Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

Issue: 1944 March

A Look At The Industry Picture
Today
by Carl Trippe
of Ideal Noyelty Co., Sf. Louis
this particular time it is good to pause
and examine the status of the Coin
II
Machine Industry as it is today-what lies
T
ahead and what the future holds for all
of us.
The employment situation looks very
favorable to us in more ways than one. First
of all, as we see it, all distributors and
jobbers are coasting because of the gas
rationing, tire shortages, loss of mechanics;
and many businesses have closed down.
After the war is over, which we hope will
be soon, all of us will need a lot of hel p,
such as mechanics, route men, salesmen,
chauffeurs, stenographers, shipping clerks,
porters and the like. You can visualize the
huge numbers that will be taken into our
industry in these brackets.
We are also aware of the fact that there
are a great many business locations vacant
in all parts of the country. This includes
restaurants, bars, cocktail lounges and all
types of locations suitable for coin-con-
trolled equipment. When the war is over
the demand will be very great for every
business location, which means the need
for a lot of help. When these business loca-
tions are again occupied it will mean thou-
sands and thousands of new locations for
the operators.
The manufacturers will build finer and
better equipment. With the experience the
manufacturers are deriving from building
implements of war for Uncle Sam they will
get ideas for the future that will be almost
unbelievable. We think the phonographs
and other coin-operated equipment will do
everything but talk. I honestly believe that
the Coin Machine business will be bigger
and better than it ever was. The same goes
for every other business.
The operators must, and will, buy this
new equipment as fast as it is manufac-
tured. Since there have been no new games
built since the war, the operators have a
lot of old games which are worn out. Even
in normal times operators were continually
in need of new equipment. I hope the day
is not far off when all the manufacturers
will be working night and day in order to
supply the demand.
Wins Production Award
MORRIS, III. - Announcements were
mailed out February 1st to the effect that
the Northwestern Corp. has been awarded
the Army-Navy "E" Production Award for
excellence in war production.
Northwestern Corp. is peacetime manu-
facturer of vending equipment.
If You Want
to Buy
One Ball Free Play
SPORTSMAN
- - SEE--
PAUL A. LAYMON
Carl Trippe
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
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MARCH
7944
"Bolly" engineers and workers are proving, daily that their skill-developed in peace-time pro-
duction of coin-operated games and venders-is a valuable asset to America in time of war. And
"Bally's" performance in war production is a forecast of "Bally's" performance in the victorious
future. lion Manufacturing Corporation, Chicago, manufacturers of "Bally" games ond venders.
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New Wonders Ahead
NEW YORK-The coin machine indus-
try will utilize some of the new wonders
developed through war production when it
is all over, according to revelations made
here this month.
Unbreakable records will make their ap-
pearance, according to J. R. Price, chemi-
cal engineer of Carbide and Carbon Chem-
ical Corp., for such records are declared to
by "just one of the many possible uses of
vinyl resin plastics after the war."
A new process has been developed by
E. I. Dupont de Nemours Co. consisting of
a new impregnating treatment whi ch makes
soft woods as hard as plastics. Wood, so
treated, will not warp or swell and is so
hard that it may substitute for steel In
certain machinery parts.
Non·reflecting glass is another item that
will appear in post-war equipment. Accord-
ing to Popular Mechanics "Ordinary glass
transmits about 92 per cent of light; the
remaining 8 per cent being lost through
surface reflection. Much of this "lost" light
is saved by the use of a new chemical whose
composition and method of application are
military secrets at present."
Bally Sponsors Program
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
CHICAGO-The Bally Mfg. Co. spon-
sored a Fourth War Loan program broad-
cast over WGES, Chicago, on Army Day,
January 20th.
Program was part of the firm's contribu-
tion to the Fourth War Loan Drive.
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FOR
MARCH
1944
CHICKEN SAM
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NEW
GIMMICK
GUARD
HOLDS 7 NICKLES
SPEEDS PLAY
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plus
Special Built-in
Feature
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PROTECT COIN CHUTES AGAINST THE "SH IM ARTIST"
SEND CHUTES TODAY
• WE RETURN PROMPTLY!
" GIMMICK GUARDING" • •
I to 5 chuteL .............. _ ..... $6.85 each
6 or more ...... _ .... __ .. _.......... 5.85 each
1/ 3 De posit With O rd er
We pay posta ge o ne way.
Additional charge for r e-condit ioning
Used Chutes-$1.00 plus pa r t s.
NICKLE NUDGER CO.
Portland 14. Ore.
