SAN FRANCISCO
COIN
MACH/NI!
REVIEW
66
FOR
NOVEMBER
1945
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the Buckley Wall Box Music System (for
which General Music Co. is distributor),
in order to get first-hand information just
what the prospects are. Brennan stated
that they had been entirely cleaned out of
the diversified equipment and games still
in stock a month ago. All that is available
at present are some reconditioned Buckley
Music Boxes and a few Hideaways.
We had hoped to have some great news
for this issue from Tony Farina, R. A.
Farina and Co., distributors for Arthur H.
DuGrenier, Inc., about additional fran-
chised lines awarded the firm. However,
due to the many uncertainties of the times
ftJrther delays have become inevitable.
Associated Music Operators, Inc., are
having a dinner party on October 25th at
the Riviera Restaurant, 926 Union Street.
Several city officials have been invited as
guest speakers. An excellent dinner and
elaborate entertainment are planned. Pur-
pose of the dinner party is to bring about
a closer correlation between industry mem-
bers and their families, and to get city
officials better acquainted with the aims
and the scope of the activities of the auto-
matic music merchants. Tickets may be
purchased at the Associated Music Opera-
tors headquarters, 1355 Market Street, and
at the Viki'ng Specialty Co., 530 Golden
Gate Ave.
Sarkis Sarkisina, Oakland operator, took
a six weeks' vacation in the East, and re-
turned accompanied by a brand new bride.
His many friends offer hearty congratula-
tions.
Nathan Robinson, San Francisco opera-
tor, has been honorably discharged from
the Army, and has returned to his home
here.
Gisela Ney
S eattl e
With the paper shortage and all, we don't
doubt that this column has served a lot of
unorthodox purposes during the war years.
When winds howled, what better use than
to quash those drafty apertures? For pack-
ing goods-well, why not? And there were
days when tissue paper was awfully hard to
buy.
Our ego came to the fore and whispered
that the column was read, widely read; but
our ego was never made to withstand the
shock of learning that the feature perform-
ance of Lyle Tenney's farewell party con-
sisted of a loud sonorous reading of the
September notes. No fooli'n' ! Boss George
Schnabel mounted a chair and instead of a
soap box oration on whatever soap box ora-
tors soft-soap 'em with, he pulled out THE
REVIEW and commenced to give 'em your
correspondent's word slingings. Chairside
reports reveal that the program was enjoyed
by all, but we weren't there, Sharlie, so
there's no telling how much liquid the page
had to be saturated with before it was en-
thusiastically received.
Four years ago Elmer Teahan sold his
digger and pin game holdings in Seattle and
moved to Portland. He dittoed in the Rose
City and headed for California. The draft
board was getting quite chummy by that
time so Elmer payrolled at Alameda's Naval
Air Station as electronics maintenance man.
Now that the board has lost interest, Elmer's
back in the Pacific Northwest anxious for a
re-baptism into Coinland.
The "For Sale" shingle has been pulled
down from Northwest Sales and the Pepples
will see it through until "D" Day when Ron
receives that little slip of paper which says
Uncle wants him no more. At present he's
armying in Ketchikan, Alaska, while wife
Hazel keeps 'em coining in Seattle.
Merchant Marineman Morrie Dickinson
was aboard ship in Leyte when the VJ lid
blew. "What a show!" Morrie enthused.
"Every army, navy, marine and coast
guardsman used every piece of equipment
and every shell to put on a spectacle that
looked like a combination of every Fourth
of July celebration ever held. If that had
been a false alarm and there was still a
war on, I wonder what the guys would've
used for ammunition." Formerly service
mechanic with Johnny Michael, Morrie is
eyeing the field for a favorable opening.
All right, you out-of-towners, check your
name and address at the door before enter-
ing the Gateway City to the Great North-
west: Bill Baker, Ellensburg; the Farrell
brothers-Charley from Mt. Vernon and
Bob from Oak ·Harbor; the latter half of
Pasco's Wise and Laymon team; Leo De-
lorne, Yakima; L. C. Foisy, Prosser; Har-
old Fowler, Puyallup.
Discussions and counter-discussions on the
men who vend candy, gum, nuts and ciga-
rettes, their war problems and how they
met them has been adequately covered; but
now comes the unbelievable story of a mer-
chandising problem that wasn't a problem
until VE Day and which became progres-
sively worse by the time V-J Day arrived,
until now it's really a rough rassle. We're
referring to the oft-forgotten popcorn pop-
pers. The boys were getting all the short-
ening they required until Germany caved;
the fat kept thinning until the popping pol-
icy reached the point where few orders
could be filled unless shortening was fur-
nished first.
Fifty p~rcent of the twin bundles due at
Decca arrived three weeks late, which is still
a lot earlier than the other fifty is expected.
QUICK SERVICE
James Marshall Huffine, tipping the beams
at six pounds ten and a half ounces, was
checked into the incoming stock file long
before the expectant deluge of records.
He sold his palatial home for $35,000 and
his pin game route to Johnny Michael for
around twenty grand and hied off to Los
Angeles to bask in retirement; but wounds
inflicted by the persistent biting of the coin
bug over a period of six months drew lr".ing
Stept back to familiar Seattle settings. So
he bought a route from Johnny Michael (a
different one than he sold). and is now
happy and gaming.
Amid shrouds of secrecy rivaling the
atomic bomb, Ken Shyvers has been busy
for four years perfecting a musical product.
The wily inventive genius clapped a nine-
year lease on a 90 by 100 foot studio in
Bremerton and imported some of his mate-
rial from England. The result will combine
the best features of automatic phonographs
and wired music, with the long-awaited un-
veiling slated for January 1.
Many a day a close shave almost robbed
Jerry Steffen of the few stray bristles his
upper lid tried to convince the world was a
mustache, but last month, when the dentist
recommended Yank for all his teeth, Jerry
threw in the sponge-and the bristles too-
and made a clean sweep of both mustache
and molars. To help forget the double
tragedy, Op Stan Fehrenbacher's ace me-
chanic oiled his rifle and will soon be on the
way to Winthrop, Wash., where the deer
and the antelope play.
No one can apply that sad lament, "Too
little and too late," to Puget Sound Nov-
elty, who are going all out in their efforts to
establish a successful beachhead on the
post-war trade. Reinforcements recently ar-
rived include former Boeing Foreman Art
Mullens; discharged vet Mike Conley, who
radio-oped for General Spaatz at HQ Sqn
USSTAF and saw action in six major cam-
paigns, including Normandy; Berl Main,
ex-merchant marine officer and machinist
for Boeing and Vultee Aircraft; Boeing's
one-time radar expert Les Kometz; and
Office Worker Dorothy Hill, who left the
insurance business for a better insurance
business.
Jack Howlett, the man who installed the
first radio broadcasting station in Seattle
and who subsequently designed the famous
Ray Gun and other electronic features for
Mills, Keeney, Bally and Guardian, walked
into the World of Tomorrow and came out
with this statement: "All plants have star-
tling developments on their drawing boards
-a direct result of their participation in
the war effort. Some units will feature
electronics in a fascinating manner."
Jack's latest contribution to the World of
Today is perfecting an electronic unit for
schools which provides a multi-band radio
of both short and long wave, plays an edu-
cational transcription and a standard record
on a dual-speed turntable, and will also sup-
ply the facilities of sound control for stage,
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