Around Northern
Colifornio
By DOROTHY PETSCH
SAN FRANCISCO (RC)-The scram-
ble for space on Treasure Island is only
one evidence that the 1939 Western Fair
is a success. 145,000 attended the first
two days, with the toll gate chalking up
500,000 by the end of the first week. Eat-
ing places still prove to be the main
s hort suit, and it is for the building of
new restaurants and dinner-dance-
with-floor-show pavilions that most of
the petitions have been received. In the
meantime, Walter Oswald's candy and
nut vending machines have been com-
ing in for an overwhelming amount of
play. Walter rarely leaves the island
until long after closing time at ten
o'clock at night, and services his ma-
chines several times a day. • Popular
opinion favors the vending machines
RECONDITIONED ond
GUARANTEED GAMES
IS WHAT WE SELL!
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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
Fairgrounds .................. ................ .......... $60.09
Fleetwoods ............................................ 55.00
One-Two-Threes, rebuilt ...................... 80.00
Golden Wheels ...................................... 25.00
Fotofinishes ............................................ 30 .00
Turf Chomps ........................ .................. 20 .00
Mogic: Roll .............................................. 20.00
Snac:'5 .................................................... 17. 50
Stewart Mc:Guires, Brand new ............ 10. 50
Tallies .................................................... 17. 50
Sparks, with jac:k•pot .......................... 22.50
Kounter King .......................................... 10.00
We also carry a complete stock of
rebuilt slot machines. A post card or
letter will bring you lowest prices
possible.
WOLF SALES CO., INC.
1103 GOLDEN GATE AVENUE
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
more than ever, and many a Fair visitor
has expressed the wish that an Automat
could be e stablished and thereby do
away with the long queques outside res-
taurants and cafeterias. All additional
building is taking place after midnight,
and fair officials announce that the eat-
ing problem will be well in hand in less
than a month.
Wolf Reiwitz, owner of Wolf Sales, is
contemplating a move during this
month. This will be the third since W elf
entered the vending machine business
a few years ago; each time has meant
larger quarters . Wolf 's present e stab-
lishment includes four adjoining offices,
each one given over to a separat ~
phase of his business, but Wolf has no
privacy for himself or his business con-
ferences and so he plans to take over
and remodel a two-story building in the
neighborhood. Here the entire second
floor will be used for business offices,
conference rooms, and storage.
Lou Welcher, of Advance Automatic,
has returned to his San Francisco fold
after wandering about the country in
search of winter fun. He find s business
in very fine shape with brisk buying in
the game field. For the first part of the
month nothing could touch Chubbies.
Every operator who came in wanted
them, and· shipments vanished as fast
as they arrived. Keeney's Pot Shot and
Genco's Punch-A-Ball has come to the
fore this week. The most consistent
money-maker, however, in Lou's opin-
ion, is Mills' Vest Pocket Bells. It's good
today and it will be good in ten years ,
he says.
Heine Grusenmeyer has been reward-
ed for good behavior during Lou's
absence and been sent on a vacation to
the South.
Ann Mandel's favorite is her radio
lamp. Her bowling pin cocktail shakers
are being placed in all the bowling al-
leys in San Francisco this month. Of
late she has had so many rush orders
that she can't get home in time to per-
form the duties of a good wife and when
she does arrive her husband is staving
off starvation by gnawing on a bread
crus.t. Her aide-de-camp of late is a
hairy youth resembling the old bushmen
"BANDY" Is The Word • • • •
for the service that the Lou Wolcher Company is
always ready to give. With unequalled railroad and
shipping services available, any order may be filled
immediately from our large stock of coin machine
equipment. Foreign operators: Use our cable address,
"PIN GAME."
NEW EQUIPMENT ...
USED EQUIPMENT . ..
All the latest. If we don't have it
we can get it for you on short
notice. Let us know your needs,
we guarantee satisfaction.
of every type, completely recon-
ditioned and ready for locations.
Complete variety of all types of
equipment.
The LOU WOLCHER COMPANY
(ADVANCE AUTOMATIC SALES CO. )
1021 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco
of Australia. Ann says his name was
Tony Matulich before the 49'er celebra-
tion for the Fair came along and then
he was so proud of the growth he could
raise that he couldn't bear shaving it
off. Operators have learned to leave
their small children at home when they
come to the Mandel establishment for
one Matulick glance is enough to give
the kiddies nightmares for a week.
Golden Gate Novelty has renovated
its offices this month and dressed-up its
s how-room.
March 25 will find the docks of the
Matson Line in San Francisco lined with
tearful girls a s Art (Heartthrob) Brant
sails for Australia. Art has been inter-
ested in the exporting trade for many
years and has built up a successful
business in the South Seas and Aus-
tralia. There are many problems there
which operators on the mainland here
do not encounter and Art would like to
take a first-hand look at them. His stay
will be indefinite.
John C . Dorser, owner of the Dorser
Music Co. in Fresno, purchased the first
1939 Seeburg from the offices of the E.
T. Mape Co. Vance Mape thinks this
only natural since Dorser is the oldest
phonograph man in California.
Johnny Ruggiero took his wife on a
week's vacation the first part of March.
This is the first real vacation they have
had together and they decided to spend
it quietly in the country.
Jack Douglas and his wife visited the
Fair in San Francisco this month and
purchased several new Rock-Olas for
their Nevada Novelty Co. The Douglases
make their headquarters in Sparks, Ne-
vada, and bring the news that business
is booming over there.
J. A. Rozis, of Vallejo, has organized
a new company this m onth which will
be known as the Modern Vending Ser-
vice. The company n ot only sports a
new car, but will increase its operating
service in the field of cigarette, candy,
and games.
Visitors in town are becoming more
numerous since operators can use the
excuse of business to get d own to view
the Fair, or vice versa. This month
brought E. W . Ramsey and his wife from
Marysville for small counter games and
supplies, D. A. Woolsey from Stockton
Tommy Gion and Frank Marty frorr{
San Jose, A. Berman fr om San Luis
Obispo, S. R. Anderson from Santa Rosa
and S. Enea of Pittsburg all for counte;
and pin games. Floyd Knudson, of Fres-
no, is planning on enlarging his music
route to include table games and made
a large purchase of the latter. Gus Jen-
sen, of Eureka, b ought $3000 w orth of
nut and almond vending machines. W .
D. Tanner of Fresno and J. Arnold of Los
Angeles b ought peanut m a chines and
table games.
Mrs. Vernon Meeker bought some ma-
chines and supplies for her husband's
Santa Rosa route. Fred McNeil invested
in 100 Viking Triplets for his Bakersfield
locations. Ed Tarkasian loaded up with
candy and cigarette machines for his
new Fresno route. Sid Simpson added
some new candy, cigarette, and candy
machines to his large San Jose business.
Amos Branscomb visited the Bay area
from Eureka and took back supplies for
his ca ndy and nut machines. R. W .
White bought new slots for his Cuper-
tino locations.
In fact it looks as though . ..lmsiness
around the Bay district is ov~•J he Win-
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