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Issue: 1931 December

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December , 1931
Free Banquet Features Coin-Machine
E x p o s itio n
The next Annual Coin-Machine Exposition will be held
at the Sherman Hotel, February 22, 23, 24 and 25, under the man­
agement and auspices of the Chicago Manufacturers Committee.
Every manufacturer in Chicago has been asked to serve on the
convention Committee.
Several new features will be incorporated in the Exposition
this year. The most important is the plan to use the excess money
paid for the cost of booths in giving the operators a free banquet.
A t a meeting of the Chicago manufacturers held at the Sher­
man Hotel, plans were completed and committees appointed to
carry on the show. Practically all the leading manufacturers were
represented and an unanimous rising vote was taken pledging each
and every manufacturer present to support the manufacturers’
show and no other. The three leading trade journals also pledged
their support to it. Committees were appointed as follows:
E X E C U T IV E — Wm. Ryan, 0 . D. Jennings & Company; Lee Jones,
J. P. Seeburg Corp.; Walter Tratsch, A. B. T. Mfg. Co.; D. Gott­
lieb, D. Gottlieb & Co.; J. H. Keeney, Keeney & Sons; Mr. Maloney,
Midwest Novelty Mfg. Co.
BAN QU ET A N D E N T E R T A IN M E N T — L. B. Elliott, J. E. Van
Tyle, 0 . C. Lightner, J. 0 . Huber, M. Gensberg, C. J. Dollnig,
Tom Murray.
J. 0 . Huber was selected managing director to allot the
space. Applications should be made to him at 617 W . Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago. Pledges of manufacturers to support one
show will be welcomed by everyone in the trade. The manufac­
turers themselves feel that three shows are an unnecessary burden
of expense and think if all the effort is put behind one show it
will also welcome the decision to have one show only because all
the efforts of the entire trade will be directed to make this one affair
an outstanding success and enable all the operators to see all
the machines without having to attend different shows. Operators
who have complained that too many shows have a tendency to start
too much competition for themselves will also feel that this is a step
in the right direction. There is no objection on the part of the
operators to one show, but they do feel that several of them each
year are bound to overload the operators with too much new blood
until the business can profitably absorb it.
In years past there have been three conventions, two held by
different operators’ associations, and one by a group of manufac­
turers in New York. The Chicago Manufacturers are working
hard to make their show the only one of the year. It certainly was
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deplorable in the past to have the industry broken up into three
groups holding three different shows. It would be a shame to foist
anything like that on the trade at a time such as this.
Mr. Huber has agreed to give his services free, and the profits
of the show will not go to paying secretaries, but will be given
back to operators in the form of a free banquet. Each manufac­
turer will be given a certain number of banquet tickets with his
space. These he will hand to the operators when they make a pur­
chase. There will be no button-holing visitors to take a member­
ship in some unknown organization, nor will they be harangued to
buy banquet tickets.
The largest Exposition in the history of the industry was
held two years ago at the Sherman Hotel. At that time there were
103 exhibitors. W e expect an equal number this year, as the A u t o ­
m a t ic A ge has been besieged by letters lately asking where the
Exposition will be held and when it will be announced. We earn­
estly urge all the manufacturers who expect to exhibit to send their
reservations to Mr. Huber at once with a check for 25 per cent of
the amount.
Excessive charge for booths has been eliminated along with
the profits made by individuals from shows in past years.
See next page for floor plan and information on exhibit space.
He Sells the Space
J. O. Huber
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This presents the chap who will
have charge of selling the space,
Joe Huber. He is already well and
favorably known in the trade for
the unprecedented record he has
made in building up the big scale
business of the Rockola Mfg. Co.,
in so short a period of time. He
is one of the outstanding sales
managers of the industry and is a
“horse” for work. They say he
can do more work in a day than
any two men on the average. Mr.
Huber volunteered to handle the
details of allotting the space with­
out pay because he was sold on the
idea that we could use the surplus
money to give the boys a good time,
instead of paying a thousand dol­
lars apiece to three different con­
vention managers. He is working
hard to have the biggest crowd of
operators together that we ever
had.
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