Coin Machine Journal

Issue: 1932 February

THE COIN M A C H I N E J O U R N A L
February, 1932
115
Q R e p ly
„To
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10 ttrs
The Coin Machine Journal,
205 West Wacker Drive,
Chicago, Illinois.
Gentlemen:
Please send me by return mail a sub­
scription blank and you can enter my
name on your mailing list. As I operate
machines in Virginia and North Carolina
I take the
but their customers
will not answer .their ads, so it does not
pay to waste time on them. Hoping to
hear from you and a booster for Better
Business, I remain
Yours truly,
Thomas J. Ryan.
Ed.—If our customers do not answer
their advertisements, let us know and
we’ll find out why.
The Coin Machine Journal,
205 West Wacker Drive,
Chicago, Illinois.
Gentlemen:
A fellow operator just whispered* the
good news to me and also slipped me
your address. He said it’s the only maga­
zine for us.
I ’m from Missouri. Slip me a copy.
I ’m not hard to convince.
Yours for success,
F. E. Boles.
Ed.— O . K. friend Boles. It’s in the mail.
Let us hear more from you.
The Coin Machine Journal,
205 West Wacker Drive,
Chicago, Illinois.
Gentlemen:
Please note that the Los Angeles Pub­
lic Library is ordering by contract two
copies of the Coin Machine Journal for
1932, instead of the one copy we are re­
ceiving for 1931.
Signed,
Serials Division.
Ed.-—Thanking you for your double sub­
scription, we might say that your order
constitutes a direct service to those opera­
tors in your city who are unable to sub­
scribe. ; .
:
January 30, 1932.
The Coin Machine Journal,
205 West Wacker Drive,
Chicago, Illinois.
Gentlemen:
On page 67 of .your Coin Machine
Journal, January issue, 1932, you have
a column, "Where Can I Buy It?” We
consider this column a great help to your
subscribers, and at the present time, we
want to get direct to the manufacturers
of the numerous Pin Machines, espe-
dally Baffle Ball, Sr., Baffle Ball, Jr.,
7
Cairo, Egypt
Spot A Ball, Comet Ball, Lucky Strike,
The Coin Machine Journal,
Superior Pool, etc.
205 West Wacker Drive,
Thanking you in advance for any as­
Chicago, Illinois*
sistance you can give us, we beg to re­
Gentlemen:
main
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Enclosed find a good looking Ameri­
Yours very truly,
one-dollar
H.
& can
D . Sales
Co. hill which I am glad to
exchange
with you for one year’s sub­
Ed.— You can reach the leading manu­
scription
to
your very interesting Coin
facturers in the business by writing to
Machine
Journal.
advertisers in this magazine.
Yours very truly,
L. J. A. Gilbert.
January 26, 1932.
Ed.—We’re
quite
willing
to make the ex­
The Coin Machine Journal,
change,
and
hope
that
your Egyptian
205 West Wacker Drive,
friends
think
as
highly
of
our magazine
Chicago, Illinois.
as you do.

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Gentlemen:
Dec. 21, 1931.
It might interest you to know that on
The Coin Machine Journal,
account of the write-up given John W .
205 West Wacker Drive,
Lindsley in the December issue of the
Chicago, Illinois.
Coin Machine Journal, Mr. Lindsley has
Gentlemen:
received as many as 11 letters from man­
This is to thank you for referring my
ufacturers of peanut and ball gum ma­
name to various firms that deal in Vend­
chines quoting prices.
ing Machines. This certainly has been
Also an offer from the Cameo Com­
a lot of help to me.
,
pany of two routes of candy machines
Your magazine will be gone over from
(free rental) which I am pleased to say
page to page for further assistance. It
he has taken over.
certainly is attractively gotten out. May
Yours truly,
it have the great success which I believe
M ilton M . Pearlman.
it merits. Best wishes.
Ed.—Glad to hear that this publicity
Yours very truly,
helped Mr. Lindsley. We wish him well.
F* W . Campbell*
Ed.—Thank you, we do our best.
The Coin Machine Journal,
205 West Wacker Drive,
Jan. 22, 1932.
Chicago, Illinois.
The Coin Machine Journal,
Gentlemen:
205 West Wacker Drive,
Received your Journal this A. M . and
Chicago, Illinois.
certainly want to compliment you on this
Gentlemen:
publication. It’s the best in our line
1 would like very much to know the
ever gotten out, and the jobber and man­
address of the Mutual Automatic Ma­
ufacturer should have no trouble selling
chine Co. I do not know what city they
their merchandise if mailed to the proper
are located in.
buyers and I am sure you have most of
W ill appreciate this information very
them on your list.
much.
I ’m getting out six new machines, pen­
Thanking you, 1 am
ny play and will be interested in adver­
Yours respectfully,
tising in your Journal. Please give a
Daniel Fountain.
little fellow a break. Don’t smother out
Ed.— Frankly, we do not know this ad­
the future. Help make him a bigger ad­
dress. If anyone has it will they please
vertiser in the Journal.
notify our office?
Respectfully,
O . A. W illiams.
TELEGRAM
Ed.— Thanks for your kind expression of
February 5, 1932*
goodwill. It is the policy of the Journal
The Coin Machine Journal,
to give its advertisers more for their
205 West Wacker Drive,
money than they can get elsewhere.
Chicago, Illinois.
That is why our growth has been un­
Gentlemen:
precedented in the history of operators*
Your cooperation would be appreciated
magazines.
on association matter.
*
M ilton M . Pearlman*
BA— The Coin Machine Journal will
give the operators association every co­
operation.
Let’s hear from YOU
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THE COIN M A C H I N E
116
Febrmryg 1939
JOURNAL
Thomas Watling, Pioneer in
Coin Machine Business
The Com Machine Journal,
205 West Wacker Drive,
Chicago, Illinois*
Gentlemen:
We are in due receipt of your letter
dated November 5th, together with the
sample copy of your magazine "The Coin
Machine Journal” adviced therein.
We have this day remitted you $2*00
by P. O . Money Order. Kindly send us
your magazine for one year (from cur­
rent number).
Thanking you for your service to as­
sist our further request.
Yours faithfully,
The Rational Trading Research, Japan.
Ed.— Thank you for your subscription.
You will find the advertisers in this
magazine fine people to do business with.
TF YOU have not already met Thomas
* Watling, founder and president of the
Watling Manufacturing Company of Chi­
cago, one of the largest companies of its
kind in the world, this is he. Be sure and
visit his booths, Nos. 13 and 14, at the Big
Show.
Mr. Watling started in the coin machine
business over forty-three years ago and dur­
ing this time has invented and manufactured
hundreds of coin-controlled mechanisms.
One of his outstanding successes has been
the Tom Thumb scale, the only springless
coin-operated scale in the world.
Mr. Watling and his five sons, John, Bill,
Albert, Walter and Bums, have built up an
enviable reputation for fair and square
dealing. ;:
; ; ' : ’ ;
,
The Coin Machine Journal,
205 West Wacker Drive,
Chicago*, Illinois.
Gentlemen:
If you have any concern that wants to
put out any new article or machines on
assignment, please send them our ad­
dress as we have plenty of territory and
plenty of good customers on our books,
who can use good merchandise and new
machines.
Very truly yours,
Harry H . Abrams.
Ed.— We have referred your, name to
several. Others please write this party*
The Cornitie-Hakanson Die-Casting Com*
pany have announced to manufacturers of
various products that they are equipped to
build vending machines that will vend any
article for which there might be a demand.
We’ll probably see many new machines out
before long*
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