“When did they get rid of the coin slot machines? I miss the sound of the old coin slot machines.”
Go downtown, you’ll find some there.
Must be similar to what I experienced yesterday. The park across the street from me has a baseball diamond, it's quite a ways from my house but I walked over there to watch the little leaguers play.
The first sound I heard as I approached the diamond was the sound of a baseball meeting aluminum. Like fingernails on a chalk board to me.
I have a pretty good system to make our money last longer. We put $100 into a slot machine and play it through once. That is, if we are at a $2 machine, we spin the reels exactly 50 times and then cash out. Most slots in Vegas pay 94-98% back so typically after 50 spins on a $2 bet, we usually have at least $80 left and sometimes we are over the original $100. If less than $100, we take what's left and go play another machine (adding whatever we need to make it $100 again). If more than $100, my wife stays at the machine while I take the ticket to a cash machine and I put the "winnings" in a separate pocket and we play the original $100 back again on the same machine. Sometimes you get a "hot" machine and one time we came out ahead on a slot machine something like 10 times in a row. We spent hours on that one machine and splurged on a nice dinner afterwards with the winnings.
Some people look down on casino gambling and I can understand why. Like alcohol or anything else, it can become addictive and ruin your life. However, if you go in there with a plan to have fun and budget your money accordingly with what you can afford to lose, it can be a very pleasurable experience - just another form of entertainment. I used to spend more money taking the kids to Disneyland. Now that they are grown up, it's time for the parents to have some fun!