Ströms mens fashion was situated in the corner of Stockholm, Sweden. A store where kings, politicians, dirty rich famous people was shopping. The corner was Sveavägen and Kungsgatan.
I was standing on a pall downstairs at Ströms and one guy took measurement of my whole body. He told guy no. two every single one who wrote it down in a book.
A half an hour later I walked straight across Sveavägen to my new job at Monte Carlo Casino. A brand new business in Sweden.
A Casino with all traditional roulette, card and dize games and slot machines. On top of that we had some arcade games on the top floor.
My job was to be in charge for all machinery. Repair, support and service. My friend Affe was responsible for the board games and finance.
So how come I ended up here? My old friend Kalle Grundel, (world famous rally driver) walked in one day in the carpet shop and said, I have a new job for you.
He was already working with slot machines, flipper and arcade games service on restaurants and hotels all over stockholm.
He recommend me for his bosses at Bally Scandinavia who said ok!.
A few days later Ströms called me in to try my new outfit. 2 red jackets, 2 pair of black trousers, 5 Black shirts and 2 red ties. Well that felt strange but you get use to it.
We also had a huge restaurant and long bar. We opened at 11:00 for lunch and closed 04:00 the day after. It was crowded all the time, after a while we had to take out the arcade games and bowling as the bar sold boose and beer.
I had a couple of employees who helped out on my free hours. Our main problem was all cheating and fishing to steal our money in the slot machines.
Thier technics was sometimes brilliant and give us a few hours thinking about what they did. Was it a drilled hole? If so we had to fabricate a protection shield or similar. In all our machines. Kalle och Claes Ellsén had to fix all other out there.
After a couple of years I joined the team in the service team with express support from my car and a communication radio station with beautiful girls giving me orders where to go.
The time went by and slowly I start loose control of my privat life as I lived alone. It was a lot of party, nightclubs, spain trips, new daily ladies and huge drinks. A dark period but probably fun.
So I met my wife on a Spain trip in Benidorm with some casino guys. Passed out on the beach. Had 0 vitamins in my body. She helped me from day one to recover and stop drinking. Took me years to get 100% back on track. Thanks Lotta!
What happened with our jobs? The leftwing government found out that we made a lot of money in the slot machines and they couldn't tax us as much as the wanted.
So our office in Solna was trying to make a counting unit taxman could use, but no dize. So they just decided to forbid slot machines! A few days later they needed support from public and started huge campaigns about people loosing all their money. It was everywhere and the law passed.
Not one article about all other games running by them you get bankrupt from.
Today casinos are legal again but only running by the state.
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