MACON, Ga. — Commissioner Virgil Watkins is proposing tighter restrictions on stores with coin-operated gambling machines. Macon-Bibb County commissioners are set to discuss the issue Tuesday. If ...

For most people who grew up in the suburbs, a trip to the grocery store looked and felt like a completely different experience than what it is today. Children often accompanied—or rather, were dragged ...

The noise is unmistakable, though it’s heard at fewer and fewer casinos these days. Clank-clank-clank-clank-clank. That’s the sound of money — metal coins hitting a metal tray — signifying slot or ...

Dublin, Nov. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "U.S. Coin-operated Commercial Laundry Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Equipment (Top-load, Front-load), By Product (Washer, Dryer, Others) ...

A coin-operated laundromat can be a lucrative investment and a fun community business. Laundromats have a reputation for being dingy, boring places but are becoming more modern. Some laundromats have ...

Back in the 1920s, it seemed everything was becoming coin-operated. All over the U.S., you could find coin-operated weighing machines at railroad stations; coin-operated vending machines were chock ...

Editor's note: This article was originally published on February 1, 2008, and has been updated. It was excerpted from our Coin-Operated Laundry start-up guide, available from Entrepreneur Bookstore.

Percival Everitt doesn't even have a Wikipedia page, but video game historian Alex Smith describes this Norfolk-born engineer as the “father of the coin-op industry”. This weekend in 1884 he patented ...