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him or not, here's a real scrapper from
Scra pperville.
The scene shifts to the waterfront . . •
begl'imed warehouses squat sullenly • • •
old freight shades lay on the pier, morose
and brooding . . . in the air the tang of
the sound is sharp and breath-catching.
That's the locale of the old West Connecti-
cut warehouse which housed Wurlitzer,
Columbia-Brunswick-Vocalion,
Operators
Jack Roberts, Jack Howlett, and Don
Waltz. It rained hard one night and the
roof couldn't quite cope with the task. The
seepage warped records and ruined stocks.
Columbia-Brunswick-Vocalion moved short-
ly thereafter.
The line is moving faster now: in the
lead is a baby jeep, better known as Rudy
Peterson, 240 pounds of the stuff that
doesn't recognize its own strength ..• Al
Brashem, who looks like a sugar-daddy
ought to look, but who isn't one . . . the
smile and spirit of the Irish is exemplified
by Mickey Hannon, the ex-prize fighter
who made good in the operating game . . .
A picture of perseverance and determina-
tion: diminutive Jerry Steffan, who couldn't
coax more than a half dozen hairs out on
his upper lip ... Al Muir, pioneer of Col-
umbia-Brunswick records in the Northwest,
possessor of personality-plus, a right guy
all the way . . . Cliff Carter, AI's first
lieutenant, a typical American boy.
A dark cloud drifts over to shade the
screen ... ah, it's the mysterious Mr. "X"
who wasn't quite so mysterious after this
writer's sensational expose. The next month,
Coin Row was divided into two camps; the
majority complimenting on a fearless journ-
alistic feat; the minority pointing an ac-
cusing finger and charging "persecution."
Mr_ "X" was bounced after enough eyes
had opened, and Coin Row settled back to
normalcy.
There was never a dull moment. New
people, new games, new ideas. An associa-
tion was either in the process of formation,
functioning, or disbanding. Members of
the legislature kept pictures of Coindom
on their desks, and every time a new tax
problem arose, they looked at the pictures
and thought it would be an easy way out.
The city councilmen demonstrated an amaz-
ing ignorance in dealing with coin game
ordinances, but thanks to the public en-
lightment program initiated by some of the
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better business boys, they are now ap-
proaching th~ subject in a saner light.
There never was any evidence of frugality
when Coin Row put on their local shows.
They gave the gang the most of the best.
The Wurlitzer parties were super-colossals,
cut from a page in Screenland.
When you evaluate the facts and figures
in their true perspective, you come right
down to this: the men and women in Coin
Row are typical of men and women in any
vocation-some are exceptionally good,
some are average, some are bad. We've
known many of each kind; we've enjoyed
the acquaintance of them all. We could
go on for pages writing about people and
places, because people and places are a
never-ending subject.
But Uncle Sam is calling, and who am
I- who has enjoyed all the privileges of
the greatest Democracy on earth-to turn
a deaf ear? So it's heigh-ho, heigh-ho, off
to the colors we go. And when this grim
life-death struggle is over and our enemies
have been vanquished, then it will be back
to Coin Row, with its never-ending kaleido-
scope of adventure and romance.
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