Classic Mode

Automatic Age

Issue: 1939 June

D IRECT IO N S
He— If you’ll give me your tele­
phone number, I ’ll call you up some­
time.
She— It’s in the book.
He— Fine! And what’s your name?
She— That’s in the book, too.
* * *
“Is this the N. A. laundry? Well,
you sent me half dozen old handker­
chiefs instead of my shirt.
“Them ain’t handkerchiefs. That
is your shirt.”
* * *
TOO BAD
“Jane’s as pretty as a picture ex­
cept for one feature.”
“Yes, her chin; it’s a double fea­
ture.”
* * *
M ALE SERVICE
“You brute! You ought to be
ashamed to talk about mother the
way you do. For two cents, I ’d send
her a letter and ask her never to
visit us again.”
“Hah! I ’ll give you six cents. Send
it air m ail!”
* =* *
“I never have the slightest trouble
getting housewives to look into what
I sell.”
“No? And what do you sell?”
“Mirrors.”
* * *
When the professor falls in love
with a co-ed, she makes A while she
cam.
* * *
M OTHER KNOW S BEST
Mother: You little brat! Why don’t
you pattern yourself after your
father?
Son: What has he done?
Mother: Why, he has just been
paroled from the penitentiary for
good conduct.
* * *
“What are those brown spots on
your lapel— gravy?”
“No, that’s rust. They said this
suit would wear like iron.”
H ELLO
“Hello! This is long distance. I
have a call for you from Miami.”
“Hello! This is Ben. Listen, Jack,
I ’m stranded here and need $100.”
“I can’t hear you. Something is
wrong with the phone.”
“I want $ 100 .”
“I can’t hear you.”
Operator—“I can hear it 0. K.”
“Well, you give him the $100.”
* * *
“Why did they evict the medical
student from the library?”
“They caught him removing the
appendix from the book he was react­
ing.”
* * *
Another big mystery is how the
average businessman can work like
a horse all day, and then hoof it up
all evening in a night club.
* * *
“What makes you so unpopular
with these other girls?”
“I won a popularity contest.”
* * *
W IL D D R IV E R
“When I drive, I cover a lot of
ground!”
“Say, what kind of machine do you
drive?”
“A steam roller!”
* * *
“I ’m looking for a husband.”
“Well, lady, shall I direct you to a
matrimonial agency?”
“No, to a detective agency.”
* * *
First Beauty— Why did you quit
going around with that handsome
architect?
Second Beauty— His plans didn’t
suit me.
* * *
T IM E W ASTED
“I been window shopping.”
“Whaddayamean,
window shop­
ping?”
“I been looking in windows.”
“What for? Nobody’s in bed this
time of night.”
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Girls, beumre of the botanical lover.
You know, the kind that blooms in
the spring and leaves in the fall.
* * *
An old maid wouldn't go chasing
after every Tom, Dick and Harry if
she had a W ill of her own.
* * *
“Does my gown look as though it
were falling off my shoulder?”
“Naw, let’s dance.”
“I ’m sorry, but I must go and re­
arrange it.
It’s supposed to look
that way.”
* * *
The time a guy ought to have his
head examined is when his hair starts
to fall.
* * *
A movie fan’s idea of heaven is
getting high and having a date with
a star.
* * *
ART
“So your brother is a painter, eh?”
“Yep.”
“ Paints houses, I presume?”
“Nope, paints men and women.”
“Oh, I see. He’s an artist.”
“Nope, just paints women on one
door and men on the other.”
* * *
TAXES!
WPA Executive— If we don’t figure
out a way to spend that one hundred
and twenty million dollars, we lose
our jobs!
Secretary— How about a bridge
over the Mississippi—lengthwise?
* * *
A newly created papa received the
glad tidings in a telegram. “Hazel
gave birth to a girl this morning;
both doing well.” On the message
was a sticker reading, “When you
want a boy, call Western Union.”
♦ ♦ ♦
Inquisitive— What did the Night
Clerk do when he caught you looking
over the girl’s transom?
Bell Boy— Not a thing. He sees
things the same way I do.
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June, 1939
AUTOMATIC AGE
W urlitzer Basketball Team
That W urlitzer workers can do something besides make phonographs is
evident by the record of their basketball team in the Tonawanda Indus­
trial League. Champs for the second consecutive year, the W urlitzer Team
has lost but two games in two seasons. Composed of foi'iner scholastic and
semi-pro stars this aggregation is as colorful and brilluvnt in action as
