COIN MACHINE REVIEW
April'1935
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National News Notes
A. L. Kropp of Meridian, Mis issippi,
the operator who won the Chenolet deliv.
ery edan given away at the Chicago how,
wa n't the only lucky fellow attending the
convention. Hundreds of prize were given
away, one of them a Rock·OIa Multi· elec·
tor phonograph which went to Mr. and
}lr. . M.
elch of Parker burg, We t
\ ·irginia. The Welches aid it wasn't a1\
luck in their case, however, a they car·
ried a rabbit' foot along to the show with
them.
A ampaign of location di play and
poster is planned by the Brunswick Rec·
ord Corporation to aid music operator.
Following the lead of the Dallas office of
the firm, demonstration recording rooms
have heen arranged for operators in the
ew York and Chicago offices of Bruns·
wick.
Dudley Lock Company, Chicago, ha a
new pick-proof lock operated by a four·
way key, and each lock carries a 100
Lloyd's policy that it is pick·proof.
dditional factory pace ha been taken
by J. H. Keeney & Company of Chicago a
a re ult of the demand for Quick ilver,
report Jack Keeney.
Larger quarter are the order of the day
for the Connecticut Amu ement Machine
Company, jobbers of WaterbLU'y, Conn.
George Pon er of
ewark,
.J., plans
to open distributing office in
ew York
ity in conjunction with hi
wark busi·
ness.
One of the many booster for Beacon,
the new toner game, is Dave Robbin of
Brooklyn.
One of the unique booths at the recent
_how was the Chic Sale headquarters and
hoard fence arrangement of the We tern
Equipment and Supply Company, headed
by JImmy Johnson.
peaking of the show, the automatic
hobby horse of the A.B.T. Manufacturing
ompany got a big play in the newspa per
carrying a load of pretty girls.
n old hand on a new job is J. O.
Bate. ale manager for Pace 1anufac·
turing Company and one of the leading
light at Pace's Race pre·convention party.
J. O. wa formerly with Caille Brother.
Re ponsibility for the proper display of
license on pin game and other amuse·
ment devices i placed on the shoulders of
the location owner in a bill introduced
at a pecial e ion of the Louisiana legi .
lature. pon or say it i an easier way of
checking up.
Enactment of a 3 per cent general man·
ufacturer . exci e tax and abolition of o·
called "nuisance" taxe are propo ed in a
bill introduced at Wa hington by R ep.
IcLeod of Iichigan.
o coin·operated amusement device of
any kind are permitted in Portugal, reports
Louis Brown, amusement park operator at
Li bon.
A bar specially for the convenience of
operators is featured in the new jobbing
e tablishment opened by H. H. Cohen of
the Ohio pecialty Company at 129 West
Parkway in Cincinnati.
. H. Hermann, well known Paris dis·
tributor, plan to open a ew York offce
to handle exports to France.
~ portland operator- in
ew York had
a big dinner party at the Casino de Paree
for member and their familie
'larch
12th.
French operator and jobbers are having
a time with thieve, what with the how·
room of 0 car Yeni in Marseilles and an
arcade on the Boulevard Clichy in Paris
being broken into recently.
Manufacturing of a new type pool table
de igned by Ben Mar hall is ca u ing the
branthing out of the Mar hall·Lemke di .
tributing firm of Detroit. They have ex·
panded to the third Roor of their pre ent
building.
Operator calling on the Pacific Amuse·
ment Manufacturing Company at the how
COAST SHOW
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which had the boys talking to themselve
la t year.
Advance information on the 1935 coast
how may be obtained from the exposition
committee at 1113 Venice Boulevard, Los
Angeles.
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enjoyed the privacy of PAMCO's airport
suite at the herman Hotel, with Fred
McClellan and hi staff showing off the
new game.
Bea utiful young women from the Pace
Company' office force served cocktails and
generally put the guests at their ease at
the merry pre·convention party of Pace's
Race at the Congress Hotel.
Popularity of automatic crane macllines
in France seem a ured for a long time
to come. The Paris police are considering
regulation for amu ement devices and
never hother a digger machine unless it
ha "dead" pots where candy or prizes
cannot be lifted hy the claw.
A recent ruling by the ew Jersey com·
missioner of state alcoholic beverage con·
trol that coin·operated machines are per-
missible in beverage places was enlarged
upon to include table tennis, checkers and
quoits. Cards are banned.
A new portland at 3315 South Main
treet in Houston, Texas, has been opened
by Rolfe tanley, who also has a jobbing
bu iness there.
The Acme Vending Company of New
York has added a midtown branch at ,wg
inth Avenue, according to Mac Perlman
and 01 Wohlman.
Among the many revenue·raising bills
hurriedly introduced in the New York
legislature was one providing for a pro-
hibitive tax on pinball games. It would
tax the games $50 each up to three on a
location, and from three to 40 machines
the rate would be 2000 a year additional.
Operators' as ociations were busy working
to prevent the passage of this unfair legis·
lation.
International Mutoscope R eel Company
has added 10,000 square feet of factory
space for the production of Checkers, Bill
Rabkin, president, announces.
A novel conte t has been arranged by
M. . Gis er of the Hercules Sales Or·
ganization of
ewark, N. J., in which
operators are invited to guess the number
of days it will take for a large shipment
of Red Cro s venders to reach Australia.
A cable from ydney recently ordered 100
of the e automatic merchandisers.
ugge tion by Alderman Elias J acobs of
ew York City of a lottery as a means of
raising fund to re tore teachers' salaries
to the 1932 level has met with the oppo i·
tion of the teachers.
The G. M. Laboratories, Inc., has en·
tered the pin game manufacturing field
with the production of Builder·Upper, a
new game with progres ive scoring and
colored gla a a cahinet feature.
Another new manufacturer is the E. R.
Henry Mfg. Co. of Buchanan, Mich., which
has taken s pace in the Treat Building for
production of a baseball game.
A vending device which sells four razor
blades for a dime and which may be ad·
justed to vend penny stick-gum is being
prepared for the market by the Redco
Products Corp. of La Cro se, Wi con in.
Walter Tra ch, head of the A. B. T.
Manufacturing Company, has left Chicago
for his annual winter vacation in Florida.
Babe Kaufman, the prominent lady job·
ber of
ew York, wa pre en ted with a
2000 check tlle other day as her share of
8000 won in a European lottery by her
76·year·old father, who gave the money
to his four children.
Congratulations are being extended to
H. A. Fabricant of the S. & F. Sales Co.
of Brooklyn and Mrs. Fabricant on the
birth of a son, Robert Benjamin Fabricant,
March 4th.
U e of metal di c not redeemable in
merchandi e for replay in amu ement
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