Dave,
Back in the stone age of collecting they had these wonderful strike machines with hoppers. Two, three wins and it would jam, got a lot of visiting time at the machines in those days. Anyway, the Plaza at that time still had the hopper machines and if I remember correctly they put like two per hopper fill which was fifty strikes. You couldn't see the strikes like today and you just had to feed the machine and hope the ole yeller one would drop out. They also made you empty the machine before they would fill it again. So, if the two Yellow Caps came out in the first twenty-five wins you still had to play on. Of course if you we're lucky enough to be in the first half of the fill you were the big winner. Some of those coins cost the players three/four hundred dollars.
Ther was a good side to it, the machines would pay up to five coins if you hit the "COIN", "COIN", "COIN" wheels just right. It usually took about two to three hundred to empty a machine from a new fill.

So there you have it, a history lesson in the world of striking....................

Jeff # 2