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ARCADE EQUIPMENT
C H ICAGO COI N HOC KEYS .... $1 89.50
GENCO PLAYBALLS ................ 199.50
KEENEY SU BM A RI NE ................ 179.50
SC IENTI FIC BATTIN G
PRA CTICE ............................ 119.50
JENNINGS ROLL· IN·THE·
BARRel. .................................. 109.50
SEEBURG CONVERTED TO
H ITLER·JAP. NEW
MARBlEGLO ........................ 129.50
KE ENEY TEXAS LEAGUER........ 39.50
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REVIEW
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PHONOGRAPHS
CONSOLES-SLOTS
WURLITZER 850 ................•..... $495.00
SEEBURG 8200 RC ............••.... 495.00
WURLITZER 750E •......•.•..•..•.... 425.00
WURLITZER 800 .••..............•.. 339.50
MILLS PANORAMS .....•.......... 379.50
WURLITZER 700 ...................... 289.50
SEEBURG MAJOR R.C ............. 279.50
WURLITZER 616 ILL................. 69.50
MILLS FOUR BELLS. ALL
REBUILT & REFINISHED •••• $369.50
KEENEY SUPER BELLS ............ 179.50
BALLY HI·HANDS .................. 114.50
MILLS BLUE FRONTS. ALL
REBUILT AND REFINISHED
5c Play $109.50; 10c Play 114.50
25c Play .............................. 124.50
ALL PRICES F.O . B. LOS ANGELES. WRITE MILWAUKEE FOR SPECIAL PRICES
MACHINES RECONDITIONED, READY TO OPERATE, '13 CASH WITH ORDER, BAL. C .O.D.
BADGER SALES CO. BADGER NOVELTY CO.
1612 West Pico Blvd.
LOS ANGELES. CALIF.
2546 North 30th St.
MILWAUKEE, WISC.
DECEMBER
1942
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ST. LOUIS- Lieutenant Virgil J. Bern-
sen writes regularly to his old buddies at
Davies Novelty Co. from Santa Barbara,
Calif. He has nothing but the highest praise
for the weather there and the feminine seg-
ment of the population.
Miss Mickey Greco has been added to
the office staff of the McCall Novelty Co.,
and is radiating happiness on her new job.
Other recent additions to the McCall staff
include Don Williams, Carl Colemeyer and
Joe Kelly, all of the service department.
Harry Davies, head of the firm bear ing
the same name, led the parade of a host
of St. Louis coinmen that trekked to Chi-
cago late in November fo r buying purposes.
Fred Lamwersieck, former financial sec-
retary at Ideal Novelty, has left the con-
cern to enter defense wo rk. Fred is an old
structural steel worker and was anxious to
get back into his old game.
Frank Harris, Dexter, Mo., operator, vis-
ited St. Louis showrooms recently to pur-
chase needed equipment. Frank reports
brisk business on his p hono and pintable
routes and states that the acceptance on
Rock-Ola "Commandos" was exceptional.
George Young of the Frank Harris Sales
Co., Dexter, has joined th e Army and is
stationed near St. Louis. He was formerly
office man in the org:anization. K urt Hunt
was another from the firm to enter the
Army. He was a routeman.
Sy Horowitz, well ' known Arcade and
phono operator of St. Louis has left for the
Army. Sy remarked the Army would be
glad to get him for all his spare time at
the Arcade was spent in the gun section
where he practiced his marksmanship
Miss Phyllis Tzinberg, personable secre-
tary formerly with the Olive Novelty, has
gone to work for the government. Her
shoes will be fill ed by Miss Doro th y Komm
who has been understudying P hyllis for the
past few weeks.
AI Haneklau of Olive is still attending
farewell parties given for him by friends
who have heard he is going into the Navy.
"If the Navy doesn't hurry and take me I
will be too fat to pass the physical," la-
ments· AI.
Martin Balensiefer spent the latter part
of November in South Dakota on a hunting
trip and came back with the allotted amount
of game.
Bill Betz of the W-B ~ovel ty Co. reports
his firm is doing a . good business in the
reconditioned equ ipment departme nt.
Bill Farmer, former routeman with Ideal
Novelty, visited with local coinmen when
he was on a furlough from the Navy re-
cently. He is at the Great Lakes Training
Center.
PIN TABLES
Big Chi d
...... $24.50
M. t ro ....................................... 24.50
S.v. n Up .........
