As a vendor handed Darla Talerico a 4-inch wad of $1 and $5 bills from the till box in a crane machine game at her namesake restaurant in Ambridge on Tuesday, he made her a timely offer.
“If these [skill] games go away,” he said, motioning to the five skill games machines tucked into a small side room in Talerico’s Bar and Grill at 2300 Duss Avenue, “we might have something that would help, maybe another crane machine or some other game we could put in here.”
Talerico knows all too well that on Oct. 13 her skill games could become illegal under a state Supreme Court decision from June, unless the court grants a requested four-month delay by the legislators hoping to legalize the games. She considered the vendor’s offer and said she’d think about it…