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FOR
JUNE
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LOS ANGELES-Anything can happen
in California. Rounding up this column
we can testify to that statement. Oper-
ators from north of San Francisco were in
town to try to buy equipment, phonograph
distributors were delivering parts and plas-
tic to marble game specialists, and all in
all, with apologies to the Chamber of Com-
merce, "it WEIS most unusual."
The Spring season got underway with a
bang and now with the advent of summer
the Arcade industry is flourishing and op-
erators, in general, have set their sails for
a profitable cruise in th e months ahead.
Indicative of the "profit" claim was the
revealing of new homes in Laurel Canyon
purchased during the past month by Jack
McClelland and Jack Henderson of Wil-
shire Amusement Co. Wilshire is a wired
music organization.
Stanley Harris and Al Ezor are now op-
erating a machine shop on Melrose and
con tributing their part to the war effort.
The team have a new Wurlitzer replace-
ment gear which debuts in this issue.
As usual, the guest log at Paul Laymon's
resembles the Blue Book of operators in
these parts. We waited until Homer Gil-
lespie, Long Beach; 1. W. Olson, San Pe-
dro; Bob Cardiff, San Miguel; and Har-
old Presher, San Diego; were waited upon
before we found out that ALL of these
knights of the coin ch ute had preceded us
in the two weeks past: Paul Butts and
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Gerson, Bakersfield;
Carl Collard, San Bernardino; D. C. Pat-
ton, Turlock; Ed Sullivan, Oceanside;
Mrs. Phil Brown, Bakersfield; William
Shorey, San Bernardino; Ray Smith, Bar-
stow; John Patrick, Santa Maria; Ray
Wherrit, San Luis Obispo; the J. A. Ew-
ings of Bakersfield; Jack Beaver, Oxnard;
William Sparrow, Santa Barbara; McDon-
ald of McDonald and Mason Arcade, Long
Beach; Joe Grater, Oxnard; and W. Ellis
Johnson, Claremont.
Bert Lane, well known coin machine
personality in the New England States, ar-
rived in Los Angeles on April 29th and
took up residence at the Hollywood Knick-
erbocker. Bert ' phoned THE REVIEW and
revealed he was here on busi ness and
pleasure and might stay on a while.
Harry A. Kaplan, of Southwestern Vend-
ing Machine Co., has entered the wholesale
liquor field and is now operating the
Southwest Distributing Co., in th e store
next door to Southwestern Vending.
Budd Parr of General Music, was in
Bakersfield l n May 3rd and helped oper-
ators, up San Joaquin way, understand the
values available at th e Frank Root Home
fo r Girls.
Turn-over in help continues to be brisk.
1944
One operating organization in Visalia
hired a "very reliable" individual and
se nt him out for a day's collections. Re-
sult: said individual used the $300 he
coll ected to move himself on to another
town to defraud ano ther operator. Now, as
in peacetime, it pays to bond your men.
Right here in Los Angeles a chap came
along and presented enough ability to get
.on th e Paul Laymon payroll. Next day he
came in with a long, sad tale of woe con-
cerning his landlady and misfortunes that
had befallen him. Generous and be-friend-
ing Paul advanced th e lad $25.00. Result:
Laymon needs a man to fill the spot he
vacated.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Weinstein, who have
several Arcades in th e state of Washing-
ton , made it South during the past month
to buy equipment.
Bill Corcoran arrived in Los Angeles,
with th e missus, on April 27th after four
weeks in Mexico. Within four hours Bill
was over to THE REVIEW and the inter-
of the Industry
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