COIN MACHINE REVIEW
RAPS and RHAPSODIES
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EDITOR, THE REVIEW:
When in heaven's name will manufac·
turer cease to layout broad promises
about the unheard-of profits this and that
machine will make. It's getting so that all
of the ads look alike.
A Utah Reader.
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EDITOR, THE REVIEW:
Thanks for the sample copy of your pub-
lication received this morning. Here's two
bucks. ee that it keep coming for the
next three year. Looking through the col·
umns I was truck with the amount of
news matter carried. It's a swell little
magazine.
A New Orleans Subscriber.
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EDITOR, THE REVIEW:
I, for one, don't think the coin machine
publications are in sympathy with the op·
era tor. Every issue is filled with blah,
blah, blah. Why can't we have more fea·
ture articles that would aid an operator in
his busines . Look at the trade papers in
other fields. Their pages are loaded with
ound advice fol' their readers.
1 Would Like to Know.
Editor's Note: Tut, tut. You haven't been
reading THE REVIEW.
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EDITOR, THE REVIEW:
Here's one operator who' going to keep
hi s eye on THE REVIEW from now on. Un·
til I picked up a copy of your February
is ue at the show, I hadn't seen THE
REVIEW since it wa printed on pulp
paper way back. I surely want to compli-
ment you on the progres of your maga·
zine, and say, let's have more stories like
Boomer Bill in the March number.
St. Louis Operator.
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EDITOR, THE REVIEW:
Please let me know when we can use
your legal file again. It helped us out a
lot on a previous case. and now a situation
has ari en in a nearby town where your
a i tance will be appreciated. By the way,
when are we going to have more of those
article by George Maple? They're the real
thing.
Sacramento Reader.
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EDITOR, THE REVIEW:
Have just read tbrough your MJlrch
i ue and must say I enjoyed it. I have a
string of cigarette machines here in Albu·
querque, and perhap that's wby I like to
read Art Weld's column. Anyhow, that
fellow certainly can make words do tricks!
Let me know when my subscription runs
out; I don't want to mi s an issue.
Smoke Pack Fan.
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EDITOR, THE REVIEW:
How about news of something be ides
marble game? We used to get lots of
items on the vending field. I'll be glad to
send in some notes from time to time, and
I'm sure the re t of the boys would like
to write in if they though you'd print them.
How about it?
W.v.M. O.A. Member.
Editor's Note: THE R EVIEW will welcome
any new item
ent in by reader and
particularly invites association publicity
chairmen to send in notes of activitie
regularly.
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QUICK , HENRY, THE FLIT !
Ft. Braggs, California,
march 18-she 1935
mR. paul VIackIord,
Boss of Coin machine Review,
1113 venice boulevard,
Los ANgeles, california.
My fren Paul;
maybe you know already i been pretty good
rpinter for much Years and i know how
to print plenty magazines. One t ime i
been good printer in texas and I do plenty
good. i see your magazine but she no geot
for coin mashines boys of ft. Bragg. They
say we lika you print us goot coin mashine
magazine. i ay ok boy i do dat; 0 pretty
oon you see plenty goot coin rna hine
magazine. I been goot business man long
time and i know magazines like everting.
i show you plenty adds in big ma hine
paper soon i start up.. pretty oon you
hear plenty fron Ft. bragg man, he plenty
smart and makea big hit with coin mashine
boys. maybe I come to los Angele ome·
time, I look you upm maybe, anyway i get
paper going then i come see you.
your frien
Ft. bragg prtinet
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N ashville Judge
Approves Games
A HVILLE-Declaring that marble
game are kill devices and are no more
gambling devices than license plates, Crimi·
nal Judge Charles Gilbert directed a jury
to return a veI;.dict of not guilty in the
ca e of Dr. Martin 1. Williams, drug store
proprietor charged with operating a marble
game in his store.
J udge Gilbert ruled that the game was
more of skill than of chance and stated
that there was no evidence of gambling.
The machine was reported to have paid
off in slugs good for replays but not re-
deemable in money or merchandise.
The game remained in custody of the
as i tant attorney-general along with sev·
eral other machines taken in a recent
roundup.
Trials of five other men are pending and
may be called before the prosecutor goes
to the State upreme Court.
April 1935
BOOMER BILL
(Continued from page 56)
pard, here's your share for the first hour,"
an wered Bill. "What do you say we just
leave it there for a few days, anyhow?"
Well, the surprised manager didn't think
so much of a few nickels, but then he
knew this hadn't been going on for many
minutes. He made a note of nearly a dol·
lar in nickels as he handed them over to
the cashier and then turned back to Bill:
"You mean we get half of what it takes
in? That's different, I suppose."
By the time Bill had explained the set·
up fully and told him about keeping track
of the pay·outs for prize scores, the man·
ager WilS far from indifferent to the prop·
osition and even volunteered:
"Do you have any more of those games?
I could fix it for you to put one up in the
lobby if I ge\ the same percentage."
Bill told him he guesesd it could be ar-
ranged and he went back to the storeroo~
and pick out another model to place 10
a pot in the lounge room.
"Ju t like that!" he chirped at me and
winked as we put the second machine in
its place. " ow let's go out tonight and
find a few more place as good as these,
and I?efo~~ you know it we'll be out of
machIne.
How Bill ever recalled the beer parlor
he had visited with J erry in his early
morning roundlO was beyond me, but soon
we were there and this cocky Andrews guy
was chumming with the proprietor like a
long·lost friend.
"Pete," Bill was saying, "thi 's my part·
ner, kegg. He sure missed out on a swell
time here la t night, didn't he? And
wa n't that a honey of a babe I had with
me? I don't like to brag, but she's a high.
class dancer, that Jerry, and she 'n' me's
like that! But say, how about us bringing
in a new·fangled kind of game that'll make
you a little money and put life in this
place? Okeh? We'll bring one around
tomorrow!"
We had a few beers there before shov-
ing off for the next place, where a little
poker game was in progress. Bill couldn't
get his mind on his original purpose in
coming here, so his line fell rather Bat
with the owner and we decided to let the
matter ride until the next day while we
sat in on this friendly game of cards.
Bill was in his glory now, and all memo
ories faded as he started drawing his hand.
He looked for all the world like a throw-
back to one of those old timer who plied
his sharp profession among the river boat
passengers in days gone by.
I sat tight and wondered what the devil
we were in for now.
(Continued next month)
WATCH DOG
OF TOUR CASH BOX
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A. B. T.'s New Visible
COIN CHUTE
Florida Operators
Form State Group
ORLANDO Fla.-Steps for the forma·
tion of a stat~ association of coin machine
operators were taken at an organization
meeting held at the San Juan Hotel here
March 14th.
D. W. Donohue of the National A ocia·
tion of Coin·Operated Machine Manufac·
turer wa present to assist in the plans.
No . 30
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N one B etter
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PAULA. LAYMON, Jobber
Quality Coin-Operated Machines
1 5 03 W. Pico St.
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