SAN FRANCISCO
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Clark, Kenneth W. Popkey, Ed. L. Horis-
key, Seattle manager, Bill Schetter and E.
F. McGlone from the Los Angeles branch.
V. H. Thompson and W. C. Cady, owners
of Coast Vendors, San Jose, were in San
Francisco last week, looking for more sup-
plies. Prior to the war Cady had a game
and music route in Sacramento; then he
served in the Navy where he met his present
partner, and sold him on the idea of be-
coming a coin machine operator. Coast
Vendors specialize in operating bulk vend-
ing equipment.
Paul Speer, prominent Santa Rosa opera-
tor, was in the city last week. Speer operates
a large game route through Sonoma County.
The firm is known as Speer Coin Machine
Service. Paul Speer maintains a large ser-
vice and parts department. His staff consists
of five: one expert mechanic who is station-
ed in the shop, and four service and repair
men.
Speer's hobby is speedboating. He has
just purchased a new Chris-Craft express
cruiser and hopes to get delivery in the
near future.
E. M. "Prince" Dutton, owner of Viking
Specialty Co., distributor of Northwestern
bulk vendors, was happy to report that the
equipment is arriving in greater quantity
than had been anticipated.
Chet Garton, San Francisco branch man:
ager of M. S. Wolf Distributing Co., says
COIN
that by next Monday there will be an
MACHINE AMI phonograph display in their showroom.
REVIEW
The factory shipped it to Los Angeles, and
from there it was dispatched to here. Chet
hopes to start deliveries, at the latest, first
part of August.
Walter A Huber, sales manager of Wolf
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Distributing Co., recently visited Lauro
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AUGUST
Mora, who is convalescing from an opera-
tion in the Victory hospital in Napa.
Spence Graves, Redding; Louie Crescen-
zi, from Ryde, were recent callers at M. S.
Wolf Distributing Co. From Oakland came:
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Davis, William Malick,
Joe Silla and George Bates from the firm
of Blalock and Bates.
Gisela Ney
Oa1'land
Under the provisions of the G.I. Bill of
Rights, the music operators of the East
Bay have organized a veterans' training
school for vocational training in electrically
operated equipment. Drawing their instruc-
tors from Oakland's Central Trade School,
the school ' was in session several months
prior to disbanding for summer vacation.
Bill Malick, chairman of the committee in
charge of the school, called a meeting re-
cently to formulate plans for reopening in
September. Operators in the music field are
backing this program wholeheartedly, real-
izing the value of having really skilled
mechanics.
Joe Silla, a veteran (in every sense of
the word) music operator of this area an-
nounced that the drum and bugle corps of
V.F.W. Post 1010, Emeryville, was awarded
the State Championship at the V.F.W.
Convention held in Long Beach in June. Joe
has been manager ot the Post's drum and
bugle corps for the past fifteen years and
has devoted considerable time to making it
the successful organization that it is. Fre-
quent demands for the services of the
corps at installations of new V.F.W. Posts
and the many centennial celebrations now
taking place in California keep Joe hop-
ping, and he is fortunate in having Joe Jr.
to carry on the Silla tradition in the music
business. Incidentally Joe Jr. also carries
on the Silla tradition at Post 1010.
George L. Delacruz, operator of automatic
phonographs, passed away suddenly of a
heart attack. All who knew him join in
expressing sympathy to his wife Ethel and
son, George Jr. E. F. Morgan, reported in
the hospital last month is now out and re-
cuperating nicely.
Tony Parina, of Messrs. Parina & Co.,
San Francisco, and distributors for Arthur
H. DuGrenier Inc., was in Oakland the
other day reporting on his trip back East
to the factory. Promising deliveries of new
Challenger in late July, Tony was welcomed
by operators who have been waiting for the
new cigarette machine ever since they saw
it on display at the N.A.T.D. show.
Hard luck dogged the heels of Morris
Jublonsky, cigarette serviceman, on his re-
cent vacation. He started a jaunt through
Northern California only to end up in bed
with the Au. Before the week was out he
was back in Oakland, partially recovered,
but attending his wife who was rushed to
the hospital for an emergency tonsillectomy.
Billy Barron has decided to move to the
other side of the Berkeley hills where sum-
mer weather is more summer-like. His new
home in Lafayette will make him a neigh-
bor of Andy Blalock whose place is in
Orinda. Andy boasts of an aviary in his
back yard, and his latest project is the
taming of a pair of finches.
K.B.S. Studios, dispensers of measured
music, announce that they have purchased
the facilities of Musi-Cal, formerly operated
by Curt Flanagan.
Fred Hutchinson, previously associated
with Coinmatic in Salinas, is reported to
have purchased a music route in Vallejo.
Paul W . Chamberlain
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