into ice cream parlors, especially in the
upper .Bronx-an increase, estimated to be
about 35% greater over the figure for '38.
All of these locations, formerly being out
of the ken of phonograph stops are now
just the place for them. In addition, many
taverns that heretofore used small orches-
tras and blue singers have decided that it
would be more profitable to get a machine
instead.
Mike Lascari of the CMA, the man who
seldom speaks, is on record with the state-
ment that the cigarette operators are tak-
ing the tax business too seriously .. Mi½e's
view is to the effect that at the retail price,
retailers will find the sale of over-the-
counter cigarettes a nuisance and more
machines will be used.
♦
Robbins Says Pencil
Vendor Is Success
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Dave Robbins, of
D. Robbins and Company, reports that the
new 5 Cent Profit Sharing Pencil Vendor
is a big success. "Since announcing our
new vendor we have received orders from
more than 20 different states," Robbins
states. "The machine is profitable to oper-
ate either as a straight merchandiser or as
a trade stimulator.
"Libraries and schools are excellent loca-
tions for the machine," he points out, "and
both players and location owners are
pleased with the 100 per cent value given
for each nickel."
The Robbins Company supplies opera-
tors with the finest quality lead pencils with
gilt tip and erasers at $1.25 per gross. ♦
* * •
A tactful girl can get orchids without
half crying.
COIN OPERATORS
ECONOMY EXTENDS ITS THANKS
TO YOU, FOR YOUR ENTHUSIAS-
TIC RECEPTION OF THEIR PRO-
DUCTS LISTED BELOW:
#25 Small Tool Box
#30 Large T~ol Box
#35 ID inch Request Record
Case
#40 12 inch Record Case
#50 Cigarette Carrying Case
#60 Wood Record Carrying
Case
# 65 Fibre Record Carrying
Case
#70 Candy and Gum Carrying
Case
#75 Illuminated Bumper Grille
#75"G" Illuminated Bar Grille
#80 Nut Carrying Case
#85 Nut Carrying Case (Dual
Comp.)
#90 8 inch Speaker Cabinet
# 100 8 inch Economy P. M.
~peaker
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HIGHEST QUALITY -
LOWEST PRICES -
FINEST WORKMANSHIP -
Distributors Wanted
Wr ite Direct To
ECONOMY
Productio.n Company
M ANUFACTURERS OF WOOD-FIBRE &
METAL PRODUCTS
20 BANK ST.
PHILA., PA.
Operating Help
in Automat Pal
with
JOHN G.
WRIGHT
HOUSTON (RC)-Mrs. J. W. Smalley,
who is recovering from a major operation,
visited her husband in Houston the third
week in June. She returned to Dallas to
remain under a doctor's care until com-
pletely recovered. Smalley is with Electro
Ball Company in Houston.
A. H. Shannon returned from Georgia
June 22nd. He attended the funeral of his
sister's husband there.
A group of Houston music ops and their
friends went deep sea fishing Saturday,
June 17th. They left in the wee hours of
the morning on the Jane B., a fifty-foot
boat from Freeport, and returned late at
night with a surprisingly large catch and
not nearly as many seasick victims as had
been expected. The trip was arranged by
F. S. Clancy and W. A. Niemackl, presi-
dent and secretary respectively of Houston
Music Operators' Association.
C. R. Brewer, Seeburg service man, spent
a week in Houston making the rounds of
different South Texas Ops.
J. W. McConnell was appointed manager
of the Houston Branch of Decca Distri-
buting Corporation about the middle of
June and assumed his duties immediately.
His territory includes, in addition to Hous-
ton and nearby towns, the South Texas
cities of Beaumont, Galveston, Orange, Port
Arthur, ano thers. McConnell came to
Houston from Atlanta, Ga. and has had
many years experience in record sales and
distributing.
Miss Jessie Mae Sailor is now secretary
of Bickley Distributing Company.
Miss
Ruth Hodges who held the position for
several years resigned early in June.
♦
CHICAGO-"Pal" is the name of a
new vending machine operator's service kit
being offered by the Automatic Games.
"Pal" holds four or more five-pound con-
tainers of merchandise and has compart-
ment for tools, cleaner and money. The con-
tainers have pouring spouts and the mer-
chandise is kept clean and fresh at all
times. The service kit is priced surprisingly
low and operators may add to the number
of containers by hooking on additional con-
.tainers over the edge of the stand carrier.
♦
Veteran Subscriber
Passes at 88
TEMPLE, TEXAS (R.C.)-J. C. Alsup,
Sr., of Little River, pioneer resident of
Texas and one of the oldest subscribers to
Corn MACHINE REVIEW, died Thursday
morning, June 15th, at the age of eighty-
eight.
Alsup taught school in Texas for forty
years during which he missed only one day.
He was never a professional politician but
was personally acquainted with every Gov-
ernor of Texas for the past fifty years and
close friends of several of them including
Hogg, Culberson, Miriam A. and James E.
Ferguson. His wife, Martha Jane, eighty-
six, and nine children survive. His was the
first death in the family.
Always progressive, he took a great in-
terest in coin operated equipment and be-
lieved that the industry was only in its
infancy. Once when insisting that a friend
of his, a merchant in a small town, buy
some vending machines he predicted that
the day was not far off when the average
store would be operated altogether with
automatic machines.
♦
GOOD VALUES
1
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The president called his office manager in
and thrust a letter under his nose.
"Look at that! I thought I told you to
engage a new stenographer on the basis of
her grammar?"
The office manager looked startled.
"Grammar? I thought you said glamor."
Attehtich
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Here are
Bert Perkins Keeps
Busy at Bally
CHICAGO-Bert "Perk" Perkins finds
the Bally Manufacturing Company one of
the busiest places he ever worked, accord-
ing to reports coming from this newly ap-
pointed official of the Bally Bell Division.
Hundreds of congratulatory letters and
telegrams have been mixed in with the
orders that "Perk" has been handling ,ince
his arrival at Bally. Perkins has many
friends in the business and is showing good
results in increased production, officials
♦
state.
17
50 Recondi•
tioned EVER•
READY 4•
Col. 10 Nut
& Confect ion
Vendors.
ONLY . . • .
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15 or morel
SAMPLE $6.50 •
. $ 250 BUYS ENTIRE 5 0 MACHIN ES
ROWE
ARISTOCRAT
6-column slug proof
15c Cigarette Ma•
chines. Recondi-
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Sampl e Mach in e ,
$ 18.50 . Floor Stand ,
$3 .00 . Equ i pp e d
w ith 20c Coin Slot;
$2. 00 Extra .
TERMS : 1/3 Depos•
it , Bal . C .O . D.
D. ROBBINS & CO.
1141 , R, De Kalb Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.
VENDING
MACHINE OPERATORS
FO R FREE SAM PLES A ND PRICES ON O UR NEW
PEANUT- SHAPED CHEWING GUM
Will vend in any peanut vending machine
A fast seller-people buy it because they like it
U. G. GRANDBOIS CO ., KALAMAZOO , MICHIGAN
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