PHILADELPHIA
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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
new members, for both Brown and Men-
. delsohn expect images in May. A local
columnist mentioned that if there is such
a thing as carrying partnership too far
they've done it.
With a complete and capable staff to
handle his new quarters, Artie Pockrass'
Universal Amusement Company is now do-
ing a thriving business remodeling old and
antiquated phonographs. Members of the
staff include Office Manager, Edna Wein-
stein; Cosmopolitan district manager,
Stanley Bear; Suburban manager, Leonard
Rappaport, while Cecil Gilbert is Maintain-
ance manager.
Recently appointed investigator for the
Philadelpbia Coin Machine Operators' As-
sociation is Jules H. Goldberg, well known
to the industry. In his new capacity Gold-
berg will check over any grievances arising
between members regarding locations and
report his findings to the proper committee.
He will also contact locations in behalf of
members and aid in bui lding good-will be-
tween operators and location owners.
The date of the an nual banquet and
dance of the Philadelphia Coin Machine
Operators' Association will be Saturday
evening, March 23. Affair will be at the
exclusive Penn A. C. where an important
orchestra will play for the several hundred
couples who are expected to attend.
Banquet chairman and entertainment
committee head is Nathan Choderker who
promised to outdo his previous efforts in
providing the best in food and entertain-
ment for the 1940 banquet. Working with
Choderker' are: Sam Lerner, co-chairman
of the committee; Oscar Spiegel, Frank
Urban, Irving Newman, Eddie Richter, Ben
Hankin and Frank Engel. All have ex-
perience in conducting similar affairs and
so with such a group the Philadelphia Coin
Machine Opera tors' Association banquet
should be assured of plenty of everything.
Most recent experience in providing
plenty of food and entertainment to a large
group of operators was by Frank Engel and
Mike Spector, executives of the Automatic
Amusement Company who threw a gala
party to mark the opening of their new
qual'ters at 919-21 No. Broad Street on
Sunday, February 11.
Best wishes for a quick recovery are
being extended to popular Myer Frank by
his numerous friends in the local industry .
Although Frank left for Florida in order
to rest and forget business, he assured the
operators that he wou ld be back in Philly
in sufficient time for the banquet.
Merging of routes between Mike Spector
and Phil Driben was reported completed
during the week.
Mike Scherdorf has moved into his new
home at 404 East Montana St. to which he
invites his friends. The residence is sup-
posed to be really a showplace.
W ho is the flame Bill Rodstein, hand-
some young Treasurer of the Philadelphia
Coin Machine Operators' Association, rates
so highly that he makes daily phone calls
to Chicago. It must be love for the lucky
girl who i supposed to be coming East
especially for the Coin Machine banquet
at which she will be Bill's guest.
At the banquet new officers will be offi-
cially inducted with proper ceremonies.
They include Marty Mitnick, who will
serve h is fif th consecutive term as Presi-
dent, and Sam Pinkowitz who succeeds
Frank E ngel in the post of Vice President.
Jack Brandt retains his position as Secre-
tary. New Financial Secretary is Al Cohen
who succeeds Ben Hankin after barely de-
feat ing popular Al Rodstein. New Board
Members are: Lou Sussman, Sam Stern,
Morris Stein, Frank Engel, Robert Stein
and Al Rodstein. Grievance Committee
Chairman is Robert Stein.
The Keystone Vending Company, local
Rock-Ola phonograph distributor as well
as distributor for the Bally Coca-Cola Ven-
dor, sent operators a unique invitation to
the opening of their new offices at 1423-25
Spring Garden Street. Each opera tor in
Philadelphia received a homing pigeon
with a message attached to its leg and the
invitation instructed him to release the
pigeon at a specified hour when their ac-
ceptance would be flown directly to the
home of Sam Stern, Keystone Vending
Company proprietor, by the cooing birds.
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vania and New Jelsey will probably be held
some time in April. No definite date has
yet been set, according to Business Man-
ager Frank Hammond.
Several representatives of the Eastern
Pennsylvania Phonograph organization will
attend the banquet of the Maryland Phono-
graph Operators when they hold their an-
nual dinner-dance at the Southern Hotel
on March 19.
Operator Bill Oelschlegel has retired
from the phonograph business after selling
various sections of his route to Association
members.
New members of the various branches of
the Phonograph Operators' Association are:
Rulon Bros., West Chester, Pa.; Thomas H.
Evans, Marcus Hook, Harold Rupert, Palo
Alto, Pa.; William Humiecki, Roy Hart-
man, Allentown, Pa.; Boyer Bros., Read-
ing, Pa.
The local branch of the Phonograph Op-
erators' Association is conducting a unique
contest which is expected to stimulate the
flow of nickels into the phonos of par-
ticipating members. The contest which is
called the "Guess the Title" contest has
each operator place a special record on all
of his phonographs, the name of which is
concealed. Then when the patron plays the
record and offers his guess as to the name,
he signs a slip of paper and submits it to
the location owner. Various cash prizes for
the best and closest guesses are offered by
the Association.
By placing posters publicizing the con-
test on all locations in the city the "Guess
the Title" contest has helped operators in·
crease their collections from phonos. In
addition other advertising and publicity
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