Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

Issue: 1941 June

greasy spoons along their routes and who, for business reasons,
have to patronize them occasionally.
BILL MAHAFFEY,
Valley Vendors Co., Stockton, Calif.
(NOTE: It is reported that goats, as well as gourmands,
like this. Ed.)
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This is my favorite recipe - a Hungarian dish called:
Pascoodnick Pudding
William Corcoran, Bill Mahaf-
fey, Mac Mohr, R. E. "Smitty"
Smith, and other prominent
Operator-Chefs describe their
favorite dish in this fascinating
Department this month .
For an old time hunter-
Wild Duck
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To begin with, the duck should be left in the refrigerator for at
least seven days, giving it proper time to age. Then clean the bird
well and stuff with chopped onion and celery. Get your oven red
hot-about 450°. When the oven is good and hot, put the bird
in and cook it medium rare (18 minutes) until it is a nice brown
color. After removing from the oven take a carving knife or
duck shears and cut off two nice fi let steaks to be served on
a platter nicely garnished with a little parsley and lemon.
Press the juice from the carcas and place in a skillet, adding
2 ounces of red wine, 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce, paprika, salt,
pepper, a kernel of garlic, and a small piece of butter. After this
mixture becomes lukewarm in the skillet, take the yolk of an egg
and mix in thoroughly, which will thi cken this gravy. When the
duck is served with this gravy, along with a bottle of fine red
wine, I'll say you can't beat it.
WILLIAM CORCORAN, San Francisco
Something to try while the Saratogas are sizzling:
Mud Hens a la Mahaffey
After you have stumbled in 4 or 5 creeks over your head, your
dog has failed to retrieve, and you have had to sw im out your elf
to do the dog's job, and then finally arrived home late at night with
the mud hens to find Mrs. Mahaffey - or YOUR wife - gone
south-
Prepare a nice fire and keep refueling until you have a nice
deep bed of red hot coals.
Next take a clean white pine plank and after thoroughly cover·
ing the bird with a nice thick coa t of mud, tie it very secu rely to
the pine plank. Bury bird and plank as deep in the coals as pos·
s ible and leave it there until you start drooling at th e mouth. Next
remove the feathered sweeti e and cut the string. Finally-and thi s
is MOST IMPORTANT- throw th e bird over your left shoulder
and ea t the plank.
This is particularly recommended for operators who have some
Operators' Dream Para-
dise Found in Panama
LOS ANGELES-Coin machine business
is so good in Panama that th e money
changer's pockets are worn out, according
to an article by Ludwig Bemelmans in the
June iss ue of M cCall's Magazine.
Descr ibing life in thi s important and
vital outpost of America, the author arrives
at thi s paragraph: "Most of the young
5 wheat bread rolls
% lb. raw suet
¥2 cup brown sugar
1 IDs. molasses
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 grated lemon rind
1 IDS. water
salt
¥2 lb. prunes, s tewed
Soak the bread rolls in water, then press quite dry. Mix well
with suet, sugar, mola ses, cinnamon and lemon rind, the table·
spoon of water, a pinch of salt. Line an iron pot with alternate
layers of this dough, and fill with the stewed and stoned prunes.
Bake 2 hours, basting often with prune juice.
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MAC MOHR,
Mac Mohr Co., Los Angeles
. .
When I am "batching it" for any reason, and am obliged to pre·
pare my own meals, I invariably fall back on a dish which is a
great favorite of mine, and which we call:
Bachelor Chow
1 pkg. spaghetti
lib. good hamburger s teak
1 med. onion
1 can tOlna to soup
salt and pepper to taste
Prepare the spaghetti in the usual way, boiling 'till tender in
salted, rapidly boiling water. Blanch and set as ide, and then pre·
pare the meat as follows:
Mince the onion and add to the raw hamburger. Put the ham·
burger in a skillet and cook over a medium flame, stirring and
turning with a fork until fully cooked and properly browned.
Add the cooked hamburger to the spaghetti, together with the
can of tom ato soup. Mix thoroughly and heat until good and hot.
Serves on ly ONE, and that is YOU. You'll eat it all yourself.
Let the rest of the family prepare their own CHOW.
Both spaghetti and hamburger are foods which appeal to all
men, and when the two are blended properly, as they are here,
then you have something to brag about and something to smack
your lips over.
Oh yes - if you're interested, ask me for my non·explosive
Cream Puff recipe.
R. E. "SMITTY" SMITH,
O. D. Je~mings & Co., Chicago
To the point:
Richardson Special
Pop corn and milk for a Sunday evening fireside dish.
R. M. RICHARDSON,
R. M. Richardson Co., Berkeley, Calif.
men come from places where the bars are
closed on Sundays and the drugstores are
open-here the order is reversed.
" One ees them stan ding in lin e in front
of rows of machines. The man who hands
th em change has a canvas apron ti ed
around his middle; from thi s h e dishes out
dimes, nickels, qu arters; so good is busi·
ness h ere that the lea th er edge of the
pockets th at are sewn on the apron is worn
off and th e canvas frayed."

