Spotting the N. Y. Operators
By IRVING SHERMAN
"Are we going places? You bet w e
are! ", say the phonograph lads. They've
doubled the quarters of the Automatic
Music Operators' Association at 250
West 57th Street. Private offices for the
executives have been arranged, another
girl for the switchboard added and two
more outside men taken on. In one year
over 98 % of the phonograph operators
have joine d the Association and more
are coming in. Incidentally, Al Bloom
has been made office manager and
James Hicks, chief outside man.
Bert Lane, of Seaboard Sales, is a
local boy making good. Since leaving
George Ponser Bert has picked up a
trick or two about selling coin machines .
"You let the machine talk for itself,"
says Berl. "Halfway through you see the
operator bleary eyed from listening and
then you hop right over and close the
deal."
New York operators have been won-
dering what was holding up the Viva-
dou perfume machines. Investigation
disclosed that the laboratory was busy
straightening out mechanical wrinkles
and expects to have the machine ready
in another month.
Lou Rose is eyeing 'em again .. . a
sure sign that business isn't bad. One
of the real pioneers in the coin machine
business, Lou has been associated with
Billy Gibson, Benny Leonard, Abe Attel
and many others of the sport and fight
game at various times.
Martin Berger, the Clark Gable of the
cigarette crowd and talented president
of the CMA, is in Philadelphia for a
spell. Spellbinder, orator, executive and
good fellow all around . . . that's Ber-
ger to a T.
, Babe Kaufman is in the news again
. . . this time on· joining CMA. The
"Babe" is going in strong for cigarette
machines.
Irving Silverman, latest recruit of the
CMA, is a shooting double of Al Lip-
shay, assistant to Joe Fishman of the
Amalgamated Vending.
"Red " Johns on , cigarette operator, is
at the controls. "Boys," he says, "we're
out of gas and losing altitude fas t. Man
the parachutes! " The location: New Jer-
sey. The spot: About five thousand feet
up in the air. The plane starts to dive.
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"Mercy," shrieks a voice fumbling in the
plane. What happened? For the sequel
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month's column.
Back from sojourns in Florida, land of
the warming sun and hotter eyefuls
(California, please d on 't delete) oper-
ators are getting down to business.
Lee (Big Fellow) Rubinow gets sadder
and sadder as the Automatic Music
Operators' Association gets more power-
ful. Maybe it's because Lee feels that
after this there 's no m ore worlds to con-
quer. As president of the Association,
and its untiring organizer, Lee got a big
kick out of bringing order from chaos.
Did y ou know Harry A. Can Opstall is
a singer? Basso at that!
The New York World's Fair has every-
body excited. Gum, apple and cigar-
ette machines of sleek modern design
harmonizing with the motif of the Fair.
The boys are commenting on the
steady progress being made by Mike
Munves and his Acme Vending. Munves
recently took over the business from L.
Silverstein and Al Perlman.
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By HARRY BORTNICK
The m ost important affair of its kind
ever presented by the local a ssociation
will be the gala banquet at Benny The
Bum's , Philadelphia's m ost imposing
night club, on Sunda y , March 12th. At
this event all operators a nd their wives
will be present as well as leading exec-
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utives of all the manufacturers and dis-
tributors. Entertainment will be pre-
sented from all the clubs and theatres
in the city to make the banquet one long
to be remembered by operators in this
city.
At the banquet the newly elected offic-
ers will be inducted into office with ap-
propriate ceremonies, and while the en-
tertainment committee promises that
speeches will be held to a minimum,
the executives will be permitted to say
a few w ords.
Congratulations are due the enter-
ta inment committee for their efforts to
insure that everyone will have a delight-
ful evening. The committee members
are: N. Chodaker, chairman; David Kul-
la; Frank Engel; A. Foster; A. Spiegal
and Frank Urban.
The entire membership of the "Organ-
ization is now affiliated with the state
organization.
The membership has been consider-
ably increased and new members are:
A. Foster, J. Gillespie, B. Jaffee, H. Mar-
goiis, C . Moye, H. J. Nawman, B. K. Selt-
zer, W. Weinstein, H. and J. Zazlow, A .
Benoff, H. Rickhardt, S. Glassman, J. L.
Harm and N. Jaffee, Rqy Laundrey, Elias
Mendelsohn and L. Brown, George Sil-
verman, S. Snyderman, J. Silverman.
With this increase in membership the
Associa tion claims that it has practically
every machine in the dty bearing an
Association label. In only a few years
this organizati on has become one of the
most p owerful and influential operators'
groups in the entire country.
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