Automatic Age

Issue: 1937 November

November, 1937
AUTOMATIC AGE
110
5 BALL
N O V E L T Y
!
T A B L E ?
S K I L L and F U N
makes this great game
the biggest money
m aker you ever op­
erated.
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• LIGHT UP BUMPERS
• MIRROR METAL
PLAYING FIELD
• HIGH SCORE APPEAL
• LAST BALL SUSPENSE
OPERATORS— Count up your Novelty Game Spots . . .
Then order a ‘TOPS’ for each location. It’s ALIVE with
new money making vitamins — introducing’ newer and
greater features thru-out to give you the most exclusive
Novelty Table ever built.
T H E
G E T
R U S H
Y O U R
IS
ON
F O R
O R D E R
IN
‘ T O P S ’
Q U I C K
7 9 50
TAX PAID F.O.B. CHICAGO
W ith Automatic Pay Out
Register $10.00 Extra
F re y * In c .
118 N. E. First St.
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November, 1937
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mand for novelty game spots
and
pay table locations. Both
“ F o r th e T r a d e O n ly ” Is P la n fo r 1938
models introduce a new intrigu­
ing play entirely. The first ball
C o in S h o w
All operators are urged to the National Association of up commands a skill shot to
read carefully the following an- Coin Operated Machine Manu- best odds. Odds are posted on
nouncement issued by the NA- facturers, 120 South LaSalle a light-up back panel the in­
COMM Committee sponsoring St., Chicago, Illinois, who in stant the first ball passes over
the 1938 Coin Machine Exposi- turn will properly register ap- one of the numerous roll-over
tion. “Admission to the 1938 plicants and mail them special switches on the top of field.
Coin Machine Exposition will be admission tickets, badges, etc. Odds range from 2 to 30 with
by Special Registration Only.
“Operators who come to the bonus of $2.00 on total score
This plan was put into effect at Show, and who have not been of 500 or over.
the last show, for the first time, properly registered, before
“There are bumpers all over
and was so effective in remov- hand, will have to satisfy the the double reflecting mirror
ing the hangers on, bar flies and doorkeeper that they are opera- metal field. Each slight con­
chiselers who have no connection tors, then too, an admission tact with ball keeps the photo
with the industry from the ex- charge will be made. (Avoid light score totalizer clicking.
hibition floors and show rooms, this red tape and admission by When five balls have been
that it will again be in force for properly registering before- played and the score total cor­
responds with a winning score
the 1938 Show.
hand.)
The Coin Show is presented
“This special registration is number posted on back panel,
solely for people of the coin ma- ^or y0ur 0wn protection. So the odds are paid accordingly
chine industry. The presence of please comply with our request on the novelty table and auto­
other people and curiosity seek- and we win have a bang.up matically on the payout game.
ers is a hmderance and inter- ghow
0we for Coin Machine Everywhere Tops— as a payout
or novelty table has won the
teres with the efnciencv and op-
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Men Only.
crowds.
It incorporates more
eration of the show.
“All operators who are going
“Send in y°ur registration novelty play appeal and money
to attend the Annual Conven- now- Don,t Put it; °ff— it’s very making features than the usual
tion must make written appli- important. “The dates are Jan- table of th's kind. Exhibit of­
cation for admission tickets uary 17, 18, 19 and 20, 1938— ficials state they expect the or­
prior to the Show. Send re- the place, Hotel Sherman, Chi- ders for Tops to exceed all rec­
ords for any table game they
quests for admission tickets to cago, Illinois.”
have produced in past years.
This is indicated by the large
E x h ib it In T o p P r o d u c tio n O n F o u r
quantity orders received daily
by phone, wire and mail.”
N ew G am es
At this time Exhibit has also
A N overwhelming demand with great enthusiasm resulting brought forth a new one ball
for Exhibit’s four new inno-
in tremendous orders, pay table, Broncho.
vations to the coin machine
“Tanforan reveals a new
world are keeping the produc- vogue in console construction,
N e w P r e m i u m s O ff e r e d
tion departments of the Exhibit It is built high, wide and hand-
Supply Company humming day some with a beautifully lac-
T o O p e ra to rs
and night. Leo J. Kelly, sales quered cabinet and inclined
A new type of premium is
manager of the games division, two dial playing field high in being offered to the coin ma­
stated, “Each of the four games view to all players around. It chine operators by Tucker &
is a winner.
has won the admiration of Lowenthal, Inc., Chicago 111.
“Tanforan, the new sensa- everyone interested in coin ma- This firm specializes in rebuilt
tional low priced console has
chines where ever seen, watches of any design including
taken the operating field by
“The recent introduction of the well known trade names
storm. The actual showing and Exhibit’s new table game Tops,
demonstrations made at the has also met with great favor, Bulova, Elgin, Illinois and
show rooms of leading distri- Tops is built in two models— a Waltham. All of their watches
butors and jobbers attended by five ball novelty game and five are guaranteed to keep correct
factory representatives has met ball pay table to serve the de­ time.
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