Bud Willis, shop foreman at Jack R.
Moore Co., San Francisco believes that it
is better to go through life teamed up than
single. So a few days ago he presented Mar·
jorie Clerk a great big diamond ring. The
marriage date is still a secret.
Pat and Howard of D. D. Patton Co.,
Turlock, California operators and on a sep·
arate occasion, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Grant of
Watsonville, were dinner guests of Johnny
Ruggiero last month. In both instances,
Johnny wheeled his parties around to
Grison's Chicken House in San Francisco.
"Monicker", Bally's sensational new nov·
elty game is one of the most outstanding
games introduced this year, according to
many operators who have purchased it
lately. The Jack R. Moore Co. is busy writ·
ing up orders on the new unit.
Joe Adorni of Eureka and Ray Hix of
Red Bluff, both operators, were recent visi·
tors in San Francisco. Both like Rock·Ola
music machines. Hix says he finds time to
attend a few cows and chickens around his
Northern California valley home and it
looks as though the outdoors is agreeing
with him.
Phil Scott, S. F. operator, has just pur·
chased a 37·foot cabin cruiser.
Lou Wolcher, head of Advance Auto·
matic Sales Co. in San Francisco, has just
To Better Serve
• • • Operators, Jobbers and Dis-
tributors in the Bay Area, THE
REVIEW has opened offices at 68
Post Street in San Francisco. Robert
W . Walker is in charge and coin
men are invited to call him at
SUtter 6706 for immediate service.
Advertising, subscriptions and
news matter will be handled by this
new office and friends of THE RE-
VIEW in the Bay Area will find
Bob Walker ready, willing, and
anxious to help you in every way
possible.
returned after a month's trip to Chicago,
New York and Washington. He came back
via Los Angeles.
The Mapes, Ed and Vance, of Mape
Music Co., San Francisco, ought to buy
commuters' tickets, they travel so much,
back and forth, between Los Angeles and
San Francisco.
L. S. Lea, owner of Star Novelty Co. of
San Francisco, passed away tbe middle of
September at Hoburg's Resort, in Sonoma
County, California. Cause: heart attack.
Lea had been conducting his operating
business at the Resort during the summer
months.
Phil Scott, one of San Francisco's lead·
ing operators and a leader in personality
and in business has two sons in service,
one of them in the U. S. Navy and the
other with ,England's Royal Air Force.
Three new members welcomed into San
Francisco's A.M.A. at the first Fall meet·
ing, held recently, were L. J. Chipley,
George Sere and Frank Campilongo. There
was a splendid turnout and of course the
main topic of the meeting was discussion
of the new federal tax situation.
Carlos Parker, operator at Boulder City
and Las Vegas, Nevada, the latter, "Little
Reno," convenient to divorceminded Los
Angelenos, was in Oakland recently where
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he purchased two more Panoram Soundies
from Mills Enterprises, Inc. Parker already
has a number of these machines in opera·
tion and recently installed wall boxes for
them.
"Since we put the wall boxes in," Par·
ker told Warren Taylor of Mills, "our bus·
ness has increased 40 per cent. The rna·
chines are going over with a bang."
In commenting on the new taxes going
into effect immediately on coin operating
machines, Taylor views this situation as a
real opportunity for the industry rather
than a drawback. The good which can
come of this may offset the actual financial
burden, Taylor thinks, and he expresses it
this way: "You see," Taylor pointed out,
"We're gOing to be paying vast sums into
the federal treasury. We're being recog·
nized as a very big and important source
of new revenue to be applied towards the
national good and national defense. Busi·
ness·like, prompt and honest returns on the
part of all of us will help es tablish this
industry like nothing else will. It will I(ive
us a prestige in the minds of both offici'als
and public alike such as we have never
had. And it should make for better coop·
eration with state officials, too."
Sid Mackin, head of the San Francisco
Amusement Merchants Association. has
been having the biggest job on his hands
since his organization was started, follow·
i'ng the final adoption of the new federal
tax on coin operated machines. Writing
bulletins, attending meetings, making
speeches, conferring with both Association
members and non·members cooperating
with federal tax officials-all these are part
of the big program of work that Mackin
has laid out for himself. Mackin, among
other things, journeyed up to Stockton reo
cently and addressed the Stockton Busi·
ness Mens' Association, the coin machine
group there. Tax matters were discussed.
The meeting was presided over by Louis
F. Rotto, chairman of the Stockton group.
Bill Stull and Fred Abdulah, the two men
who are the driving force behind the .
Stockton group, also spoke.
The San Francisco Amusement Mer·
chants Association, through Mackin, has
announced that henceforth, in connection
with the working out of the ramifications
of the new tax set·up, a complete bulletin
service will be mailed out periodically.
This service will go not only to the Asso·
ciation members themselves, but to all op·
erators in northern California - some
900.
Robert W. Walker: •
Keene Confuses
The Review
LOS ANGELES-The editorial staff of
the COIN MACHINE REVIEW, finally had to
call on a Chinese to decipher the Jewish
New Year's Greeti'ng sent during the recent
holiday by A. M. Keene, local operator.
The English wish, "A New Year Greet·
ing With a Good Wish for Every Day" was
topped by some odd looking figures and the
notation, "This cut isn't Kosher," which
proved to be true. All friends of the staff
who could read Hebrew shook their heads
in bewilderment-but the Chinese laun·
dryman up the street laughed when he
read it! He could! It was in his language!
It said "Happy New Year."
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Marble Comes
Buy Bomber
LONG BEACH, Calif.-Sometime within
the next few months when you look up into
the sky and see a strong, fighting ship sail·
ing along, you can say to yourself, "And to
think it was built with marbles!" Because
machines in Long Beach and the Long
Beach area will raise enough money to
build a light bomber.
Marble games have now been classified
with billiard and bowling games as
"amusement machines" and are taxed $10
by the Federal government to raise defense
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funds.
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Warden: "What made you beat up your
cell·mate ?"
Convict: "He did a dirty trick."
"What was it?"
Convict: "He tore a leaf off the calendar
when he knew it was my turn! "
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He: "My wife always wants money."
She: "What does she do with it?"
He: "I don't know. I never give her
any."
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