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Costa Mesa; P . C. Allen, Hermosa Beach;
Jack Burch, Lancaster; Wm. Owen, Jr.,
Stockton, and Frank Hardy, Oxnard, to
mention only a few.
Ben Corenblum has been entertaining his
81·year-old mother who is here on a visit
from Alabama.
Happy Clark of the Downey Amusement
Co. took to the moun tains for his vaca-
tion; and likewise did Homer Gillespie
who spent some time in the High Sierras.
M. J. Bringas and M. J. Trevino of the
Oxnard Music Co., loaded equipment on
Coin Row on the 14th.
Frank Matthews, former Hanford oper-
ator now in the service, spent part of his
10-day leave .from a camp in Mississippi
calling on local coinmen.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Laymon entertained
Mr. and Mrs. John Patrick, Santa Maria,
for a social evening recently.
Glenn McCarter, Calimesa, is busting his
buttons telling of his new baby boy. Makes
the third boy for the McCarters. Bing,
move over.
Badger Sales continues its international
LOCKS
KEY RINGS
NICKEL NUDGERS
(Convenient ChanC)e DevIce)
LIGHT BULBS FOR
GAMES (ALL SIZES)
-Befor~ Buying See-
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business. Representatives from the Phono-
matic Co., Mexico Ci'ty, are here at present
arranging with Badger for a steady sched-
ule of shipments of used equipment to
Mexico as new equipment replaces the used
in this country. Del Barkhuff, Honolulu,
has been buying heavily also now that boats
are taking on quantities of cargo of all
types. Several operators have been in
lately inquiring as to when Rock-Olas will
be ready for delivery and "biting their
nails" awaiting the new equipment.
Don Roarty is the new West Coast sales-
man for Harlich and is now on the road
calling on jobbers and operators with a big
line of beautiful money boards and plain
boards. Roarty has many years of ex-
perience in this field as a background of
service he will r~der the trade.
Bill Wolf, of California Amusement, is
leaving Los Angeles on Sept. 10th for a
business trip to Chicago.
Rudy Greenbaum, K.ansas City, pre-
sented an informal showing of new mod-
ern designs in coin machines at the Holly-
wood Roosevelt on August 18th to an in-
vi ted clien tele.
Lou Favorite, veteran operator and or-
ganizer, called on the boys on The Row
August 16th. Lou has been a superin·
tenden t at the shipyards for the past 3
years helping to build Uncle Sam's battle
wagons.
Bill Happel drove to Big Bear August
17th for the weekend and intended to
spend some time with Ray Reynolds. Bill
called on the boys in San Bernardino also.
San Francisco
Last month's column, desc'riblng present
and potential activities of the newly formed
Associated Music Operators, Inc., caused
some anxiety and perplexed the members
of the California Music Operators Associa·
don . George A. Miller, state president of
California Music Operators Association was
bombarded by questions via wire and tele·
phone. Subsequently Miller called on us
and asked to clarify the situation. Miller
emphasized the following points: there is
NO rivalry between the two organizations,
and no intention to infringe on each other's
respective territories. As both organizations
have for their goal the betterment of the
industry, and as the heads of the two or·
ganizations, Mr. Miller and Mr. Varley
hold each other in great esteem, a spirit of
friendly cooperation had been established.
Miller stated that headquarters of Califor-
nia Music Operators Associ'ation in Oak-
land, and its activities extend from there
to the Nevada line, \lnd again, starting
from Bakersfield, through Fresno, Madera,
Merced, Turlock, Modesto, Stockton, Sacra-
mento, Roseville, Marysville, Chico, Red
Bluff, Redding, Dunsmuir, Shasta, Yreka,
and all up to the Oregon line.
Miller spoke eloquently about the serv-
ices his organization had rendered to the
industry and the war effort. According to
him, " the California Music Operators Asso-
ciation has put the automatic phonograph
business on a sound and legal basis and
has represented the music industries on
state legislation for the past eleven years
as well as defeating many unfair city and
county tax ordinances which would have
eliminated phonographs from mimy of the
smaller locations." Pertinent to supporting
the war effort, Miller stated: "From the be-
ginning of the war the California Music
Operators Association spent many thou-
sands of dollars toward entertaining the
service men and doing various things for
service men and their families. We have
donated sixteen automatic phonographs for
the duration to various hospitals, Red Cross
chapters, and service men's organizations.
For about a year and a half we furnished
four motion pictures a month to the Oak
Knoll Naval Hospital and put on many
vaudeville shows for other service men's
clubs." Details of a $5,437.00 Red Cross do-
nation were publicized in last month's RE-
VIEW. The latest project is to sponsor a new
tile shower and bath room at a cost of
about $1500.00 for one of the Navy Moth-
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