COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
34
FOR
OCTOBER
1943
Bud Parr, General Music head, returned
October 10th from a four week trip that
took him to Seattle and various parts of the
Pacific Northwest on his defense activity.
Returning home Bud had a chance to spend
a week with Ernie Brennan at the San
Francisco offices of General Music.
Glenn Wallichs, general manager of Cap·
itol Records, is back in Hollywood after a
lengthy business trip through the East.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gordon, San Diego,
visited with the Paul Laymons the first
week of October on a stop·over on their
vacation trip to San Francisco.
Ed Zukrow, stationed with the Air Corps
in the western sector, spent a day in early
October with Bill Happel at Badger. Zuk·
row is a former Milwaukee operator.
Paul A. Reardon has opened a Funland
Arcade in the east side of Los Angeles ali
North Ford Boulevard.
J. H. Whitted, Williams, Ariz., visited
local jobbing establishments in September
in search of equipment.
Gus Fox, San Diego, found help was as
difficult to find here as in his own home
town. After looking around he went home
without his men.
Bill Happel left here on the 13th for a
trip of a week or two to Independence,
Bishop, San Joaquin and Sacramento val·
ley towns and the San Francisco area.
Happel has a lot of equipment headed this
way but not due to arrive until the end of
the month so he utilized the in· between
time to get out in the field and see some
of the boys on home ground.
Barry Beauregard is now a Corporal ac·
cording to information received here. Barry
formerly opera ted marble tables in the
county but is now in 'the South Pacific
theater of war.
"What are you crying about?" is Bud
Parr's quick retort to an operator's com·
plaint on rationing, tire shortage and the
like. "Our forefa thers," says Bud, "did
without sugar until the 13th century, with·
out coal fires until the 14th century, with·
out buttered bread until the 15th century,
without potatoes until the 16th, without
coffee, tea and soap until the 17th. without
pudding until the 18th, without gas, matches
and electricity until the 19th, without
canned goods until the 20th and we have
had automobiles for only a few years. Now,
what was it you were complaining about?"
John Jackson, Long Beach, has been reo
leased by the army, and was in for a look-
see on the equipment outlook.
Jack Gutshall started a fresh mustache a
few days before leaving on his hunting trip.
The coin machine fra ternity look for a nice
growth of brush on his upper lip when he
returns on the 25th.
Lieutenant Jerry O'Neil. former music
operator, enjoyed a short furlough in Los
Angeles and is now back on his ship in
the U. S. Maritime Service. Jerry was well
decorated with ribbons emblematic of servo
ice in several different parts of the world
during the past year.
'
Lucille Arnold, Barstow, spent her vaca·
tion for this year hob·nobbing with the coin
lads and lassies of San Francisco.
Al Weymou th, who has confined his ac·
tivi ties to cigarettes princinally in the past,
has taken on a marble table route and pur·
chased the operation of Billy Mason in
Santa Monica.
L ucille and Paul Laymon made the
October 15th deadline and got Christmas
gifts off to a number of their old customers
now serving across the seas in our armed
forces.
Sam Oser, who sold his marble table
route and joined the service, despite his 51
years, about eighteen months ago, is back
home with a medical discharge from the
army. Oser expects to go back in the op-
erating business. He was with the Yanks on
the invasion of Africa and saw six months
of service there. In addition Oser is a vet-
eran of the first World War.
Frank Anderson, Honolulu operator,
made the mainland in October and visited
the various local jobbing outlets.
Mr. and Mrs. 1. A. Ewing, Bakersfield,
dropped into town in early part of the
month with th ree of their girl operators
and mechanics, in search of equipment.
They headquartered at Laymon's. The
Ewings are quite proud of the way in which
they have broken in women to take care of
the jobs men used to handle in their
operations.
Last of September we had a really ho t
day-remember? In mid-afternoon Jack
Gutshall called THE REVIEW offices and
made his wants known without delay by
exclaiming: "Got anything cold to drink
over there?" Back came the answer:
"We've got plenty of bourbon but no mix."
Ten minutes passed and in came Jack with
a case of Coca-Cola. Needless to say, desks
were cleaned and business suspended for
the rest of the afternoon. Now we're waiting
for another hot day.
Frank Navarro is getting ready to make
anoth er flying trip to his operations in
Mexico Ci ty and the Federal District. Frank
says Mexico Ci ty is heaven on earth these
days. No rationing, no gasoline shortage,
plen ty of mea t, liquor, nylon hose and
beautiful senoritas. Apparently Charlie
Robinson believes the same for he is now
in the Mexican capitol for the second time
this year.
