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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
54
FOR
DECEMBER
1944
The election is over and the morning
after found many a Republican converted
to · a Democra t over night. Some tall bets
were mad e in several of th e contests but
the presidential campaign drew the big
money and payoffs were qui et and order-
ly. A true democracy at work.
Post-war plans continue to haunt the
jobbing and distributing fraternity in the
City of the An gels. Latest to stake out a
place for himself in the post-war picture
is Charlie Robinson of C. A. Robinson
& Co. Charlie has purchased th e 7-store
building on the northwest corner of Pico
and Magnolia ; will re-do th e inside and
out, and move in shortly after the first
of the yeaT. This makes the 2200 an d
2300 block on Pico a hot bed of jobbers
a nd distributors. Badger Sales, California
Amusement and C. A. Robinso n will pitch
camp with General Music in th e middle.
Says General's prexy, Bud Parr: "I'm
going to hoist a sign on th e front of my
establishment: 'Main Entrance. Right this
way boys. Everything worthwhile is in th e
center ring.' ••
Further out th e street, at 2525 West
Pico to be exact, is the new de luxe hom e
of Nick Carter's Nickabob Sales Co. Nick
has gone all out in picking a dandy spot
Largest Business
Shipman's Coin-Operated
Postage Stamp Disp,ensers
We Have Them in Stoc:k-$29.50
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PAUL A. LAYMON
DISTRIBUTOR
right in the middle of the row. He is re-
;amping his big building and dressing up
the spot in a man ner which will be a
definite asset to the industry.
Enough for the big-wigs of the business
. .. let's talk about operators for a few
minutes. Barry Beauregard was in at
Washburn's the first of the month looking
over equipment. Barry has received a
• /medical discharge after two and a half
~years of service.
~ G_eorge Cul~er is back in _ Calexico f?l -
~lowmg a business trip which took hm,
~ to . El Paso.
} Mr. and Mrs. Al Cooper parented a
baby boy born on October 22nd.
In Pasadena, Arch C. RiddeJI has
moved th e headquarters for his cigarette
operation to the firm's new and enlarged
building at 140-150 North Fair Oaks. The
Riddell firm purchased the building and
so me of the space will be devoted to tµ eir
wholesale tobacco and ca ndy business. A
parking space is provided at the left of
the buildfog.
Most of the cigarette operators with
machines in the shipyards have pulled
their machin es. Seems th ere is nothing
tougher than a shipyard worker, when it
comes to r espect for a coin-operated de-
vice. If a penny box of matches fails to
co me out, said ship -worker thinks nothing
of taking a crow-bar and leaving evidence
of hi s di sgust, which puts a $150 machine
in the backroom. Since the cigarette short-
age the boys have been really releasin g
their wrath on the vendors and the opera-
tors don't have to play ball with such
naughty boys.
In on a purchasing trip were Bert Ham -
mond, Santa Ana; B. L. Kolda, San Ber-
nardino; Al Harmon, Glendale; F. E.
Kingsbury, Santa Ana, and Carl Collard,
San Berdu.
Dolores and Jean Minthorne are th e
proud recipi ents of some unusual war
trophies sent to them by former operator
Roger R. Kent, now somewhere in France.
Included in the group are two French
bayonets, two German bayonets, I Italian
bayonet and a German flag mine marker.
Talk about sharp . . . you should feel the
blade on those bayonets the Germans
make.
R. A. Parina, San Francisco, visited
Los Angeles on October 30th on his re-
turn from the NAMA meeting in Chicago.
Dick called at THE REVIEW offices and
gave an inklin g of the post-war plans of
R. A. Parina and Co., and, boy .. . they're
rugged ( as they say in the army). Dick
left on November 2nd for home. While
here he stopp ed at th e Los An geles Ath-
letic Club.
Orval Wakefield, cousin of Gladys
Washburn, is back in the States after
three major invasions. He received a pres-
idential citation.
Wednesday night is a "must" for Mr.
and Mrs. Charlie Robinson at the Abe
Roth Amateur Boxing at Hollywood Le-
gion Stadium. Charlie makes it to the
barber at 5, meets the frau thereafter for
an appetizing drink or two at the Derby,
th en dinn er and over to the Stadium for
10 4-round bouts packed wi th plenty of
action. "These boys are out to make a
name for themselves and they really are
in th ere and wasting no time," claims
Charlie. Check up on that! Charlie has
passes. .
One of the happiest warriors on Coin
Row is Preston Jarrell, who puts out the
Welcome Mat at Coinmatic Distributors
each morning. Preston is back in the har-
ness and greeting a multitude of friends
and telling them about the big plans
Coinmatic has for the fu ture. Boss-man
Ken Brown puts in an appearance a cou-
ple of tim es a week, mainly to say heJlo.
Opening of ' the races at Inglewood
brou ght out the gentry of the coin chute.
Even THE REVIEW lost a couple of good
linotype operators. Occupying J. P. See-
burg's box, and sharing his company,
were Dolores and J ean Minthorne, and
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Donohue.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Stemler left on
th e Lark, on the 10th, for San Francisco
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