Automatic Age

Issue: 1936 June

AUTOMATIC AGE
134
Exhibit Strikes
Oilless Gusher
The Exhibit Supply has not ac­
tually struck oil, of course, but with
the announcement of “Gusher,” their
new skill novelty 5-ball game, the im­
portant talk around the Exhibit Plant
is “Gusher.”
The oil field theme is carried out
in a beautiful manner on the large
playing field of this new novelty
game. Player shoots his first ball
through an oil well. The first ball
through, lights up the odds on the
back panel. These odds vary from 10
cents to $1.50. After the ball sets up
the odds, it continues to travel the
balance of the board, finally landing
in a colored pocket. With four addi­
tional balls to shoot, player has only
to get any two balls in identical
pockets to win. When he obtains a
B a s e b a ll S a le s T a l l y C a r d s
an d all kind s Coupons fo r O perators. D ally
and W eekly Series. N am es, and N um bers
in N at. and A m er. Leagues, w ith either
A m er. A ss’n, Pacific C oast, In te rn a tio n a l,
W estern, N. Y . P., S outhern or Texas
Leagues. 2, 3 or 4-way Baseball Series
and P ull T ickets. 2 Aces, 3 Aces, Square
Deal, Raffle C ards, Seven Lu ck y N u m ­
bers, Econom y P lay , N ew spaper H e a d ­
lines, D a ily Doubles, Tips, Gam es, etc.,
galore. Get new copyrighted confidential
Course of In stru ctio ns, ju s t out— “ H O W
TO S T A R T IN T H E B A S E B A L L T IC K E T
B U S IN E S S .” Price, $50.00. F ull p a r tic u ­
lars F R E E ! M ake $300.00 weekly. Send
$2.00 N O W fo r $5.00 w orth Assorted S a m ­
ples, C atalog ,
Rules and
P a rticu lars.
Refund first order. (E s t., 1919. R ef.: D un
& B rad stre e t). Season is here.
R u sh!
W ire or w rite.
F e rg u so n M fg . C o.
322 N. Senate Ave.
Dept. 25
In d ian ap o lis , Ind.
ATTENTION:
V E N D IN G
winner, the word “Oil” lights up on
the back panel, indicating to the mer­
chant that the player has indeed
struck oil.
Multiple coin slot action permits
the player to play as many as 5 coins
at one time, and receives a top p.
off of as much as $7.50.
Ray’s Track Given
“$100.00 Test”
Step into the Ray’s Track depart­
ment at the Bally Manufacturing
Company factory, and you will see
dozens of machines all busily operat­
ing by themselves, with the electric
coin-chute going in and out as if by
magic, and the nine horses galloping
up the track and back in a never-end­
ing “inspection sweepstake.”
These machines, according to Ray
Moloney, president of Bally, are be­
ing given the ‘$ 100.00 test” prior to
being shipped. “Each and every
Ray’s Track,” says Ray, for whom
the game was named, “is automatic­
ally operated the equivalent of $ 100.00
worth of nickel play, There is noth­
ing on the machine that can wear
out, so the test does not in any way
effect it. But it will reveal any pai-ts
which may not have been perfectly
adjusted, and enable us to correct it
before the game is shipped. After
each machine is run 2,000 times, it is
again thoroughly inspected, re-lubri­
cated and ready to go out and bring
home the bacon for the many opera­
tors who are placing Ray’s Track in
all parts of the country.
M A C H IN E
OPERATORS
W R IT E F O R F R E E S A M P L E S A N D P R IC E S O F O U R N E W
PEANUT-SHAPED CH EW IN G GUM
W ill vend in a n y p e a n u t ve n d in g m achine.
A fa s t seller— people b u y it because they lik e it.
U . G . G R A N D B O IS C O .
“ Q U IC K
kalam azoo
H E N R Y - T H E
. M i c h i g a n
K IT !”
E v e ry P in G a m e a n d P a y T able O pe rator should carry a “ J IF F I- H A N D I-
K IT ” a t a ll tim es to tak e care of h is m ost com m on service calls. T his k it
co nta ins 150 ind ispensable parts, consisting- of S p ring s of all kinds, such
as rebounds, inside an d o utside plungers, s lid in g panel, barrel, curled and
s tra ig h t flags, kicker, extension, an d p lay in g lield springs; K u n w a y gates;
Steel an d G lass B a lls ; a n d P lu n g e r B um pers.
A bove “ J IF F I- H A N D IK IT ” No. 5K ,
A lso
price, $4.50 each
“ J IF F I- H A N D IK IT ” No. 10K, price, $3.75 each
N O . 10K consists of 150 assorted Springs and P lu n g e r B um pe rs, b u t no
B alls. T ry a sam ple “ J I F F I - H A N D IK IT ” a t once an d g re atly reduce vour
service costs.
L O U I S H E N R Y , 9 2 6 L i n d l e y A v e ., P h i l a d e l p h i a , P a .
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Ju7ie, 1936
“Races’- Two Years,
Gets 2nd W ind
p A C E ’S “RACES” are celebrating
their second anniversary and ac­
cording to H. L. Baker, vice-presi­
dent of Paces Races, Inc., sales for
the first six months of 1936 have
reached a new peak. From all appear­
ances 1936 will be the banner year.
