Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

Issue: 1942 September

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LOS ANGELES-The Lab.or Day week-
end f.ound men and w.omen .of Western
C.oind.om seeking devi.ous kinds .of relaxa-
ti.on_ S.ome stayed at h.ome and enj.oyed the
balmy weather, s.ome w.orked in their vic-
t.ory gardens, and s.ome s.ought the m.oun-
talns f.or a bit .of b.oating and fishing_ All
in all it was a much milder week-end f.or
the trade than in years past f.or the c.onser-
vati.on .of tires kept the lads cl.ose t.o h.ome_
Over at Ass.ociated Operat.ors .of L.os An-
geles C.ounty M.olly Sim.on is back at her
desk f.oll.owing a splendid vacati.on trip that
t.o.ok her t.o Texas_
William Happel, Jr_, at Badger Sales, en-
j.oyed a visit during the m.onth with Fabric.o
De M.osaic.os, .of Lacubaya, D. F., Mexic.o.
As a result .of the c.onfab 15 machines went
Mexic.o-ward .on a special permit received
by Happel.
Bill Landes, Pfanstiehl Needle representa-
tive in the West, arrived fr.om San Fran-
cisc.o .on August 28th t.o huddle with Bud
Parr .of General Music.
In t.own at the same time was Bill Hem-
minger, Perm.o Pr.oducts salesman agel', wh.o
st.opped at the Biltm.ore.
C.orp.oral Jack Lam.on, Jr_, s.on .of
the Long Beach .owner .of Al.oha N.ovelty
C.o., visited with his family in August and
returned t.o the Mare Island Naval H.os-
pitaL Y.oung Lam.on j.oined the Marines
f.our years ag.o and when all-hell br.oke .out
at Pearl Harb.or he was w.ounded in the
sh.oulder by shrapneL Later at Midway
Island Lam.on saw f.our .of his c.omrades
bl.own t.o an.other w.orld and had his leg
shattered while in charge .of a machine gun
nest .of five .others besides himself. All but
Lam.on were killed in the attack and he
received six machine gun bullets in his left
leg, with .one shattering the b.one. Previ.ous
t.o his stint in the Islands Lam.on was a
machine gun instruct.or .on the West C.oast.
An.other West C.oast c.oinman s.on that
all are awaiting w.ord fr.om is R.oy J.ones,
Jr_, s.on .of R.oy J.ones, music .operat.or, wh.o
was stati.oned at C.orregid.or at the time .of
its fall and has n.ot been heard from since.
Mrs. William Happel, Jr., has been d.oing
s.ome USO w.ork .on bond sales and has been
meeting with her gr.oup .of w.omen at the
Wilshire C.ountry Club. Chances are s.old
.on $25.00 b.onds and pr.ofits .obtained there-
fr.om are turned .over t.o the USO.
Incidentally the Happels are n.ow living
in the Ravensw.o.od Apartments in H.olly-
w.o.od which is .owned by the bux.om Mae
West. Says Bill: "Mae lives .on the fI.o.or
ab.ove, and her manager lives .on the fI.o.or
bel.ow us." T.o which THE REVIEW adds that
steam heat w.on't be necessary in the Hap-
pel's apartment this winter.
Paul E. Cr.owley, f.or 17 years West C.oast
general manager f.or C.olumbia, has resigned
t.o return t.o San Francisc.o, and will w.ork
with a defense industry f.or the durati.on_
Ge.orge Aristaga, f.ormer Fresn.o .operat.or
is n.ow in the Army.
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P.olice raiders visited the L.os Angeles
Bear Yet
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Cox Vending Machine Co. of Salisbury, North Carolina, w rote-"It is always
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CmCAGO NOVELTY COMPANY, inc.
1348 Newport Ave.
Chicago, III.
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swanky J.onathan Club September 8th; ar-
rested bartender Frank Ertman, and c.onfis-
cated five sl.ot machines.
G.ord.on Hicks is n.ow assisting R.obert
Stark .on his Wired Music set-up in L.ong
Beach.
H. L. Chish.olm, f.ormer service man f.or
varl.ous .operat.ors in San Dieg.o and Oak-
land, is n.ow Private Chish.olm and is sta-
ti.oned at present at Camp Rucker, Ala-
bama.
An.other .of c.oind.om's men in service is
R.obert R. Riddell wh.o was graduated from
Officers' Training Sch.o.ol in Miami, Fl.orida,
.on September 10th as a Sec.ond Lieutenant.
Clark Gable is attending the same sch.o.oL
Riddell's h.ome p.ort is Pasadena where his
father 'operates Wired Music and Cigarette
machines.
F. C. Hardy, Oxnard, has m.ore than just
his music .operati.ons t.o brag ab.out. Sec.ond
pride and j.oy .of this p.opular .operat.or is
his fI.ock .of first class hens. Extra, super
de luxe specials are what the f.olks call the
hen fruit fr.om the Hardy acres and visiting
c.oinmen, carrying away samples, prove the
f.olks are right.
Irving Br.omberg, wh.o has been in the
now Avaitatle
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A small stock of new Du Grenier CHAMPIONS , new and used models of all
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R. A. PABINA Ii. CO.
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1724 S. Vermont, LOS ANGELES
156 9th St., SAN FRANCISCO
DU GRENIER WESTERN DISTRIBUTORS
j.obbing and distributing business .on the
C.oast f.or the past ten years, and pri.or t.o
that was in New Y.ork City, has cl.osed his
.offices f.or the durati.on.
