being used by Vendo will be consolidated
after the aluminum plant is occupied. E.
F. Pierson, president, has been in Cincin-
nati obtaining equipment and materials
for the new plant.
to be open for business at its new quar·
ters, 2532 W. Pi co Blvd., by the first of
April, according to Bill Abel.
Jack Simon, Sicking Distributiilg Co.,
recently went on an auto trip to Palm
Dev Thatcher Springs, Riverside, San Bernardino and
other wayside points, visiting a number of
operators. Simon reports much Interest in
all types of new coin·operated games.
Highlighting Coin Machine Activities
There's a great market in the outlying
in this area the past . month have been
communities, says Simon, waiting for ' all
the showings of the new Aireon and Rock-
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types of new equipment.
Ola phonographs. Three distributors had
Walter Hedenberg, representative for
the new Aireon on display. Jack Gutshall
Coast Record, is back in town after a
went all out with special talent augmenting
very successful journey up the San Joaquin
the music via the new instrument. On hand
Valley and return by way of the Coast.
were Leon Rene and Herb Jeffries of the
Bill Abel says Coast records are now
Exclusive Record label, and Otis Rene
represented in every store of any conse-
of Excelsior Records who favored with
quence In the State of California. Chester
numbers of their own. Various artists ' Wiser has done a terrific job for Coast
dropped in throughout the day and night
Record in Texas, according to Bill. Orders
to partake of the barbecued . elk, turkey,
froIp. the Lone Star State are in greater
ham, and liquid refreshments. Proceedings
volume than ever before. Chester is now
came to a close with a surprise visit by
off for a jaunt through Oklahoma, Ar-
Homer Capehart, Chairman of the Board
kansas, Wyoming and Nevada.
of Packard, who dropped in to see many
Leonard Micon, Pacific ' Coast Distribu-
of his old friends in the music business.
tors, reports considerable interest in the
On Pico Street the. Nickabob Co. was
new H. C. Evans machines, wi't h orders
the hot spot showing the Aireon machine
coming in at a nice clip. Leonard has
and providing plenty to eat and drink.
installed the new Packard "Out of This
Navarro Distributing Co. on the East side
World" speaker in his show room. The
of town had a beautiful showing of Aireon
speaker is about 30" in diameter, glass
with dellcious food and refreshments. All
enclosed and hung from the center of the
in all, the three handled the job in first
ceiling. When coin Is deposited in phono-
class fashion.
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graph or wall box, the speaker revolves,
The new 1946 Rock-Ola arrived at Bad-
throwing multi· colored light.s over the ceil-
ger Sales March 13th and a steady stream
ing. Promises to be a novel and effective
of operators visited the place to examiRe
play-promoter. Among the operators who
the machine and place orders. During the
recently have visited Len's show rooms are
first two days Bill Happel wrote up orders
Ed Seaman of San Bernardino, Walter
totaling six carloads.
Keene of Taft. Tab Simonson of Bakers-
A cocktail party was held in honor of
field, George Joyce, AI Reese, and Jerry
Homer Capehart at the Ambassador Hotel.
Gould.
More than 100 were in attendance to pay
Sandra Jean is the name of an 8 pound,
their respects to Homer. Party was spon-
8 ounce bundle of loveliness which made
sored by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Washburn.
her appearance at 8 :30 a.m. on the 8th to
Lou Favorite has opened a shooting gal-
warm the heart.s of Mr. and Mfs. Jimmie
lery at 631 S. Main 5t. Lou has formed
Rutter. Rutter is happily passi~g out the
a firm known as the S. & F. Investment
stogies, so drop in at Operator's Service
Co. to operate galleries in Chinatown and
and get yours.
elsewhere. Spots are using McGlashan guns.
Al Armos, Golden Gate Novelty, San
W. J . Farwell has purchased the re-
mainder of the cigarette machines on the
Francisco, was in town on the 15th visiting
former routes of the Nickabob Sales Co.
jobbers.
Charley Washburn has just returned
in Visalia.
from a business trip "south of the border"
Aubrey Stemler has taken over the
in the interest of Peerless Discos and
space formerly occupied by DeLoss Osborn
at 2323 W. Pi co Blvd. Aubrey will handle
other matters.
used equipment-but he expects to make
Coast. Record Manufacturing Co. expects
Los Angeles
an important .announcement about an en-
tirely new line within a short time.
E. C. McNeil is planning to have a
model of the new National Vendors · cig-
arette merchandiser on exhibition at the
National Association of Tobacco Distribu-
tors convention to be held early in May in
San Francisco. On the personal side, Mac
recently sold his home in Leimert Park
(at a nice profit, it says here) and has
installed himself in a Hollywood apartment
house.
The Paul A. Laymon establishment has
been a mad house the past month with
scads of operators in. Among the hundreds
were: Mr. and Mrs. Art Sternall, La Mesa;
Ralph Schaeffer, Bakersfield; O. C. Cross-
land, Phoenix; Claude Tomlinson, Farmers·
ville; Jack Hull, Carl Collard, William
Shorey, Stuart Metz and Eddie Seaman,
San Bernardino; M. C. Stewart, Big Bear;
Dick Sharpe, Santa Ana; Charles Bonney,
Flagstaff; L. C. Spencer, EI Paso; T. B.
Rogers, Temple City; George Haslin, Whit-
tier; W. B. Lucy, Santa Barbara; W. K.
Volner, EI Centro, and Jack Mehegan,
Modesto.
Ken Brown, Coinmatic Distributors,
made a plane trip east recently, calling
on the home office of U-Need-A Vendors,
Inc., Union City, N. J. While in the East,
Ken made goodwill visits to the com-
pany's eastern distributors and checked up
on a couple of lines. Word is that he
expects soon to have a "startling announce-
ment'.' to make. Stopping off at Chicago,
COIN
Ken picked up his new 4-place Stinson, MACHINE
which he flew back to the Coast.
REVIEW
Speaking of flying, Ken intends to use
the Stinson in his work. With auou t eight
years experience in flying, he knows what
he's about. Plans are to use the plane for
emergency operator calls to Arizona and
FOR
northern California.
APRIL
Preston Jarrell is full of superlatives
194'
these days. Reason is the new U-Need-A
"Monarch" cig vendor which is on display
at Coin rna tic Distributors. Says Preston:
"The reception given this machine has
been staggering. We expected a reasonable
reception for the machine, but the success
we are having with it surpasses all ex-
pectations."
Bill Leuenhagen tells us he has received
some very fine compJj'ments on the service
he is operating for phonograph operators
who have to go out of town. When oper-
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