a distributor, exporter, maintenance center and ultimately a manufacturer of Space products for its Nevada operation's. I think a ton of these ended up going to the U.S. Military Forces overseas. Well, that is what is in my nut shell about the whole thing. Oh, I think the whole thing ended with the company now called Coin Devices Inc., operating from 1964 to 1968 back in Illinois once again." Title: Re: pace space ace ??? help Post by: coorslight115 on February 04, 2010, 11:22:02 PM More pics
Title: Re: pace space ace ??? help Post by: stayouttadabunker on February 04, 2010, 11:57:12 PM It's amazing how that looks so much like an old bally pinball machine.
I hope you get that puppy working nice! Parts must be rare though... Title: Re: pace space ace ??? help Post by: Neonkiss on February 05, 2010, 12:27:20 AM " My guess as to what years these machine were made in, from like 1955 to 1964. I can tell you something about them, Pace sold out in December of 1950 when the federal anti-slot machine law was imminent, ("The Johnson act") with Pace (becoming Ace, then Space) with production moving to Franklin Park, an industrialized suburb of Chicago. In 1958 the new Ace "Pace" machine was introduced where they opened the front of the machine, we call that an "open front machine when describing the type of slot machine", and it was Pace/Ace/space that developed this design and the world followed with there new machines. Information starts to get fuzzy around here as to Alstate. Space owner owner Earl Missler became the the principal stockholder in the newly established Alstate Coin Machine Company located in Henderson Nevada. Primarily an operator of Space machines, Alstate also acted as a distributor, exporter, maintenance center and ultimately a manufacturer of Space products for its Nevada operation's. I think a ton of these ended up going to the U.S. Military Forces overseas. Well, that is what is in my nut shell about the whole thing. Oh, I think the whole thing ended with the company now called Coin Devices Inc., operating from 1964 to 1968 back in Illinois once again." Hello... Calling Op-bell. If anyone can give us a history lesson he's your guy. Title: Re: pace space ace ??? help Post by: coorslight115 on February 05, 2010, 01:11:24 AM Trying to help out a friend, its not mine :60- Wish it was
Title: Re: pace space ace ??? help Post by: Op-Bell on February 08, 2010, 04:23:40 AM I have very little to add to the description above, except to add that Space ended up in Maryland, not Illinois. These machines were a hybrid of Pace mechanisms and Bally electrical parts, but with the old fashioned payout fingers they couldn't compete against Bally and didn't sell well. I believe, though I can't back it up, that Space may have eventually been sold to a Japanese company, since that unique triangular sloping coin entry made a brief reappearance on Japanese machines imported by Gamex in the 1970s.
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