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COIN
MACHINE
IIEVIEW
12
ILLINOIS
"46
LOCK
804 South Ad'a Str •• t
FOil
JUNE
COMPANY
Chlc.&,o 7. IlIillol.
veloped. Stocks were sold out overnight. In-
genious devices for substituting for powel'
appeared. A gas sta tion owner jacked up
his car, and with the aid of a pulley made
th e power for selling gas. Another hitched
a belt to th e sprocket of his bicycle and
his small son pumped on the bicycle while
I?op sold his gas. Old fashion ed hand pumps
we used to see that sold gas w!!re dug up
from somewhere and appeared at the sta-
tions.
Those stores and factories that owned
oi I using genera tors did business as usual,
but th ey were very, very few_ Experts say
that th e strike set reconversion back at
least a year.
I visited th e Coin Machine factories. The
ma ch in es you may have been expecting this
month won't get th ere_ Delivery dates have
been pus hed back, back, back . . . it's aI,
most too much to ask of these intrepid men
... beset by lack of lumber, glass, copper,
steel . . . and slowly eating their hearts'
out to make things go _ .. now add THIS,
The great White Way of Chicago, the
Rialto of Theatre and Nite Club was as
black as wartime London. It wasn't a
brownout .. . it was a blackout. I entered
the Cathedral of all the Stores, Marshall
Field and Co. It was eerie. The showcases
were all dead .. . a few faint glows froni
small lij!;hts in distant corners. Shadows
Aitting about like figures in a tomb. Th e
darkness ad ded a sort of hushed si len ce.
NO MOVIES.
People had to learn to stay home and
talk. The art of conversation was revived .
The old fashioned habit of calling on peo-
nle and visiting was revived. A few of the
legitimate th eatres had their own l1:enerat-
ing plants so the SHOW went ON.
And so in darkness, let me bid you adieu
and hope that th e li ght will again shine on
th e coin hiz_
New Skeeball Game
spread it over the six days at 4 hours each.
Punishment for failure to comply with' the
rules meant shutting off of all power.
Inspectors . travelled about constantly
warning storekeepers to turn out lights, and
factories to shut off machinery. This natur-
ally resulted in the laying off from work of
a lot of people, and the pay envelop es in
this town Shrank to almost nothing. Banks
reported more cashin g in of War Bonds
than any previous period. Great lin es
formed around the workmen's compensa-
tion offices with people waiting to make ap-
plication for supplemen tal wages_
All shopping was condensed into a few
, hours, and the big department stores were
surro unded with milling throngs waiting
for the two o'clock opening time to draw
nigh. Gasoline stations were closed except
for the few hours, and if you were unlucky
enough to run out of gas at some other
hour, you were out of luck as well. It was
reminiscent of the war rationing days, but
in this instance it was worse_
Do Yoa Need
Arcade Equipment
RAY GUNS
or CONSOLES?
-SEE-
PAUL A. LAYMON
DISTRIIUTOR
As the strike dragged on, candles began
to appear in stores and store windows_ Old
fashioned gasoline lamps came out of
! ttics a nd barns. Small generators, large
generators, old ones and new ones were put
in use. A black market in generators de-
DETROIT-A new skeehall game, Bang-
a-Fitty, is being built by Isador Edelman
of Edelman Amusement Devi'ces. Many
operators h ave stopped in to see the new
game. Reports from preliminary testings
are good.