Sam Niles, wh.o .operates up Santa Maria
way, paid l.ocal c.oinmen a visit .on Septem-
ber 9th and had a taste .of the dim-.out .on
his way S.outh. Sam ch.ose the C.oast high-
way and when night .overt.o.ok him n.orth .of
G.oleta f.ound that his c.owl parking lights
.on his Huds.on weren't much g.o.od f.or driv-
ing. When he turned .on slightly brighter
Ji'ghts a highway oatr.olman quickly caught
up with him and advised him the war was
still .on. Sam went h.ome by daylight.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gutshall s.ought .out
Big Bear lake f.or their Lab.or Day vacati.on.
M.ost .of the time was spent pil.oting "Wh.o
Dat" .over the waters and pulling .out the
big .ones.
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An.other c.oinman enj.oying a similar vaca-
ti'.on was Milt.on Lange, Glendale, wh.o was
at Lake Arr.owhead. Milt has a big Chris
Craft up there and delights in cutting
acr.oss the lake at 40 miles an h.our.
Jack Pfeiffer willl.ong remember the ride
he t.o.ok .on Gutshall's b.oat .on Lab.or Day.
Gutshall gave Pfeiffer the rear seat in the
b.oat and f.orthwith "gave her the gun."
Waves fr.om b.oth sides gave Pfeiffer a c.on-
tinu.ous sh.ower and when the ride was fin-
ished water was dripping fr.om alm.ost every
part .of Pfeiffer's pers.on.
The Flu caught up with Bill C.orc.oran
and laid him l.ow in San Francisc.o. On the
10th Bill was still in bed but d.oing nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. Jean Min th.orne returned
fr.om a three day visit t.o Las Vegas .on
September 8th. They put up at the EI
Ranch.o Vegas while there and Jean s.old
9 Premiers and 1 President despite the fact
that the trip was primarily f.or pleasure.
M. C. Edwards, San Bernardin.o .operat.or,
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PAUL A. LAYMON
Spokane, Seattle, Por tland,
San Francisco , Salt Lake City
Los Angeles, South West and
Southern California
has disposed of his Wired Music system in
Las Vegas.
Paul Hirschler, Pasadena, has taken over
the operations of George Aristaga in Fresno.
Howard Hong, L. A. operator who has
made the Arcades in Chinatown really spin,
joined the Army and said good·bye to local
coinmen the first part of September. Others
who were in PauL.: Laymon's to say adieu
were M. C. Bledsoe of Santa Barbara, who
is joining the Army; Alex Koleopolus of
Bakersfield who hf'pes he will land as a
Mess Sergeant, for Alex had like experience
in the last fracas; and George Joyce who
was inducted on the 3rd and found himself
appointed as a mili'tary policeman in San
Francisco a few days later.
H. E. Murphy, who opera tes the Arcade
at Crestline, was in on the 9th to buy new
equipment from Laymon and Southwest
Vending for his new Arcade at I ndio.
Lucille Arnold, femme stronghold of the
operating fra ternity at Barstow, made Gut·
shall's, Laymon's, Kaplan's and a couple
of other spo ts on her' first of the month
visit.
L. B. McCreary, of the E. T. Mape Music
Co., is back at his desk following a vacation
visit with his folks in New ·Mexico. Mac
made the trip by air.
Jimmy Flanagan, former mechanic at
Laymon's, is back in harness at the same
post.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kaplan are enjoying
their Canadian vacation. The Kaplans took
it the easy way this year and used the train.
Gone three weeks the office got a card from
Wi'nnipeg that all was well and both were
enjoying being in familiar country aga in.
Harry was born and raised in Canada and
all of his relatives are there. The Kaplans
will spend the New Year's with their rela·
tives and return to Los Angeles about the
first of October. In the meantime, Jimmy
Jones assisted by Marjorie Morgan, are
holding down the home fort and taking care
of operators in the usual Southwest Vend·
ing fashion. When it comes to superior
service Jimmy and Harry have a corner on
the idea and Jimmy is really carrying out
the firm's policy while Harry is away.
Fred White, operator at Visalia, was in
Los Angeles on the 10th to pick up new
equipment.
William McDow, former service man for
Laymon's, is now a Sergeant and is some·
where in Europe. Last letter received
showed that McDow is now across the seas.
M. C. Thornburg, Wasco, called in Los
Angeles the first part of the month to pick
up new equipment.
The 3 Little Sisters record has nothing
on Marjorie Morgan at Southwest Vending.
Take it from Jimmy Jones. Marjorie is in
love wi th a soldier, a sailor and a marine,
and as Jimmy puts it "There hasn't been a
ceiling established on boy scouts." Anyway
Marjorie is a swell kid and as such, takes
a lot of kidding from the lads.
Clyde Flynn was in the first part of Sep·
tember to buy parts for his operations at
Crestline.
Another resort operator in was Ray Rey·
nolds from Big Bear, who reports that th is
season has been the biggest in years for
him.
Arlene Ginse, secretary to Paul Laymon,
was married to Russell Earl on September
7th, and left immediately for a honeymoon
trip to the high Sierras. Arlene will con·
tinue on at Laymon's, in addition to serving
as a Corporal in the Women's Ambulance
Defense Corps.
Mitchell Gouff has purchased Bob Cross·
man's route in San Luis Obispo and reports
business A·I.
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1. C. Spencer, prominent operator of EI
Paso, Texas, has been vacationing in the
West and took time to drop in on his old
friend , Jimmy Jones, at Sou thwest Vending.
As a result Spencer wrote home that a lot
of fi ne equipment was on its way down thar
from SW.Vending.
Jack O'Brien, Mac Sanders former servi'ce
man, is in the Navy and is now at sea .. .
destined for a foreign port .. . according
to letters received.
George Kell ey, Laymon fix·it·up man, is
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2 5-foot Fl oor Model Arcade
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1549 West Pico Boulevard
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FEderal 1919
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