The
COIN MACHINE
JOURNAL
The National Business Paper of the Coin Machine Industry
Vol. 2, No. 4
A pril, 1932
C 0 N T E N T S
Would you believe it? Forty years
ago we had fortune telling ticket
scales. Some of the oldfimers
were operated with a niclcle and
made as high as $100 a day* You
can find out more about old time
scales than you ever knew before
by reading the article on page 11 .
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Looking Back at the Old Time Scales.......... ..................... •.............. 11
By Drury Lane
New C. M. M. A . A . Dues Justifie d..... .......... ............................... 18
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W arm er W eather W ill W oo Operators to Open Spaces........ ..... 19
Bankruptcy Defined ................. .
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By Robert K. Gibbs
If you are inclined to go after
locations on a commission basis,
read the enlightening article on
Sliding Back the Years of Baseball. ................... .:...................... . 38
page 58. Walker believes com
Nobody Ever Won a Price W a r.......... ............... .............................. 58
By Horace Walker
mission cutting operators usually
go bankrupt, but then you can
re]ad all about that on page 29.
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Be sure and get ahold of the May
issue of the Coin Machine Journal.
Every possible outdoor coin ma
FEATURES
chine activity will come in for an
Editorial Comment ................. 21
New Machines ........................ 32
annual once over.
Patents ...................................... 85
Cheers for the Roboteers......... 99
Pat on the Mike........................ 45
Trading P ost............................ 97
D. DOLLNIG, Business Manaqer
Editorial, Robert K. Gibbs
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Advertising, Charles F. Stille
Eastern Representative— H. S. Durland, 61 Hinsdale Place, Newark, New Jersey. .
Phone BRanchbrook 3-2404
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