![]() "Everyone wins a lot here," she tells me. I pocket the dollar and talk to the bartender. A row of three dead frogs wins me one dollar. Road Again is a Trade Products game featuring mattresses, street signs, lost sneakers, sharks with briefcases, and various roadkill. They've got pull-tabs and I buy $15 of Road Again. I climb across the crushed barbed wire and get some beer at O'Finnigan's. A pick-up truck in the dirt lot of O'Finnigan's Tavern has backed over the fence. Barbed wire fences keep the neighbors out. Trade Products has its own fleet of trucks. It takes four and a half minutes to walk around the building. In a pile of broken glass I find a Red Hot 7, a pull-tab, a one-dollar winner. Neighbors packing their car with fishing gear yell at me. I have to lie on my belly because the dumpster sits low to the ground. Ink capsules, print sheets, shrink-wrap, beer cans, spilled crystals. The ground is filthy and stinks like vinegar-print chemicals-and I get dizzy. It's huge, sealed like a space capsule, but garbage has spilled from its mouth. The windows are glazed, reflecting mountains, which are very beautiful this morning, white with fresh snow. It's a glorified shed, big as a football field. Because it's Saturday, no one answers when I knock. The tabs are legal tender, so the factory keeps its garbage sealed. Trade Products makes over 3 billion pull-tabs a year. I buy coffee then drive around and find the pull-tab factory near Highway 99. They're jogging, wearing stretch nylon, looking very fit. I stop for directions at a drive-through coffee stand where two women buying lattes tell me they've never heard of Trade Products, or Lincoln Way-they just moved here. The factory, Trade Products, is on Lincoln Way. I pass Lake Serene Ridge and Fender Drive. The sun has burned through fog and glints off cars, blinding me, and I get lost. The biggest pull-tab factory in the world is in Lynnwood. "I think it's the pull-tab factory," he says. I ask Rick, "Who makes all this stuff up?" Thunder Buck is cartoon heads of presidents, symbols from U.S. Cow Tippin' has cows, yokel farmers, and outhouses. Saltin' of Slime turns up a gallery of cartoon slugs, all of them different. In Cherries I get three cherries in a row, which is how I win my three bucks. I play them all-Grand Casino, Cow Tippin', Mars Rocks, Tail Gaters, Thunder Buck, Show Me the Money, Murphy's Law, Cherries, Saltin' of Slime. Rick keeps a dozen or so bets running at a time. Every tavern, bowling alley, and bingo hall I've ever been to has them. Over 6 billion tabs are sold each year in Washington, the biggest market in the country. Each time a winner gets pulled, the bartender crosses it off the flare. The winners are listed on a big sign, called a flare. The tabs come in bins, five to six thousand in a bin, with four or five hundred winners among them. Pulling the tab reveals the figures the right combo pays off anywhere from one to five hundred dollars. Pull-tabs are thumb-sized slats of cardboard with a trio of figures printed inside a serrated tab. I go to Chubby and Tubby, cash a check for $40, then lose it all on tabs. I spend $30, losing all but three-enough to cover my two beers. The more I lose, the more welcome I feel. Winning tabs get handed to Rick, who pays them off with cash from the till. The floor is ankle-deep in used pull-tabs, all of them losers. A dozen men sit at the Locker Room's horseshoe bar drinking canned beer and talking to Rick, the owner. They've all got pull-tabs, but only the Locker Room lets you dump the spent tabs on the floor. Palisades Retreat Association, A School of Christian Livingġ633 N Cleveland Ave, Chicago, IL 60614-5685ġ752 Nw Market St #505, Seattle, WA 98107ģ616 South Rd, Suite C2, Mukilteo, WA 98275-1540įind all businesses with the same officer (ANTHONY NGUYEN)īusinesses with similar names Business NameĬ&c Set-Up, Tear Down, A/C, Repair & Transport LLCĤ815 W Clearwater Lot #16, Kennewick, WA 99336 Vietnamese Baptist Church Tin Lanh Vancouverħ510 Ne 161st Pl, Vancouver, WA 98682-3822ġ5609 E Sprague Ave # C, Spokane Vly, WA 99037-5003Ĩ115 Ne Vancouver Mall Dr #80, Vancouver, WA 98665ġ811 156th Ave Ne Ste 6, Bellevue, WA 98007-4344Ħ312 E Evergreen Blvd, Vancouver, WA 98661-7624īusinesses with the same officer (ANTHONY NGUYEN) Business Name Registered Agent Information Registered Agent NameĬorporation Documents History Document Typeīusinesses with the same agent Business Name The business type is WA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. The business address is 7525 24th Ave Ne, Seattle, WA 98115, USA. The Unified Business Identifier (UBI) is #602561326. is a business incorporated with Washington State Secretary of State. ![]()
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