Gay Games Offers
New Punchboard Line
MUNCIE, Inc.-Announcement of the
addition of a new punchboard department
to include a full line of penny salesboards
and operators' money boards, has been an-
nounced by Guy E. Noel, president of Gay
Games, Inc., ticket and jar deal manufac-
turers.
Firm was organized in 1933 and has
been servicing jobbers and operators ever
since on a nationwide scale with factory
representatives in almost every state in the
union. The famous E-Z Pickin' line of
jar games was originated here.
Said to permit considerable savings, the
new punchboard department, which will
add 20 to 40 more people in production
capacities alone to the present personnel
of nearly 150 and which will work in con-
junction with previous equipment which is
now producing a full line of tip ticket
games, makes it possible for customers to
secure all punchboard and coupon require-
ments from the same source.
Fine reports have been received by
executives of the firm on acceptance of
initial orders. Line was shown in Los An-
geles at the recent Western States Coin
Machine Convention.
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THE CHRISTMAS SEASON-GIFTS FOR
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- - - -By B. K. ANDERSON - - - -
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (RC)-The Yule
log is being carried to the fire. As Novem-
ber became December a very heavy early
snow set in motion the Christmas guessing
and wishful thinking. In this particular
case, of course, the heads of operating and
distributing firms take on the cloak of
St. Nick and the
presents are usually
in the form of bon-
uses. More often
than not the size of
these gifts are
measured by the
success of the firms
during the past
y,ear; and this year
having been a very
good one from all
angles, bonuses are
expected to set an
all-time record.
And so the guess-
8. K. A nderson
ing goes on. For
some reason or other coin machine receipts
have, of late, been far in excess of expecta-
tions. It may be that more money is being
given or that a larger number of persons
have more time for the machines. At any
rate operators have grown to expect good
months in this period and have not been
disappointed.
Carl Hoelzel, head man at United
Amusement Co., has just returned from a
trip to New York, Chicago and Min-
neapolis. Carl flew most of the way and
when he returned home explained his trip
with: "We operators and distributors in
this section of the country are constantly
hearing rumors about what operators are
doing in other parts of the country; about
new machines that have or are coming out
that are going to swing a lot of weight.
Never a day goes by but what you hear a
lot of this rumor. So, once every few
months, I pack my bags and make the
circuit. It's always the same story when I
.get back-We're getting everything they're
getting anywhere else, and just as soon."
Hoelzel, however, is not slow to admit
that in this present Midwest boom, variety
of equipment has emphasized its impor-
tance. His own show and stock rooms
testify to that. A recent inventory showed
that over three thousand pieces of widely
varied equipment are gathered under
United's roof.
The boys at Confection Cabinet took
time off to pass along some similar advice.
At the threshold of their biggest season
of the year they pointed to the advantages
of frequent shifting of types of candy bars
in maintaining these vendor's maximum
volume. Specialists in this field, with ma-
chines in theatre lobbies, this firm advises
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that a complete change of merchandise be
made at least every two or three months.
Also, it's the heavy, highly nutritious bars
that do the big winter business, they say.
R. W. Webb, head of General Vendor
Mfg. Co., and George Atkeson, salesmana-
ger of the firm, got off to a very pleasant
start on the Yule season with a trip to
Cincinnati to the Bottler's Convention.
They report that the bottle manufacturers
made much to-do over the coin controlled
beverage vendors displayed there.
According to Webb, "There are very few
marketers in the country now who haven't
or aren't considering offering their product
to the customer via the coin machine. At
this recent show the booths displaying such
machines held a constant large audience.
Designers of the bottles assured us that
word has come down to standardize the
size and shape of all containers so they
may accommodate this type of merchan-
dising. In fact quite a few sales were made
right off the floor of the show. The atten-
tion they are now giving coin machines is
terrific!"
Wallace Bryant, recently returned from
California and formerly on the staff at
both United and Central, has gained him-
self a new job for Christmas, returning to
Central Distributing Co. where he joins a
former team-mate, "Dutch" Darkow.
Old St. Nick answered Messrs. Mason
and Crummitt's Christmas letter early. Still
several weeks before the fateful day, this
operating and distributing center bears all
the appearance of the morning of Decem-
ber 25th. The wide sidewalk fronting Cen-
tral for days has been covered with half.
opened boxes and inside the expanded
quarters of this firm is jammed. "It's the
Christmas rush," they explain; all of which
speaks well for local operators who are
taking advantage of the season to present
themselves with large orders of new equip-
ment.
The operator fraternity as a whole, ush-
ered in the season with a stag dinner at the
Hotel Muehlbach, November 22. The early
part of the evening was given over to a
business meeting which was followed by a
dinner and card party. Held in this hotel's
famed Pompeiian Room, the affair was at-
tended by almost full membership of Hob-
bies, Inc., and was pronounced the most
successful event of its kind in the history
of this operators' organization.
With a Christmas front already beckon-
ing to passers-by, the Mo-Kan Music Co. is
making a strong bid to local customers to
help them furnish a finishing touch to their
holiday gatherin11:s with a rented automatic
music machine. Nick Fasci and Abe Van-
derwood are asking Santa only that he keep
sending them the very popular records,
which have been coming out lately in large
numbers, so that their customers can make
others happy by using them for Christmas
gifts.
As far as Midwest operators are con-
cerned, coin machine manufacturers have
also donned the red and white robes and
snowy whiskers. The recent flood of war-
theme machines, both tables and ray-guns,
has greatly stimulated play in locations
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