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From the Liberty Bell to online slots: where the cherry, the bell and the BAR symbol on slot machines come from

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“From the Liberty Bell to online slots: where the cherry, the bell and the BAR symbol on slot machines come from”

In 1898, in a workshop at 406 Market Street in San Francisco, the mechanic Charles Fey built a machine with three reels, a side lever and five symbols: horseshoes, diamonds, spades, hearts and a cracked Liberty Bell. Lining up three bells paid fifty cents, or ten nickels. None of the images most people now associate with slot machines were on it: no cherry, no lemon, no BAR.

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