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WILLIAMSON DISTRIBUTING CO.
Exclusive Evans Distributor for Northeastern California
1220 K. Street. Phone: 3-5565
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MACHINE
, REVIEW
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DECEMBER
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Sacramento. California
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Pro and- con on dime automatic phono-
graph play is terrific.. Several. operat~rs
claim it's essentially a mckel busmess, whIle
others want a dime or three for a quarter.
Greatest evil here is location percentages.
Many scattered small operators chisel in
with 50-50, which of course takes the profit
out of the operation.
Southern Automatic, Seeburg distributor,
has some personnel changes coming up. Al
Bland, present service. manager, will. be
traveling service engmeer for IndIana
starting first of the year.
Bryce Gray, now on the local salesfloor,
goes to traveling sales on See burg and
games for the territory south of Kokomo.
Incidentally, there's a new baby boy at
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Gray's house named Stephen Bryce.
Miami Distributing reports much actIvIty
on new Aireons. Sol Silver just took six
machines. Sol operates as the Silver Music
Co. at South Bend. Ray Randolph also
purchased several new ones.
A. W. "Jack" Turner, former service
station operator, started off with 25 new
Aireons, and is also operating a few pin
balls. This is J ack'g first venture into the
business, and he looks like a comer.
AMI distributor Paul F. Jock, P-J Dis-
tributing Co., Inc., is having a little delay
with plumbers, carpenters, et cetera at the
new store_ They will have a well rounded
stock for the operator including Automatic
Hostess, Personal Music, pin balls and
consoles. Johnny Gallagier is service man- '
ager, with Claire Sadler as Jock's secretary.
Paul is well known in the trade. He was
Wurlitzer distributor five years for Indiana,
Kentucky and part of Illinois.
This writer has just returned from an
emergency trip to southwestern Oklahoma
because of the cri ti cal illness of my mother.
C. Arthur Wallau
There have been several new develop-
ments at M.
Wolf Distributing Co., dis-
tributor af AMI phonographs, Cosmo and
National records. Chet Garton, who opened
the branch here, has been transferred to
the Northwest as manager with headquar-
ters at Seattle. Walter A. Huber, who held
the position of Northern California sales
manager has been appointed Chet's succes-
sor as m'anager of the Northern California
branch. Huber stated that AMI phono-
grap'hs are coming thr'ou/?h in fair volume
and deliveries are now bemg made to oper-
ators. The record department is growing by
leaps and bounds, and Dale Todd, Max
Wolfe, Lee Olsen, and R. Ra~ner have been
added to the staff. There IS also a new
secretary, Mrs. Jean Walker.
On the main floor a Ho'stess wired music
studio is being set up for demonstration
purposes, of which deliveries are being
made now.
M. S. Wolf spent a couple of days here
on business. "Griff" Griffin, shop foreman
of thi s branch, vacationed for a week in
Los Angeles.
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George R. Murdock, of George R. Mur-
dock and Associates, has just returned from
a visit to the Rock-Ola factory, and brought
back very heartening news. With controls
eliminated, production is expected to re~lly
hit its stride. Murdock was accompamed
on the trip by one of the Associates, Willard
Wayne, inventor of the Wayne Eq~lize:.
Murdock said that the Wayne Equalzzer IS
having "marvelous acceptance, nation wide.
It is something that operators have been
waiting for, for years. Very substantial
orders are being received."
Out-DC-town operators, recently calling at
Associates were: Arthur Frye, San Leandro ;
W. N. Cook, Martinez; Fred Hutchinson,
Salinas' H. Rutter, Salt Lake City; Charles
McKibben, Sonora; Chester Bettis, Fresno;
D. C. Fond, Rio Vista; Y. J. Gou la!d,
Brentwood, and P eter Murphy, Castro
Valley.
\ Leonard Baskfield has been made vice-
president and general manager of E. T.
Ex-Arcadester Altars
BIRMINGHAM, Mich.-Alan Rollins,
who owned an arcade and sold It, now
owns a wife-but he won't dispose of his
new holding for any consideration. Brother
Robert, Bronx operator, jaunted from the
big city to stand in at the ceremony.
s.
Mape Distributing Co., co-distributor for
Aireon phonographs. Mape Co. opened a
branch in Stockton, and also is bringing
out a new line of speakers assembled at
the Mape plant.
M. A. Pollard Co. is making deliveries of
the new Packard Hideaway phonographs,
boxes, entire line of speakers and parts. M.
A. Pollard Co. is exclusive Northern Cali-
fornia distributor for H. C. Evans Co.'s
products, and according to Pollard, "De·
liveries are being made now of the sensa-
tional money-makers: Bang Tails, Galloping
Dominoes and the new Evans Winter Book
cO{lsole." Pollard Co. is also exclusive dis-
tributor for the Handy Lift Trucks, Guar-
dian Kits and a large stock of parts. Chi-
cago Coin, Genco, Bally, and other leading
lines are on display.
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Operations of Grosso Amusement Co. ex-
tend all the way fram here to Mill Vall ey
and Tibur.an. Louis Grosso, owner of Grosso
Amusement Coo, said that business has
receded but is expected to pick up after
conditions become more normal. Besides
operating an extensive route of phonographs
and pin ball games, Grosso Amusement Co.
does a thriving business renting out auto-
matic phonographs for weddings and other
special occasions.
Louis sponsors, and has sponsored for
quite some time a junior baseball team;
class double A semi-pro team; a girls'
bowling team, and a men's bowlin~ team_
Louis is quite a ball fan, and spends
most of his Sundays watching ,b all games.
His younger son, William, 12 years old, is
playing on the junior team. His older son,
Ernest Ray Grosso, 19 years old, enlisted
in the Navy September 1945, and is current-
ly stationed in Guam.
Louis is also active in frat ernal organi-
zations. He is an officer in the Eagle's
Golden Gate Aerie 61, and is chairman of
the entertainment committee with the Old
Timers' Baseball Assn.
Mr. and Mrs. Grosso are very hospitable
and frequently entertain lavishly at their
beautiful new home_
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Edward Krafchow, former San Francisco
operator, has returned here after doing his
stint with the Armed Forces, and estab-
lished the San Francisco Operators Service.
Krafchow does contract service for a group
of operators. Ed is married and has two
young sons: Edmund Louis and David
Lawrence.
George R. Murdock became a grand-
father for the second time. The Richard
Murdocks are the proud parents of a baby
girl. She is their first child. Captain Richard
G. Murdock was called back by the Army
to active duty, and is stationed at present
at Fort Lewis, Washington.
Chuck Mittelman who has a candy route
in the city, commented on the strange psy-
chology of people. He said, "People go into
a store, and if they don't find just what
they want, they'll buy something else. But
not so with a vending ,machine. If they
don't find their popular brand, there just
is no sale."
Joseph R. Eppler, nationally known in
the tobacco industry, has joined Glenn-
Rowe Vending Machine Co., owned by J ack
Glenn. Joe was for many years Chicago
manager of Faber, Coe & Gregg, Inc., then
became factory representative of Waitt &
Bond, Inc. Joe is a devoted family man and
did not much relish all the traveling he had
to do as a factory representative.
There has been a long sustained friend-
ship between Jack Glenn and Joe Eppler.
It dates back to 1926 when Jack was West-
ern sales manager of American Cigar Co.,
and Joe worked under him as representa-
tive for three years. A few months ago,
Jack, foreseeing the tremendous potentialf