Automatic Age

Issue: 1938 June

The World’s First Coin Machine Magazine
AUTOMATIC AGE
Covering Automatic Machines and Coin-Controlled Devices of
Every Description
Vol. 14
JU N E , 1938
No. 11
Features in This Issue
Established 1925
Page
SORTING COINS W IT H THE E D IT O R
By Carroll E. Vetterick_____________________________ 13
T HE QU ESTION SEEMS TO BE: W H O
GETS THE M ON EY
By O. C. L ig h tn e r___________________________________ 15
THE COIN M A C H IN E
By James T. M a n g a n _______________________________ 19
COIN CHUTE M AGIC (Mr. Calcutt Comes to Town)
By Carroll E. Vetterick_____________________________ 20
JO E H U B E R W IL L M ANAGE CMMA
COIN M A C H IN E S H O W _______________________ ^________ 21
NACOMM HOST TO T RAD E AT
P R E V IE W AND B A N Q U E T _____________________________ 22
SHOP AND SH O W ROOM — A NEW S
R E V IE W OF N E W COIN M A C H IN E PRO D U C T S____24, 25
G O O D B O D Y ’S COLUMN
By John Goodbody __________________________________27
P U RE CANDY lc
A Trip Through A Giant Factory
Where Vending Candies are M a d e __________________31
TEN Y EA RS IN T HE COIN M A C H IN E IN D U S T R Y ____35
O. C. L IG H T N E R
President
CA RRO LL E. V ET T ERICK
Editor— Adv. Director
FO R A M U SEM EN T O N L Y ______________________________ 39
ASSOCIATION N EW S ___________________________________ 57
M ART IN J. MRAZ
ON T HE R E C O R D _______________________________________ 61
* Ass’t. Editor
SELLIN G AN ID E A
By Herman A r le in __________________________________ 65
ODD FACTS AND UNUSUAL E V E N T S _________________79
AUTOMATIC M A IL B O X ________________________________82
T H E R E ’S M ON EY IN MOBS
By Bill R a b k in ------------------------------ 91
THE T RA D E ASSOCIATION
How it Benefits Operators
By LeRoy B. Stein _ __________________________________ 95
THE O PERAT OR MUST M AKE M ONEY
By H. F. B u r t ______________________________________ 99
COINS AND CO UN T ERFEIT
By the E d ito r ______________________________________ 103
Staff Contributors:
JO H N GOOD BO DY
KEN SH YVERS
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AUTOMATIC AGE
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C O you are a coin machine man! Then throw out Ginsburg, a Louis Wolcher, a “Gerry” Haley, a
your chest! Pull those shoulders back! Smile, John Goodbody, a “Perc” Smith, an “Al” Douglis,
and mean it! Let everybody know that you are a an “Eddie” Ross, a Bill Gray, a Lou Gensburg,
coin machine man! And let them know that you a J. 0. Bates, a Dick Hood, a John A. Fitzgibbons,
are mighty proud of the fact! Tell your friends, an Archie Le Beau— and a hundred more we
your banker, your relatives, your competitors, could list without naming all the real coin ma­
your neighbors, your fellow business men in your chine men in the industry— the “regular fellows”
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home town, your — the hard-hitting, sound-thinking, pleasure-lov­
Show Pr.de in Being church members, your ing, honest, red-blooded live-and-let-live coin ma­
om Machine Man mayor and councilmen, chine men! You’ll not match them in any other
your government representatives, your school of­ business in the world!
What a fraternity, with members like these
ficials, your fellow tax payers, the members of
your club and your lodge. Tell them all! Let them men! That’s what the coin machine business is,
know that you are a coin machine man! A sound after all— a huge fraternity of “right” fellows.
business man! A good neighbor! A respectable Not a weakling among them! Not a man who
citizen! A swell fellow! A man who gets things would not actually go out of his way to help a
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fellow business man,
done in the community, in the school, in the club, rj,, .
Their Personality is eyen a riva], Not a one
in the lodge! A leader!
Iheir Badge
of them who would not
Don’t be just another operator, an unknown, grieve if a fellow competitor should “go to the
an “also ran” ! Be a real coin machine man! There wall” !
are scores of them in the industry, setting an
And no secret handshake is necessary to dis­
example for you. To call just a few names on the tinguish the real coin machine man! No badges
1’oster of real coin machine men, why not strive are needed to point them out at any Coin Machine
to be, for example, a Fred Mauer, a Fred Mills Show! No advance registration or display of
or a Fred Turner; a Jim Buckley, a Jim Mangan credentials is required to identify the real coin
or a Jimmy Johnson; a Dave Bond, a Dave machine man when he walks in!
Rockola or a Dave Gottlieb; a Ray Moloney or a
Check up on yourself! Are you a real coin ma­
Ray Becker; a Joe Calcutt, a Sam Wolberg, a chine man? You can be if you want to be! Start
Tom Watling, a Bill Rabkin, a Walter Tratsch, a with a smile, faith in your business and faith in
Joe Huber, a Jack Keeney, a Ted Stoner, an E. yourself. The rest will come naturally and inevi­
T. Baron, a Tom Ferris, a D. Robbins, a Bob tably! Loosen up a bit, be friendly with every­
Gans, a Geo. Ponser, an R. E. (“Smitty”) Smith, body ! Go out of your way to make a new friend!
a Vince Shay, a Henry Lemke, a Karl Klein, an And when you make a new friend, be sincere, be
I- H. Rothstein, an Art Caille, a Lee S. Jones, an a real friend to him!
Help your fellow business man in any way you
E. J. Burel, a W. E. Bolen, a Leo Kelly, a Bill
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Happel, a Homer Cape- can, likewise your community and its dozen or
n/r ^ xJ,m P^es hart, a Max Hurvich, a more clubs, schools, churches! Get the habit of
u Might Follow
shayne, a Charlie knowing what should be done and always be on
Fey, a “Nat” Leverone, an 0. D. Jennings, a Bob deck to help, to lead the work!
It’s not just a matter of business, it’s life itself
Gabel, a Henry Seiden, a Marshall Seeburg, a
Rill Cohen, a Frank Vogel, a Jack Nelson, a Nat — it’s making the most of life— every day! It
Cohn, a Harry Drollinger, an Einar Wilslev, a
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^a x Glass, an A. E. Gebert, a Herald Baker, an Be a Leader In ^ a n sjmpjy making your
S- L. Stanley, a Jack Bechtol, a Fred Mann, Your Community business grow and prosper!
an M. M. Marcus, an H. F. Moseley, an Eddie You get a “kick” out of it at the same time! A
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