Business at General Music has been ex-
ceptionally good for the past mon th , ac-
cording to Fred Gaunt. Bud Parr has been
getting ou t in the field and buying up
equi pment. The past month has been very
brisk tao in the buying and selling of a
number of routes.
Add to out-of-towners in for a look-see
and needed equipment: Bert Hammond,
Santa Ana; Frank Hardy, Oxnard; Perry
Irwin, Ventura; Dannie Jackson, Pismo
Beach; Allen McMahon, San Jacinto;
Floyd Knudsen, Fresnb; Archie Freeman,
Oceanside; Chris Torrez, Westmoreland;
I. B. Gay~r, San Bernardino; Del George,
Palm Spnngs; Geral,d Cooper, Riverside:
Mike Goreff, Templeton; Charles Peverly,
Oxnard; Barney McCoy, Sacramento;
Clark Shaw, Long Beach and George Whee-
lock, San Diego.
D. D. Patton, Turlock, has sold out his
music to the Modern Music Co.
,
Bill LeBahn, Orange, has sold part of his
music business. Bill wants to give more
time to raising oranges.
"Tessie,
the
bow-legged
secretary,
shouldn't feel too bad," says Fred Gaunt,
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GREENVILLE, OHIO
"for many a sucker has been caught on
bent pins!"
Bill Wolf, San Diego, makes regular trips
between his San Diego and Los Angeles
offices of California Amusement Co. Opera·
tors from all parts of the southland have
called on the local office to pick up some
equipment and wish the new office well.
Laymon Reports Activity
LOS ANGELES-Any thought that the
Coin Machine Industry sales in jobber and
distributor circles would shrink into an in·
significant volume after 22 months of total
war, was knocked into a cocked hat this
week when Paul A. Laymon, local jobber
and distributor, revealed that sales have
been above par and far exceeding expec·
tations.
"Right after Pearl Harbor and the months
fo llowing, a lot of our operators pruned
their routes or sold them altogether. They
were draft conscious and had other propo·
sitions presented them wherein they could
domestically serve the nation more ade·
quately in its wartime effort. This condi·
tion, while still existent, is being adjusted
somewhat and many of the boys, honorably
discharged, are resuming their operations
again and looking for equipment. Then,
too, the operators who went into war work
find they still have time to take care of a
modest operation in a restricted area and
the old 'love of the coin chute' is bringing
them back to the fold . Consequently our
sales are way up for thi's time of the year
and we're very happy about the situation.
"The OPA regulations did not affect the
marble table jobber as much as some oth er
branches of the business," Laymon con·
tinued. "Our games were mostly below
ceiling before the regulations became ef·
fective.
"Right now we're doing a marvelous bus·
iness with operators in Oregon, Washing·
ton, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas in ad·
dition to our local state. REVIEW advertising
has focused operators' attention on our or·
ganization and we are adding many new
friends and customers in the Western area.
We are also shipping considerable equip·
ment to our customers in the Hawaii'an
Islands.
"A hit number with us today is Sullivan·
Nolan's Sportsman. It lives up to every·
thing the refurbisher says about it and it is
worthy of the operator's consideration. We
are also enjoying a nice run on two new
conversions-Bomb th e Axis Rats for Star
Attraction, and Bombardier for Victory. In
addition sale of coin wrappers has been
particularly active and despite paper short-
ages we have been able to supply them in
large quan tities."
Tonedart Needle Offered
CHICAGO-J. F . Bard, Midwest distrib-
utor for Continental and Musicraft records
has taken on th e national sales of the ne~
Tonedart permanent phonograph needle.
Developed by William H. Hu tter, sound
and mechan ical engineer for the Rock-
Ola Manufacturing Corp., the needle is the
first of several Tonedart products to be of-
fered operators.
H.u tter worked for three years on per-
fectmg the needle. Its dartlike shape, he
con tends, offers a certain springiness and
elasticity which assures a floating effect
upon the record played and the least pos-
sible wear to the record.
Actual tests show the needle capable of
excellent performance on from 2500 to
2750 plays and 260 plays on one record.
Tests made in San Francisco by M. A.
Pollard & Co. show the same surprisingre-
sults and reports have been received from
servicemen showing plays of over 5000
records per needle,
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