A s hipm e nt of 50
custom er who has
Paces Races fo r a
500 now operating.
Mr. Baker stated that “The sales of
Pace’s ‘Races’ have even surprised
us as they have far surpassed our
expectations. When we started to
design this machine, we estimated
that 1500 to 2000 machines would be
the maximum that we could sell, but
to date 4000 ‘Races’ have been manu­
factured and sold and no letup in
sight.”
Pace’s “Races” apparently have
earned a definite place in the operat­
ing field. There has not been one
instance reported, according to Mr.
Baker, where an operator was forced
to remove a “Races” from a loca­
tion due to poor receipts, The sales
of “Races” prove that operators are
willing to pay the price for equip­
ment when they know their invest­
ment will bring good returns.
One big reason for the outstand­
ing sales record of Pace’s “Races”
is attributed to the unique sales pro­
gram mapped out and adhered to by
E. W. Pace, president and sales man­
ager. To a great extent distributors
and operators have been benefited by
this program and it has reduced com­
petition in their territories to a
minimum.
The factory is purchasing addi­
tional machinery and acquiring more
floor space to accommodate the in­
creased demand for the machine.
About 600 servicemen have been
trained by Paces Races school, and
these men are scattered throughout
the civilized world.
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June, 1986
185
both Mr. Marcus and Mr. Stanley in
obtaining and disposing of used games
for the Chicago trade.
Thanks Leon, for the Nice Order
Offices, showrooms and warehouse
will be maintained by Automatic-
Markepp, Inc. at 2338 Belmont Ave­
nue, Chicago. R. L. Wilds, formerly
managing director of the National
Automatic Distributors Association,
will be in charge. Coin-machine men
who have watched Mr. W ild’s good
work in the NADA agree that Auto-
matic-Markepp, Inc. is as fortunate
in its choice of manager as it was
in having Meyer Marcus and S. L.
Stanley for its co-founders.
Leon Taksen h ands W illia m Silver, New Y o rk representative
a check for 250 subscriptions.
C o in C o u n t e r
fo r
M a r c u s , S ta n le y
O r g a n iz e
B u s y O p e ra to rs
C h ic a g o J o b b in g F ir m
C O N F IR M IN G the appointment of
Automatic-Markepp, Inc. as Bally
distributors for the Greater Chicago
area, Jim Buckley, sales manager of
Bally Manufacturing Company, stated
that “leading distributors who have
been advised of Automatic-Markepp’s
Part in the Bally set-up are united
expressing satisfaction, the general
comment being that the new organi­
zation will exert a healthy influence
°n the entire industry.”
Automatic-Markepp, Inc., was or­
ganized recently by two of the fore­
most distributors in the coin-machine
'ndustry, Meyer Marcus, president of
The Markepp Company, Inc., of
Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio, and
S- L. Stanley, head of the Automatic
Amusement Company, with head­
quarters in Memphis, Tennessee, and
branch offices in a number of south­
ern cities. Mr. Marcus and Mr.
Stanley are both well known in the
industry, not only for the efficiency
of the sales organizations they have
built up, but also for their faithful­
ness to the policies in which they be­
lieve. Mr. Marcus, during the past
year, has been very active in the
promotion of favorable publicity,
benefiting the entire industry, and has
unstintingly contributed time and
money to various good will move­
ments. Mr. Stanley has gained the
reputation of being one of the boldest
pioneers in the industry and has a
large following of operators.
The “parent” organizations in Ohio
and the South will maintain their
separate identity and will be oper­
ated independent of the new Chicago
firm, but the latter, it is stated, will
draw on the far-flung facilities of
U SE D M A C H IN E B A R G A IN S
Balance ............................... $ 8.00
Beam Lite ................................... 5.00
Cue (new) ................................... 22.50
Esquire ............................... 4.00
Frisky ................................. 10.00
Plying Trapeze .......................... 5.00
Lucky Star ................................. 12.50
M an in Moon ..............................$ 8.00
Rebound .......................................
5.00
Star-A -Lite
................................ 7.00
Score-A-Lite .............................. 8.00
Travel ........................................... 7.00
Hells Bells ................................... 12.50
H arvest Moon ............................ 25.00
A u to m a tic Payouts
Counter G am es
Derby (plain) ............................. $60.00
Jumbo (plain) ........................... 37.50
Pamco Parlay ............................ 60.00
Repeater ...................................... 45.00
K ing Six, J r ................................. $ 8.00
Hold and D raw ........................ 10.00
Select-Em ...................................
3.50
W ag o n W heel ............................ 8.00
One-third with Order, Balance C.O.D.
A M E R IC A N
969 Main Street
D IS T R IB U T IN G C O .
Buffalo, New York
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COIN COUNTER
Operators! Here’s one of the
best accessories you can use in
making your collections. Counts
and stacks coins quicker than
any other method. Thousands
now in use— one operator said:
“If I could not get another
counter like it I wouldn’t take a
thousand dollars for it.” . . .
Made of heavy cast aluminum.
. . . W ill last a life time. Sold
on money back guarantee.
H u b e r C o in M a c h in e
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