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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
CUPID CALLS COINMEN
"TUXEDO
JUNCTION" BOWLS OPS OVER
ROCK.OLA THRILLS NORTHWEST OPS
WOODS BUYS PLANE TO COVER LOCATIONS
By Louis Karnofsky
Now take it easy, pal; that loud re-
verberation you just heard wasn't an earth-
quake; no, it wasn't even a tidal wave or
a heavy blizzard. It was just the startled
reaction of a startled Coin Row over our
last month's exclusive on "Mr. X goes to
town-or tries to." One dumbfounded op-
erator was so amazed by our revelations
that he got in touch with no less than 35
coinmen in the space of a couple of hours
and showed them the story.
June is supposed to be the most popular
month for marriage, but why wait until
then if you're young and in love? It was
that kind of reasoning power that propelled
two of Coin Row's citizens down the gilded
aisle last month. Van Booth, the handsome
collegiate·lookin g operator, made it a two-
some with Beulah Baldwin, Western Dis-
tributor's office manager, on February 6
and followed it up with a week's hon ey-
moon to British Columbia. Decca's city
sales manager, Andy Huffine, used some of
his sales-inspiring personality on the pride
and joy of Renton, Wash., Miss Christina
Toman, resulting in a merger in "record"
time February 24. Coin Row extends its
wishes for years and years of mal'ital happi·
ness for both of these couples.
A couple of months ago, a record called
"Tuxedo Junction" was gathering dust on
the shehes of Harper-Meggee, local dis-
tributor for Victor and Bluebird records.
Then one night Glenn Mjller's orchestra
played the number over a nation·wide net-
work in the swingiest of swingy manner.
The next morning music houses were del-
uged for copies of the disc. Phone calls
and letters poured in from all parts of the
orthwest. Harper-Meggee sent a frantic
wire to the factory. A rapid exchange of
telegrams followed. The discs arrived the
latter part of February, but before the ship·
ment rolled in, the back-log of orders had
mounted to five hundred-and were still
coming in. "Tuxedo Junction" is proving
Harper-Meggee's biggest seller in six
months. And all because a chap named
Glenn Miller played it one night over the
radio.
"The turn·over is rapid." If you've heard
that said on Coin Row these past days,
don't 'work up a lather and go searching
for a' game that is making fast money, be-
cause while there are undoubtedly such
pieces of equipment, the refeI:ence is to
the Thomas Gum Company and has nothing
at all to do with machines. In the past two
years, the turn·over in personnel and the
change of office locations have been so fre-
quent, that instead of the inquiry, "How's
business," it's "And where will your office
be located this afternoon?" The most re-
cent development is the purchase of Seat-
tle's Thomas Gum by H. L. Koser of Spo-
kane from Interstate Novelty, and moving
the local office nearer the center of the
Row. Frank Senter succeeds Fred J. Shel·
ton as service man. The latter, a fine artist
in the ways of public relations, accepted
a position with the State Welfare Depart·
ment in Wenatchee. And while the office
keeps moving around like checkers on a
board and new managers and service men
come and go, Lois Kelley remains to per-
form the office duties in her usual efficient
manner. Besides, they have to have some·
one on hand to greet the new personnel,
don't they?
Fla hes from R.K.O.-No, not the movie
studio, but the operating firm guided by
Milt Roumm and Jack Katz. No less than
15 stitches were taken in Roumm's wrist
last month, resulting from a fall through
a garage window-says Roumm. We did
not even suspect that blondes were so tough
to handle. Seniceman Ray Larson joined
his boss on the hospital list by having his
tonsils yanked. Partner Jack Katz and
wife have just returned from a three weeks'
pleasure tour of Calit.rnia.
The grand climax of Rock·Ola's Pacific
Coast good·will tour was capped in Seattle
on February. 26. Seventy operators, ema·
nating from all sections of the Pacific
(See PAC. NORTHWEST , Page 18)