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The floor plan o f the Exposition hall is
shown on the opposite page.
Booths 1 and 2— fo r music display— $65.
each.
Booths 22 and 23 center— dominating en
trance— $65. each. Number 3 also dominat
ing the entrance is $65.
A ll other 10 x 10 booths are $50.00 each.
The 7 x 10 booths at the end of the hall
$40, each. The 10 x 10 booths at the end
of hall giving dominating view of both
aisles are $50 each. Naturally there is
some advantage in being near the entrance
but that is offset by the fact that in the
rear will be a group of seats where the
operators may rest, and this will naturally
insure a crowd being in that section the
same as near the entrance.
Booths 1 and 2 are given over to musical
exhibits where exhibitors may play the in
struments— as they are some distance away
from the balance of the exhibits and there
will be no complaint. Booth 48 is also given
over to music exhibit as it faces the group
o f seats in the rear o f the hall where the
operators will congregate and rest. It will
be the understanding that who ever takes
this booth may not play the instruments in
the exhibits if the adjoining exhibitors com
plain. Outside o f these, any booths in the
hall are about the same.
There are only 62 booths on the plait, and
at the last Sherman Hotel Exposition there
were 103 exhibitors. A fter these 62 are sold
out, there is a possibility o f crowding in
three or four more, but any that are sold in
addition will have to spread out on the
mezzanine floor, or a small hall adjoining.
However, all this space is on the same floor
as the Exposition Hall, and is easily
accessible as it adjoins the main hall.
Y our check fo r 25 per cent must accom
pany your application. Make the checks
payable to Coin Machine M anufacturers’
Exposition o f Chicago.
It will be wise to make first and second
choice, and as long as everybody has an
equal chance, it is your own fault if you
do not get a choice space.
Because o f the new features o f the E x
position, a crowd larger than ever before
is expected. There is nothing that will
draw the operators together quicker than
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having a general good time.
W e have certainly been in the depression
long enough. Here is a chance to see all
the new machines, learn new wrinkles o f
the business from other operators and wind
up with a fine time that will cost operators
nothing.
You will not be button-holed fo r a mem
bership fee o f $25 and there will be no
crowd haranging you to buy banquet tick
ets. A s the old saying goes— “ The best
things in life are free.” That is how the
manufacturers want to make the operators
feel this year.
Please understand that while the Chicago
manufacturers are doing the work to put
on a show every manufacturer throughout
the country who exhibits machines is pay
ing his share to entertain you boys. Man
ufacturers outside Chicago are entitled to
just as much credit.
Scales Feel It
Depression note. The latest business man
to notice the depression is the man who
counts the pennies in the weighing ma-
chies. Anne Jesselson, lunching in the Can
ary shoppe on North Michigan avenue, ob
served a man counting hundreds o f pennies
on a little table at the back o f the room.
She learned that his business was collect
ing from the weighing machines. He said
business was falling off fearfully. Three
months ago he averaged YlVn cents a day
trom his machines, two months ago it
amounted to 16 cents daily, and that day
he grumbled that it was only 14 cents. The
reason fo r the falling off in receipts is be
cause people who don’t have enough money
to eat neither have pennies to put in r
weighing machine nor care what they
weigh, he volunteered.— From “ This Gale.
W orld.”
Gabbalot— So you’re the professor who
is teaching my wife voice culture. W ha.
sort o f a pupil is she?
Professor— W ell, I find her very apt, t
say the least.
Gabbalot— That’s strange, I always fin I
her very apt to say the most.
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