qua ted location equipment, Chris pulled
out a neat and heavily padded checkbook
and tried writing pretty figures for some
Victory Specials. But it seems that none
of the local jobbers could oblige because
the striking gamesters had shrunk the
demand so much that jobbers had lost
interest in ordering.
So Chris tore off a number of checks,
placed them in the mail, and ten bright
new Victory Specials soon arrived.
Thus was born Lucky Amusement. Birth·
pains were not noticed immediately; when
they did make theirappearanc~, loc~l
recalcitrants found them lodged III their
own abdomens.
After taking care of his own spots, Chris
made the rounds of the cream-covered
locations, passing out photographs, pamph-
lets and cards. When' the location owner
saw pictu~es of the new equipment 'a nd
compared with the tottering models in his
place, he started hollering for a trucking
company. Ere long Chris haq a nice lo-
cation.
To keep the record absolutely accurate,
Chris didn't offer higher commissions; in
one spot he lowered the location's per-
centage from 60 to 50 per cent.
Shortly thereafter, ten more bright and
shiny games arrived, to be followed by ten
more, and still another ten. The transfer
companies were doing a brisk business and
the sweetest spots in town were changing
operators with alacrity.
The strike-bound operators of Paragraph
COIN
One began to feel that oozy kind of per-
MACHIN. spirlltion that 'comes out warm and im-
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mediately turns to ice. They set up an
immediate clamor for Victory Specials,
and while the jobber was patiently trying
to get them, Chris made hay and the sun
shone all day and all night.
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Jerry Steffan returned from Fairbanks,
Alaska, with his lip hugging another now-
it's-here-now-it's-not facsimile of, a mus-
tache. Boasted Jerry: "Contrary to any
rumor, I went up there to vacation with
my sister. To prove that I'm a strictly on-
the-wagon guy, I didn't touch a drop of
hard stuff. And brother, that wasn't easy.
Know how many taverns and bars there
are in Fairbanks and vicinity? 43!"
That wasn't an F.B.I. man skulking
around those p1\cking cases looking for a
clue; it was Anacortes' Charlie Farrell
trying to find some purchasable music
models.
When Bert Beutler said "I do" for AMI,
the Moore headquarters underwent a
change-and quickly. George G. (Gardy)
Goss, formeily Moore major-donao at Salt
Lake City and assistant manager in San
Francisco, moved in to the top spot, with
Dick Robinson right behind him. Several
years ago Dick was the vital cog that
kept the Moore machine oiled. Then came
the war and with it a sudden illness that
staggered him against the ropes for a year.
Recovering, he personnel-managed at the
local shipyards and then hopped to Royal
Amusement. Do all birds come home to
roost? Here's one that came home to crow
-about the excellence of the new Seeburg.
Seeburg or no-welcome back, Richard.
He found that sales work ' made his blood
run just a trifle faster and that servicing
was just another job. That's why Lyle
Temiey, who started his Seattle coin career
with Puget Sound Novelty, resigned his
mechanicship at Wayne (Cle Elum) Odom's
to return to P.S.N. for whom he'll travel
the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
Here's what's clickin'; cousin: Stage-Door
Canteen and Exhibit's Big Hit. The latter
is the first 5-ball game with a four multiple,
and judging from its reception, it won't be
the last, either.
Doug Brandt, 'a veteran row-ster, thought
he'd like to be a fireman; so he cut coin
ties and became a redco'at. Doug dreamed
of three-alarm calls. He could see himself
sliding down the pole, donning hat and
swinging a hatchet; he envisioned hun-
dreds of onlookers, with admiration and
hero-worship in their eyes as he assaulted
a furious blaze. He saw himself choking,
begrimed, but still smiling, carrying help-
less victims to safety and being encored
by the cheering mob. But Doug found that
one of the pre-requisites of the job was
knowing how to play checkers, chess and
handball-and Doug disliked all three. Fo'r
one year he sat around and waited. His
nerves were latched on their last string-
not from battling blazes but from waiting
for them to start. P.S.-Doug is the new
slot-repair expert at Seattle Coin Machine
Co.
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The Row lost one of its oldtiiners when
Joe Schoen, a king of early slot days,
passed away in Vancouver, B.C. He was 62.
Jim Moore wanted to visit relatives in
Jacksonville, Fla., so he ,asked Boss George
Schnabel how about it. "Install those 100
Coinmasters for Intermountain Distributors
in Salt Lake City and then you can go,"
George told him. Houdini couldn't have
sleight-of-handed any faster than Jim in-
stalled. On March 28 he boarded a plane
for the Southland.
Those grunts and groans did not take
place at a wrestling match; that was Coin
Row painfully recovering from small· pox
vaccinations which caused more fuss than
a carload of new phonographs.
Things are definitely on the up-look for
Jack Roberts. Any day now he will receive
delivery of a new push-button-and·open-
the·window Lincoln. And that's not all. He
was seen on the Row triumphantly brand·
ishing five pounds of butter. Let me repeat
that for all you folks whose eye-balls
haven't returned to their sockets yet: five
pounds of butter-you know, the stuff that
spreads with a knife.
Aireon and expansion forced Solly Solo-
mon to double Western Distributors' exist-
ing floorage. "Upstairs you will find our
production and refurbishing departments,"
said Solly, while his secretary dove for a
dictionary and your one·syllabled corres·
pondent asked: "How do you spell 'refur-
bishing?' "
The Chamber of Commerce will run me
out of town for this, but inasmuch as I'm
planning to leave anyway, why not be
fearless about it? Well, Mrs. Harold Slater,
wife of Mechanic Harold at Puget Sound
Novelty, was in poor health, caused by the
excessive dampness of this part of the
country, 50 tae doctor said: "Go South,
young lady, go South." Harold is now
working for his Uncle Tom in San Mateo,
California, servicing routes. The Missus will
follow in a few weeks.
While everybody else was going around
grubbing for new games, buying available
models and worrying about prices and de-
liveries, Jack Howlett's electronic mind
was occupied with-The Boy Scout Circus!
Master Jack was in charge of the public
address system.
Heberling's faithful lIa Frazier, better
known as "Brownie," is recuperating nicely
from a back operation.
More round trips were made this month
than ever before. First it was Dick Robin-
son (Moore to shipyards to Royal Amuse·
ment to Moore); then it was Lyle Tenney
(Puget Sound Novelty to Wayne Odom
to Puget Sound Novelty). Once again:
Ralph Yost, Decca to Capitol to Decca.
Flash from the Jacobs Kennel: a new
addition to this dog· loving, prize-collecting
coinopping family is "Trinket," a ten·
month female poodle whose show-winning
monicker is ' "Miss Perfection of Rosbar,"
and who recently picked off awards at
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