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Ducky ...................................... $19.50
Majors .................................... 20.00
Toppers .................................. 20.00
Nippy ...................................... 22.50
20.00
Scoop
Super Six ................................ 22.50
Yacht Club ............................ 42.50
Jolly ........................................ 27.50
Sports .................................... 20.00
Speed Demon .......................... 44.50
Speedway .............................. 44.50
Skyline .................................... 54.50
Western BASEBALL, free
game units .......................... 60.00
Genco
SLUGGER ... 99.50
Exhibit
STARS ............ 99.50
Stoner
ARMADA ...... 99.50
Keeney
VELVET ............ 99.50
Bally
FLICKER
99.50
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PHONE:
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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
73
FOR
FEBRUARY
1941
SAN FRANCISCO
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RONALD PATRICK
SAN FRANCISCO (RC)-San Francisco
shap es up in top form in all departmen ts.
Games have been steady and better, and
music continues on the up and up.
The tax situation has lost most of its
exasperating complexion-which was th e
grief of the latter months of last year.
Major credit for doing a job where and
when it was needed, goes to Amusement
Merchants' Ass'n director Sid Mackin. He
has gained the all-importan t confidence and
co-operation of the entire operating group,
welding the association, in the short space
of two months, into one of the best organ-
ized and successful combines of its kind in
the country.
Thursday, January 31st, th e association
had i'ts first dinn er-entertainment-get-to-
gether. It was held at the smart Empire
Hotel-and it was a pip from every angle.
They say good thin gs come in threes, and
the affair proved good th e tradition by
breezing merrily on 'ti! three in th e morning.
Incidentally th e San Francisco Music
Ass'n has moved to new quarters next to
the Amusement Merchants in the Marshall
Square Building. Naturally, th i's helps all
around from th e convenience standpoint.
Distributors claim the liveliest January
sales for the past several years. Particularly
noteworthy is the demand for new equip-
ment. Apparently, all makes are in favor.
There's a real prosperity note to be felt in
the air.
Major domo Wolf of th e Wolf Sales Co.
is expected back from a sortie to Mexico
any day now. He is on a business expansion
move; next trip will be through principal
markets in South America. It's that kind
of on-the-toes spirit that has kept the Wolf
organization out front on the leader's list.
Lou Wolcher looks in fine spirits and
trim-and since he's been back in the bali-
wick from his ample eastern amble over
'showtime' games have been on-the-march
out of his establishment like a parade.
Johnny Ruggiero, Jack Moore's top sarge
has been doing an 'all out' job at his stand
-but J. R. won't admit it, says, "If Bally
ga mes get any hotter I'll have to be triplets
just to take orders."
Bill Corcoran is in the news again. Or
rather we should say still! He's one 'old
timer' and soldi er we can never see too
often-when he has time to see us. Present
dope is that Bill has sold his Larkin St.
lair to associates and will devote full time
to direct fac tory representation in the way
of sales supervision for the Buckley Co. in
the eleven western states. No need to men-
tion that a standout job is expected by all
-which is to say littl e because Bill ha~
been heading it up for Buckl ey over some
period already.
Noted a couple of days ago th at De Loss
Osbo rn placed a carload of Packard Play-
Mors in record tim e and is out for some-
thing of an all-time mark for the first
quarter of this year. D. L. 0. is one of the ·
best served musi c men in the west and can
personally take apart and put together any
make of music box in an even hour.
George Bates, Oakland's mentor of super-
smooth operation in the music field claims
a new high in th e running of telephone
music. Installations i'n the east bay metro-
polis now top 150 locations, which, per
capi ta, we believe is first in th e country.
Oakland Automatic Sales, vimful Jack
Adler's premises reports progress of a sub-
stantial caliber-and, accord in g to what the
birdies are saying, has an eye out for new
larger quarters.
Mills Sales Co., mammoth of the amuse-
ments, also on th e Oakland side, gives news
of sales exceeding any January in the or-
ganization's hi story. Praise to Warren Tay-
lor and staff.
And a windup word from Frisco's Cal.
Simplex' Wurgler-New Wurlitzer Wows
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Maraniss New Distrib
For Columbia Discs
NEW YORK-H. S. "Chick" Maraniss
has been named distributor for Columbia
records in Boston and the New England
territory, according to announcement by
Paul Southard, Columbia Recording Corp.
salesmanager. The organization which Ma-
raniss heads will be known as Columbia
Wholesalers Inc. of New England, with
offices at 584 Commonwealth Ave., Boston;
it succeeds General Equipment Corp.,
former Columbia distributors for the terri-
tory.
Maraniss has been with Columbia Re-
cording Corp. since its organization as a
subsidiary of Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tem in 1939, in the capaci ty of assistant to
th e president, Edward Wallerstein. A Bos-
tonian by birth, li e graduated from Har-
vard University in 1918, served in the U.S.
Army as a cap tain in the field artillery,
and prior to his affiliation with Columbia
he was an execu tive of th e Victor Talking
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