. ...... 32.50
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Miami Beac h ._ ....................... 29.50
Horosco pe ...... ...................... 34.50
Sc hoo l Days .. ' ...................... 24 .50
T. D. Butcher of Carbondale, III., is the
latest coin operator from these parts to go
into the Army.
Recent visitors to St. Louis showrooms
included John Zarkos oflefferson City, Mo. ,
Earl Moore, also of that city, and Jim
Barnes of Jacksonville, Ill.
Melvin Berardino of the Advance Phono-
graph Co. was about to fulfill a lifelong
ambition by becoming a soldier but was
double c he c ked at the last minute and
found to be suffering from hypertension.
Jack Mehl of the Olive Novelty, accord·
ing to reports heard around this firm's office,
ate a quarter of a twelve·pound turkey on
Thanksgiving Day and unmistakably showed
the effects of it the next day at work. (It
seems he slept most of the day.)
Barney Frericks of the Arrow Novelty
Co. gets letters regularly from Tom Kohnen
who is with the Army overseas.
Ben Spasser, operator of a nice string
of phonos and pin games thruout east cen·
tral Illinois was in town in early December
and reported business on the routes to be
exceptionally good.
Bernie Hutchings, phonograph operator,
has sold out his string to Carl Trippe.
Bernie went into defense work in Chicago.
Carl Trippe headed a junket of local
coinmen that wen t to Chicago to attend the
Convention of the National Association of
Amusement Parks, Pools, and Beaches, at
Hotel Sherman, on December 1, 2, 3, 4.
The biggest problem facing members of
the Missouri Amusement Machine Associ·
ation and the St. Louis Phonograph Own-
ers Association is how to adequately servo
ice routes in the face of gasoline rationing.
Board members are hard at work trying to
devise some sys tem wh ereby operators can
carryon without a too severe dislocation of
their organization . Just how much of a
load common carriers are able to bear is
yet to be determined but it is obvious that
it has limitations. Operators are fortunate
in one respect in that they are able to buy
an unlimited amount of rides on the street
cars by simply purchasing a weekly pass.
This involves load limits also and does not
solve the problems of operators who have
strings in county districts. As one promi·
nent operator states it there will be a dis-
continuance of all super deluxe service and
the end of frantic rushes to bring a bag of
nickels to a tavern owner twenty miles out
on the highway. By the time next meeting
night rolls around board directors expect
to have a lot of the answers to these per-
. plexing problems.
James Prosser
Robbins Has New Item
NEW YORK-Dave Robbins announces
that his firm has originated a new item
which can be sold by operators as a side
line. Over 100,000 have been sold in New
York City and just now the firm is getting
started with out-of-town distribution.
T hr •• Up ................................ $29.50
D.f.ns. ( Bak.r) ................. 34 .50
Um ps
.................................... 19.50
............. 29. 50
Pl ay ba ll
P arad ise ................. .............. 24 .50
Dud e Ra nch ....
. ....... 24.50
Mills
Mills
Pace
Pace
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10c Bl u. Fronts ....... $11 0.00
25c Blu. Fro nts ..... ... 11 5.00
All Star Co mets...
49.50
Clu b Conso le. 5,
or 25 .......................... 129.50
Mills Four B. II ....... 495.00
EXTRA SPECIAL
ARCADE
I Ball S port S p.c ia l _ ..... $74.50
R.bui lt J a p Gun
... $ 134.50
Gott li.b S ing le Gri pp.r......
9.50
Gottli.b Tr ip i. Gri pp.r...... 16.50
SLOTS
Star Attractio n
49.50
Broadcast .. ... ....................... , 24.50 Millt - 5c Go ld Chrom •...... $ 184.50
Comp lete Li ne of Late Model
HI Div • ................ .................. 34.50 Mills 10c Gold Ch ro m • ...... 189.50
Used Phonogra ph s and
F li ck.r ................................... 24.50 Mills 25c Gold Ch rom • ........ 194.50
Pan Amer ican ............ ..... __ ..... 29.50 Mills 5c Blue Fron ts ....... ___ 107.50
Accessories.
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PLEASE . NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS
Du e to th e volume of busi ness a nd t he la rge va'r iety of our st ock we were forced to move to larger qu arters.
KI.EIN NOVEI.TY COMPANY ~
144 E. Highland Ave .
Phone, Broadway 8484
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