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SELL MILLS
PHONOS
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Coast;
C . H elm zone manager for
Madsen is appointe d .
SAN· FRANCISCO.-C. C. H elm who is
credited by the Mills Novelty Co.' as one
of its most capable field representatives
has established headquarters here as zon~
manager in charge of sales of the Do Re
Mi phonograph. He will also supervise
sales of Mills sC:l.les and ice cre3m equip-
ment.
Francis M. Madsen. for 22 years associ-
ated with th e WurIitzer organization , ha s
been appointed as a member of the Mills
sales forc e with hi s offices at 125 Hyde
street, San Fl·ancisco.
Ellsw()rth Lucore i,s now in active charge
of P:lCific So uthwest sales as district mana-
ger with headquarters in Los Angeles.
NEW OFFICE POPULAR
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Two d em o nstration rooms in
Brunswick's headquarters.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Phonograph oper-
ators welcomed the news that the Bruns-
wick-Columbia record offices here had been
moved to a more convenient location on
Ninth Street, where more adequate parking
facilities are available.
Fred F. Berry, branch manager, an-
nounces that two test rooms have been
equipped there for the use of operators.
ON THE GO
ALAMEDA, Calif.-One of the busiest
fellows in the business is Charlie Ward
sales representative for the Capehart Corp.:
who returned from a highly successful sales
trip North and on the same day left for
Monterey to take another order for the
• new 1936 Capeharts.
Ward reports that the new features of
the 1936 model Capehart are winning a lot
of old operators and a number of new ones.
HEAVY SEASON
SAN FRANCISCO.-Lin Jones, manager
of the Golden Gate Music Co. ' of this
city, one of the largest and oldest phono-
graph operators in this territory, is k eeping
busy th ese days during a heavy season of
play on the music boxes. The Golden
Gate Music Co., an offshoot of the well
known Standard Music Co., has a large
string of Gabel equipment in operation
and has installations on most of the San
Francisco bay ferry boats. Jones reports
that th e phon os on the ferries have quite
a time to run yet before the new bridges
interfere.
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Steve Doubles His
Phono Operations I
THIS
a utomatic
phonograph
b us i n ess is gett i ng to b e qu ite
t h e t hin g, if y o u h a ppen to sh are
t h e trem endous enthus ias m of
Steve Mo o r e, t h e am ia b l e opera-
tor of C la remont, C a l if., who
unti l recent l y h ad one m ac h i ne .
Steve sou nds w ar n i ng t o ot he r
Southern C a lifornia m usic op e ra-
tors to watch hi s s moke i n t he
ph ono f ield , a s ev idenced by th e
f oll owi n g wi re he d i sp atched re-
cen t iy t o o n e of t h e manu f act-
urers' representat i v es:
" HAVE DE C IDED TO DOU-
BLE MY PHONOGRAPH OPER-
ATIONS IMMEDIATELY STOP
S HIP ME ANOTHER ONE !"
KING VISITS SEEBURG
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I ndiana ope r a t or is v eteran
i n fie'l d of a u to m a t i c m us ic .
CHICAGO.-Carl King of Ellwood, In·
diana, was a visitor at the plant of the
J. P. Seeburg Corp. here last week, and
the veteran music operator Was highly en-
thusiastic over the increasing popularity
of coin-operated phonographs. He was defi-
nite in his predi ction that mu sic operating
has only scra tched the surface.
When Earl Holland, sales manager of
th e Seeburg phonograph division showed
King the new 1936 Symphonolas, the genial
Hoosier's first words were "How fast can
you ship 'em to Elwood, Indian a?"
As a veteran of many years in the music
field, King has had innumerable experi-
ences in operating automatic phonographs.
He has been a See burg operator for years
and on his visit here was particularly en-
thused over the idea of Seeburg offering
four different 1936 models for specific
classifications of locations.
CAMPBELLS COMING!
KAGE PROMOTED .
LOS ANGELES.-Johnny Kage, service
man and general assistant to Bill Simm'ons
Wurlitzer factory representative, at the Lo~
Angeles office for the past several months,
has been promoted to the position of servo
ice instructor in the Pacific Northwest ter-
ritory. AI Leigh succeeds Kage, who left
for the north February 22nd.
Stanley Turner continues in general
charge of service instruction in the western
territory, concentrating his travels in Cali·
fornia, Arizona, Nevada and the Rocky
Mountain district.
Welcome H. Kozel, Villa Park, III.
LOS ANGELES.-That old Scottish reo
frain abo!.!t "The Campbells Are Coming"
is now passe. They already have arrived-
at least the newest and most important ad-
dition to the elan. His name is Charles
Jr., born February 15th, and his dad is
with the record department of the Ll!o J.
Meyberg Co. here.
FOUND . .. ONE HAT
LOS ANGELES.- I£ the Los Angeles
phonograph operator who left his hat in
Agua Caliente, Mexico, on February 23rd
will call at 1121 Venice Boulevard he can
get the hat with011t paying any reward.
THESE WURLITZER.SIMPLEX
FACTORY REPRESENTATIVES WILL
HANDLE YOUR MUSIC REQUIREMENTS
W . E . SIMMONS
1121 Venice Blvd.
Phone EXposition 5113
Los Angeles, Calif.
California
Nevada
Arizona
TOO SUGGESTIVE
SAN FRANCISCO.- Phonograph opera·
tors here are getting quite a kick out of
the predicament of J. W. Dyer, who oper·
ates music boxes in some of the choice
spots on the Embarcadero, San Francisco's
waterfront.
One of Dyer's location owners asked him
to remove the Sweet Violet Boys discs from
the phonograph because "they are too sug·
gestive and my patrons mig,ht ,take offense!"
FRED FIELDS
11233 Phinney Ave.
Seattle, Wash.
READY FOR SUMMER
R. Q . K~ER
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif.-C. W.
Clegg, Simplex operator ' here, has just
received another shipment of phonographs
in readiness for a real spring and summer
beach business . :
c/ o Shirley-Savoy Hot el
Denver, Colo.
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Washington
Or egon
Idaho
Western Montana.
Eastern Montana.
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
Wonder what T. 1. KickIer, Quincy, III.
has on his mind?
Here's one from R. B. Gibout, Menomi·
nee, Michigan.
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