Automatic Age

The World's First Coin Machine Magazine
AUTOMATIC ACE
Covering Automatic Machines and Coin-Controlled Devices of
Every Description
Vol. 14
SEPTEMBER 1937
No. 2
Features in This Issue
Page
Established 1925
S O R T IN G C O IN S W I T H T H E E D IT O R
By Hubert F. Messe ....................................... 12
S H IP S THAT PASS IN T H E N IG H T
By Arthur W. Luchs ....................................... 13
CO N SID E R E A R N IN G P O W E R PER DOLLAR
IN V E S T E D W H E N B U Y IN G M A C H IN E S
By Dave Bond ................................................... 14
O. C. L IG H T N E R
President
Y O U T H , M A T U R IT Y , A N D C O IN M A C H IN E S
By A. S. Douglis ............................................... 15
V O ICE OF TH E O P E R A T O R ..................................................16
T H E 1938 C O IN M A C H IN E
S H O W GETS U N D E R W A Y
By C. S. Darling ............................................... 20
W A T C H Y O U R C O M M IS S IO N S
By “An Operator” ............................................... 21
W I L L N E W H I G H CLASS A M U S E M E N T
A R C A D E S W I N P U B L IC R E C O G N IT IO N ? ......................... 24
HU BERT F. MESSE
FO R A M U S E M E N T O N L Y ....................................................... 26
Managing Editor
T IM E L Y T U N E S — NOTES OF IN T E R E S T
TO P H O N O G R A P H O P ER A T O R S ........................................... 29
P O IN T E R S ON H O L D IN G Y O U R LOCATIONS ................. 37
G O O D B O D Y ’S C O L U M N
By John Goodbody ............................................. 45
P H I L A D E L P H I A SECTION .................................................... 53
DEVELOP NEW
LO CATIONS FO R S K I L L GAM ES ......................................... 66
THE VOODOO COMES TO M A IN STREET ......................... 89
ARTHU R W. LUCHS
Editor
ASSO CIA TION N E W S ...... ........................................................100
A N A L Y Z I N G C O IN M A C H IN E
PRO F IT S IN TERM S OF LOCATIONS .................................102
N E W P A T EN T S
By Ken C. Shyvers .............................................149
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