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AUTOM ATIC
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State Music Com pany of M ilw aukee
Left to right: M ike Fose, Sales Manager for State Music D istributing Company; E. H.
Vollmar, LaCrosse Music Merchant, signing an order, and B ill Mossbarger, W urlitzer
D istrict Manager for Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Joint meeting of the Modern Vending and Tucker organizations in Modern's smartly
laid-out Record Department.
July, 1940
Clevelanders Play Good
Sam aritan to Parkers
Cleveland, Ohio.— Most parking lot
operators in the downtown district
reported slightly increased business
today as police continued to pass out
“ courtesy tickets” to motorists who
failed to park properly in metered
zones.
Almost unanimously the operators
predicted a large pickup as soon as
a strict enforcement program gets
under way. None would say they
anticipated raising their rates.
Parking congestion on Euclid and
Prospect avenues and E. Ninth street
has been “ greatly relieved” by the
meters, according to Capt. Kurt B.
Gloeckner of the Police Public Re
lations Bureau, who surveyed the
area this forenoon.
Capt. Gloeckner said apparently
the all-day parkers either have
placed their cars in parking lots or
left them at home. More rapid turn
over of cars was easily noticeable,
he said.
The “ courtesy tickets” warn the
motorists that a future violation will
invite two tickets. Unless there is a
second violation, the first will bring
no penalty.
Inauguration of the automatic
meters was not without its incidents.
The red flag popped up at a busy
Euclid avenue spot to mark the ex
piration of a nickel’s worth of park
ing time. It brought a mounted
policeman and a group of kibitzers to
the scene. The former had a hand
ful of tickets. The latter contained a
Good Samaritan.
“ Let’s save some fellow a ticket,
said the Samaritan and dropped a coin
in the hungry slot. The needle fle'v
back, giving the parker an hour of
grace. The policeman rode away to
the cheers of the onlookers.
Several downtown stores put into
effect a system to protect their cus
tomers. Doorman were supplied with
nickels. They kept a wary eye on
the customers’ cars and fed the coins
into the meters at the proper times.
They hadn’t figured out yet whethei
they were winners or losers in the
deal.
Dime Out of His Quarter
“ That lady always tips me a quar
ter for parking her car,” said one
downtown doorman. “ Today, I
to put two nickels into the parking
meter and I still get just a quarter.
Left to right: Tommy Tucker, Miss Schoenberg of Modern Vending, Amy Arnell, Tucker
songstress, Don Saxon, a W urlitzer Model 800, Jane and Sue Bailey, Johnny Ryan
and N at Cohn.
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out that Mr. --------- never gives me
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