> 2. Sanatoris Short-Cut (September 1948, P. 113)
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https://archive.org/details/Startling_Stories_v18n01_1948-09_Gorgon776/page/n1/mode/2upI have to wonder, though: did gambling /ever/ actually work the way
Vance describes it in this story? I get that 1948 is before
closed-circuit TV and omnisurveillance, but I have to imagine that even
then, if a customer tried to openly film or photograph a gaming machine
in operation, or put an obvious physical mark on it to gauge the speed
of rotation, casino security would be on him /instantly/ and he would be
(at a minimum, and that's if it /wasn't/ just a front for organized
crime) escorted off the premises.
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