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KAN~A~ [IIY
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
12
FOR
JULY
1941
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The heaviest
Summer operation in the history of the
Coin Machine Industry in th e Missouri
Valley is underway. All types of equipment
are setting new highs. Music distributors
report sale of new machines up at least 20
per cent over last year's same period-and
it was a new high itself. Replay operators
are doubling up on a large percentage of
locations simply because a single machine
won't take care of the demand. The Cig.
arette vendor picture is bright and getting
better and will continue to do so, these
operators say, regardless of new defense
tax measures.
In the candy bar vendor field Harold
Sprague of Confection Cabinet reports
that for the first time in the history of the
business, summer sales have not fallen be·
low those of the rest of the year. And
therein lies a profitable example to all
operators.
Confection Cabinet limits their locations
to theatre lobbies and the merchandising of
confections, particularly candy bars. In
years past summer heat has caused a big
was t e in t his merchandise, partially
through spoilage, not to mention the fact
that smaller stocks had to be kept and to
keep up eye·appeal much additi'onal work
had to be done.
This year, Confection Cabinet and their
locations got together. A large number of
very attractive new refrigerated cases were
purchased and arrangements were made to
have ushers attend them, this latter cost
to be borne by the locations. The coin mao
chines were also kept in and stocked with
a type of merchandise not affected by the
warm weather. This bit of foresight has
not only kept up the firm's sales volume,
but in many cases has upped receipts in
that the new fixtures allow for more dis-
play. All of which would seem to point
out that the future in this business lies in
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" Swell business", says Leo J. Kelly, Vice President of O. D. Jennings, congratulating Frank
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in a refrigerated vendor.
In and out of towners are many. Jim
Ball, who formerly operated in Oklahoma
City and is now active around Houston and
Little Rock, paused to say "Hello" to his
Kansas City operator friends recently. He
was on his way to Excelsior Springs, local
health resort, to visit his moth er.
L. T. Newlin , also a former Oklahoma
operator in Tulsa, and now in Houston,
stopped off in Kansas City with his family
for a few hours. On a vacation, they moved
eastward.
Reports from Hutchinson, Kansas, bring
word that Orville White is again going
strong in automatic music. The informa-
tion here is that he has sold his White
Distributing Company of Wichita to Pete
Bloom and is devoting his entire attention
to interests in and around Hutchinson.
T. J. Johnson , formerly with the United
Amusement Company, and Bob Gilbert,
have joined the staff of Albert Kahn, op-
erator of Re-Play tables. Operator Kahn
is another former Oklahoman who has
found Kansas City very much to his liking.
Perhaps the best proof we can offer as
to what the coin machine Summer business
is like is the fact that Carl Hoelzel,
United Amusement Company's head man
and President of Hobbies, Inc., did not
have time during the month of June to take
a trip, which should set some kind of a
record or other. United has been going
at an 18-hour a day clip and Carl says he
sees no let-up in the rush of business.
About the same holds true at the Acme
Amusement Company. Frank Buccero
and Frank Fasone put it simply by say-
ing: "We just about have time to take care
of our business." This firm makes no at-
tempt to hide the fact that they believe that
any way the cigarette tax picture goes it
cannot help but be beneficial to them. Also
in the operation of marble tables, Acme's
recent large orders of equipmen t-made in
the belief that deliveries might be de-
layed later-did not even stop in their stock
rooms, but moved from freight car to loca-
tion.
From Messrs. Tim Crummett's and
OpeJ-lltcJ-J AUTO LOAN PURCBASE MONEY
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