527 5. E. Stark
Paper Conservation Vital
WASHINGTON - Unless American in·
dustry reduces its tonn~e consumption of
printing paper sharply during the first
three months of 1944, there is grave danger
that certain types of printing will have to
be restricted or eliminated altogether. This
information comes from the Joint Com-
mittee on Government Relations of the
Commercial Printing Industry of the U. S.,
which, with the support of the WPB, is
conducting a vigorous printing paper con·
servation program.
Already Canada has sharply restricted
the "end-use" of printing paper and cer-
tain types of advertising have heen elimi-
nated entirely; most printing is subject to
licensing restrictions and before printing
jobs can be ordered an applica tion must be
made to a rationing board.
For the first quarter of 1944 the printing
industry of the U. S. has been allocated 75
per cent of the paper tonnage used during
the comparable period in 1941.
Causes of the paper shortage are pri-
marily lack of manpower to cut pulp wood
and a breakdown in paper salvage efforts.
During the war vast quantities of paper are
used for packaging of materials sent over-
seas. This paper is not salvaged and the
box manufacturers have been on short
rations for some months; inventories are
very low.
Two immediate steps are urged upon all
buyers of printing: 1. Utmost conservation
of printing paper; 2. Cooperation with the
publishers' waste paper salvage campaign.
It is suggested that every industry, office
and plant set up committees on paper
conservation and paper salvage and that a
procedure be worked out for the control
of all buying and salvage operations. Print-
ers should be called upon as technical con-
sultants in this work.
AOA Elects Officers
NEW YORK- At a business meeting
held at the Abbey Hotel on January 26th
the Arcade Owners' Association elected
officers for the 1944 term. Al Blendow was
named president; Louis Fox, first vice-
president; Sam Holtzman, second vice·
president; Al Peterson, third vice·presi-
dent; Nat Faber, fourth vice-president ;
Charlie Rubenstein, fifth vice·president; Al
Meyers, recording secretary; Milton Weiss-
man , corresponding secretary; Bernard
Katz, treasurer, and Herman Brothers,
counselor.
Regional directors elected included Mc-
Kim Smith, New Jersey; Joe A h, P ennsyl-
vania; Morris Hankin, Southeastern terri-
tory; Ken Wilson, Southwestern district,
and Henry Freedman, Northwestern dis-
tri ct.
New members accepted into membership
included Harry Rosenthal, Pittsburgh;
Louis Appel, Cleveland; Bernard Pagluighi,
Detroit; R E. Everschor, Columbus, Ohio;
Jack C. Meyers, Ogden, Utah; A. 1. Miller,
Elmira, N. Y.; and S. B. Ramogosa, Phila·
delphia.
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"We're giving the bride a shower."
"Count me in. I'll bring the soap."
OPERATORS
"The Victory Model"
Axis Rats on the Run
A Posit i ve Sensation
A Deluxe Conversion
Unit co nsists of a new wooden fiber figure
and wooden legs and tail. Figure reverses
showing a Jap-Rat on one side and Hitler-
the-Rat on the other. Beautiful new scenery
and streamer in sixteen colors is furnished
with each unit. All units thoroughly check-
ed and ready for easy installation .
For complete unit. F.O . B. San
Antonio. Terms: 50% with order-
payment in full saves C .O . D. fee .
SAMPLES SOLD WITH MONEY-BACK
GUARANTEE
DELU XE JAP CO N VERSI ON S FOR BALLY
SHOOT THE BULL, BALLY RAPID FIRE .
$15.00 each with new scenery .
Bona fide distributors. write.
Manufadured exclusively by
$15 00
Hnrold W. Thompson
( Seeb urg Distri but or!
4 15 Car olina St. SAN ANTONIO 3, TEX.
THAT BOY AT THE FRONT
DON'T LET YOUR IDLE SCRAP
LET HIM DOWN!
• Whenever it's been a question
of "Him" or "Me" we Home
Fronters have been quick to
chorus "Him"!
• Your Scrap can keep the steel
mills humming in full tune
with the needs of the War Pro-
duction program.
• IT'S UP TO YOU!
• Now, it's not Meat, not Gaso-
lille, not Rubber, but-YOUR
IDLE SCRAP!
Dig in! Ta ke another look! Get out your
obsolete scrap!
-U nused Tool s an d Eq uipment
-Out·of-Work Mac hines
-Jigs. Dies, Fixt ures, etc.
BUSINESS PRESS INDUSTRIAL SC RAP COMM ITTEE
ROOM 1033
NEW YORK 20, N. Y .
50 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA
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