are the W urlitzer Automatic Phonographs they help build when off the
basketball courts! Standing (left to rig h t)— Coach Mike Io n a Joe Mor-
retto, Andy Syposs, Ken Towers, Sam Sheldon, Woody Malone, G. E. Diel,
promoter. Seated. Jack Thom, Ken Burlak, Gus Toth, Jim Vona.
Bally Announces
New Game Trio
Announcing the three newest Bally
games, Jim Buckley, general sales
manager of Bally Mfg. Company,
stated that the machines were de­
signed to fit into Bally’s balanced
line policy.
“Following up the sensational suc­
cess of Fifth Inning and Spottem,
Jim said, “Bally now presents Double
Feature and Chevron to insure a con­
tinuation of the big earnings enjoyed
by Bally operators. Chevron, as the
successor to Spottem, enables oper­
ators to move their Spottems on to
second-string spots and maintain peak
earnings in their choice locations.
With all the play appeal of Spottem,
Chevron also includes a fascinating
new ‘When Lit’ Roll-Over which of­
fers the same advantages as inter­
mediate awards.”
“Double Feature, while primarily
built for the high-score market, is
actually a revolutionary new de­
parture in game action — the first
really new development since the
start of the spiral bumpers. Double
Feature bumpers are ‘two-faced’ or
‘double-duty’ or whatever you want
to call them—they score 100 or 1,000
depending on whether they’re hit
from above or below! I certainly
don’t have to go into any great song
and dance to convince operators that
double-duty bumpers are really some­
thing— and will unquestion start the
bumper boom all over again.
“ Double Feature and Chevron in­
clude many new mechanical refine­
ments— such as in-a-door coin-chute
—triple anti-tilt— new floating power
— new super-sensitive, long-bearing,
rubber-tip shooter— features which
insure longer life, bigger profits,
greater all round value.”
“Our third new Bally hit is Victory
the game that means free play terri­
tory will continue to produce ‘pay-
table’ profits! Victory has all the
play-appeal of Eureka— Mystery Se­
lections— Changing Odds— ‘in-Place-
Show’ Awards— all the ‘come-on’ and
‘keep-on’ of a pay-table . . . plus
greater flash than Eureka— greater
action — popular sports theme on
board and back-glass — tantalizing
‘When-Lit’ Roll-Overs — many me­
chanical refinements, including E-Z
Push Free Play Coin-Chute.”
Like Eureka, Victory is ultra-
flexible: operate as a one-shot or
5-ball, 4-ball or 2-ball game with or
without 4-way multiple. All awards
metered— and some wide range ad-
justabiity as Bally pay tables.
* * f
“I want something nice in oil for
a dining room.”
“Yes, madam, a landscape or a
can of sardines?”
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AU TH ORIZED
FACTORY DISTRIBUTORS
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ROY TORR
2047G So. 68th St.
Philadelphia, Pa.
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V IK IN G S PEC IA LT Y CO.
530 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco, Calif.
V E N D IN G MCH. H EA D Q U A RT E RS
1160 Mission
San Francisco, Calif.
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R E L IA B L E V EN D IN G M A CH IN E CO.
462 Venice Blvd.
Los Angeles, Calif.
T H E ATLAS SALES COMPANY
6121 Lorain Ave.
Cleveland, Ohio
•
P IO N E E R V E N D IN G S ER V IC E
461 Sackman Street
Brooklyn, N. Y.
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R A K E COIN M ACH IN E E X C H A N G E
3-5 & 7 So. 22nd St.
Philadelphia, Pa.
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E. T. BARRON & CO.
19 E. Lake St.
Minneapolis, Minn.
•
LA N D E R S & ROBERTS
115 Lake Shore Road
Humber Bay, Ontario, Canada
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M. B RO D IE CO.
2182 Pacific Ave.
Long Beach, Calif.
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N ATION AL COIN M A C H IN E EXCH .
1407 Diversey Ave.
Chicago, III.
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KIN G & CO.
2700 W. Lake St.
Chicago, III.
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C. G. GAY
5211 Venable Ave.
Charleston, W . Va.
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P H IL G E R ST E N SC H LA G E R
1304 21st St.
Port Huron, Mich.
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PITON <£. COOK
663 Lucy Ave.
Memphis, Tenn.
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