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Baseball Re-lives in
Batting Practice
BROOKLYN-From Ty Cobb to Dizzy
Dean and from Babe Ruth to Hank Green·
burg, th e boys who can swa t and run reo
main remembered hero es to America!
"Baseball is the great representative of the
spirit of America" says Max Levine of
Scientific Machine Corporation. "There
have been many changes in our country,
th ere will be many more . . . but baseball
and the American love of baseball never
change.
"That's why Scientific Batting Practice
is called the 'greatest game that has ever
appeared in the industry' by leading opera·
tors, jobbers and distributors. It really fea·
tures baseball as baseball is played, and
all th e fanfare and thrills and exciting
action."
Batting Practice is an example of the
testing methods of Scientific Machine Cor·
poration for it was tested over a long period
before being presented to the coin machine

industry.
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IRVING SHERMAN
NEW YORK (RC) - Hats off to the
Munves boys! It's coinmen like th ese boys
who make you think the business is goi ng
somewhere. Jack in g up prize awards to
$1200 in th eir idea con test, the Munves
family has not only opened the gates wide
for ideas but it has shown the trade that
grabbing the other feller's spot i n't the
only way to increase your business.
REASONS WHY OPERATORS Of THE ROWE STANDARD MAKE MONEY
Is business good? You should try a nd
get into some of those jobbers' dens! What
are the boys offering-Hedy Lamarr and
th e Marx Brothers on toast? Seeburg,
Rock-Ola, Wurlitzer, the merchandi ers and
games are whirling dervishes these days.
Have you heard th e good n ews? Sum-
mer festivals are in store. The CMA, th e
Amalgamated and other local units are
settin g up th eir dates for bucolic idyls-
you know, th e place where gras really
grows and a tree ain't by th e co urtesy of
MGM.
It's only a short while back Bert Lane
was batting 'em out for Ponser. Now the
local boy is branching out and taking more
space on Coin Machine Row. A decorator
has been ca ll ed in a nd when he's through
even the manufacturers will have to take
off their hats when they hit Seaboard!
In-again -o ut-aga in Joe Fishman is b~ck
with th e Amalgamated. Seems Joe Just
ca n't keep away from th e boys and th e
boys, knowin g what a firecracker Jo e ca n
be, want Joe to feel that the welcome sign
is a permanent fixture.
Big nam es in town this semes ter include
Frank DuGreni er whom we spotted in co n-
feren ce with Jimmy Martin and Joe Snow,
DuGreni er representatives. Th e firm has
ca ught Coin Machine Row fever and is
adding to its space.
Did you know th at Bill P eek is swearin g
off gardenias? The decision ca me when
Bill had a fallout with his car and blamed
the lapel decorator for getting in his way.
Seeburg's outlet on Tenth Avenue is
getting to be a second Hollywood stopover.
If Nat Cohn keeps on dishing out those
pretties of stage, screen and radio, how
do you expect the boys to go home to their
wives? Latest were the King Sisters.
Maybe you don't believe in miracles, but
plain duty prompts us to report that those
two portly gentlemen who frequent the
CMA have gone down ten pounds and
they' re not through yet. As we understand
it, thl! cause for all this subtraction is a
sidebet that before June is out, one of the
duet will be down to a measly 200 lbs.
What's brewing over at Supreme Vend-
ing? The last tim e we spotted the Little
Napoleon he was so busy we thought we
were on a racetrack. It can't be those
three arcades and handling the Buckley
Music System that sends Willie Blatt going
round and round ?
Paul Glimas is not taking the Greek de-
feat too hard. Opined Paul: "We Greeks
haven't started yet. They may have driven
us out but before we're through we'll
make the N. G.'s feel like a Saturday night
in Tombstone with the bars shut down."
Sam (Commodore) Yollen looks forward
to a commission in the U. S. Navy as the
government is sounding out all owners of
boats as to whether they would care to
join up. Sam's difficulty is deciding
whether he ought to be just plain Commo-
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dore in the future or, maybe, R ear Ad-
miral, if you get what we mean.
Al S. Douglis and Dave Helfenbein,
Chicago, breezed through Big Town at the
end of May. According to the two , Daval
finds business excellent and expects the
trend to continue throughout the sum-
mer. As yet, manufacturers need not fear
priorities, but the adage about "making
hay" is not out of place in this connection.
All pals of Dave Simon will be glad
to learn that Dave is up and about again
after a session at the hospital.
Bill Rabkin of Mutoscope tagged ye re-
porter recently about Drive-Mobile. Rab-
kin wants us to pass on the word that
Mutoscope has found this to be one of
its best sellers and it feels that coinmen
everywhere have a good bet in the game.
As Mutoscope has been calling 'em right
from 'way back we pass on the dope to the
trade.
Packard's sales manager, Rudy Green-
baum, hit the New York trail and had a
few round with the boy. Rudy is in the
pink and so is business.
Penny vendors look good from where
we stand. A little trek around town re-
veals that vendors have increased in spots
everyw here. This is the best sign yet
that the trade is getting healthier and
healthier. One large operator of penny ma-
chines has assured us that the future of
these machines is rosy. He explained that
loss of manpower and inflation means that
the machines can offer staples at deflated
prices with a cost subject only to cost of
raw materials and rent.
George Ponser doesn't stay out of the
news long. This time Ponser rings the
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