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NOVEMlll
1946
who purchased a new Victory Derby from
Jones Distributing Co. recently, was a
visitor in the office last week.
Tony Piccoli, of Durango, an old-time
operator, has sold his route to Jean Royce.
Frank Richie, formerly in the Salt Lake
City office, is now moving to the expanding
office of Jones Distributing Co. in Denver.
Walter J . Burkett, of Denver, along with
several companions, is going on a big deer
hunt the opening of the season. They will
be camped out in the mountains for a week
or 10 days.
W_ H. Erskine call ed on the Midwestern
Music Co. in Wheatl and, last month.
Out-of-town visitors at the Jones office
were: Mrs. Dorothy Scullen, of Casper,
who was made happy with some new See-
burgs; Everett Fees of Colorado Springs ;
Jake Greiner of Albuquerque; Bryan Ed-
wards of Douglas; Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Ray
of Greeley, of the Ray Music Co. ; Mr.
Johnson of Rawlins, Wyo., who owns the
Home Appliance Co.; W. E. Bosche,
Southwest Vending Co.; George Fiorina,
operating the Yucca Inn at Santa Fe ; and
Carl Gottlieb and wife, of the Gottlieb
Music Co., Alamosa.
Cecil Finney of Lamar was expected in
Jones's office in the near future after new
equipment.
Lu Shulman of Modern Distributing re-
cently made an emergency trip to Chicago
in an effort to obtain some additional ma-
chines. He succeeded to the extent that he
brought back 10 Rock-Olas over regular
quota, returning the same day. The addi-
tional machines will be of great help to the
operators in this territory, who just can' t
get enough new Rock-Olas.
The new Rock-Ola wall boxes are cer-
tainly meeting with appreciation and ex-
pressions of pleasure from the boys who
have purchased them.
George Burgon, Modem's ace trouble
shooter, made a trip recently to Wyoming,
calling on all the Rock-Ola operators, a nd
from there went on to New York for a two
or three week's vacation.
Modem's city salesman, Lewis Sher-
bundy, went on his two week vacation,
which he spent in Wyoming and, of course,
contacted a few operators during his stay.
De Von Anderson has recently been
added to the staff of Modern Dist. Co. as
collector for the Denver district.
Recent visitors in Denver who called
upon Modern were: Harold Rounds from
Lovell, C. H. Sullivan, Rock-Ola operator
from Julesburg; R. J. Reynolds of the
P ueblo Music Co.; Mrs. Dan Scullen, whose
husband is "Dan, the Music Man," in
Casper, described as a "very charming
lady." ; Bryan Edwards of the Western
Music Co., Douglas.
Due to the expansion in personnel of the
Wolf Sales Co., several new private offices
are being built for their accommodation.
It has been found necessary for them to
double the present office space. While not
fu ll y completed, the work is far enough
along to evidence how mu ch they are going
to add to the convenience and attractive-
ness of th e office quarters in the building.
They are commodious and • will be well
equipped wi th modern furnishings.
Al C. Roberts reports that on his recent
fishin g trip to Cross Lake, he hooked what
was estimat.e d to be a 25 to 30 pound
north ern pike, but which he finally lost
after having him on the line for an hour
and forty-five minutes. It was a despera te
struggl e, but the fish won out.
D. B. Walker, branch manager of Wolf
Sales al El Paso, had his car stolen abou t
a month ago and to da te no trace of it has
been found.
Charles Salardino of the Music Sales
Co. at Florence and Pueblo, is now re-
cuperating at ·hom e from a major operation
which was performed on him at Mayo
Brothers. •
M. J . Savio, business manage r of Wolf
Sales Co. became the father of a bouncing
baby girl recently- the first baby in his
family.
Charles Kaplan of the P and M reports
that he has ordered new electric cigarette
machines. This, he says, is a new venture,
but he is always willing to try out new
things, and is hoping that these will be
preferable to the old type machines.
Kaplan , who has been in th e busin ess in
Denver two years, )rnndles cigarette and
candy machines, and has 500 penny-out
machines. He runs two tru cks in his busi-
ness and has orders in for two more, but
uncertain when he will gel delivery.
• A t the present t ime, Kaplan says, there
is considerable confusion among the six
cigarette machine men in Denver about
switching the price to 17 cents. Four of
them have agreed on the pri ce raise, but
two are still opposed. He is hopi ng for an
amicable agreement in the near fu ture.
Gibson Bradshaw of th e Denver D is-
tributing Co., has been ve ry ill with double
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NEW
Jennings SUPER DELUXE
LITE-UP CHIEFS
Sc:
- 10c:
25c:
$324
$334
$344
COLUMBIA, J . P. $145.00
SILVER KING
NUT VENDOR .......... $13 .9$
Roll-Down Game
TALLY ROLL .......... $469.50
'A~commodation Center'
in Coin Machine Row
Specializing
In Editing Attractive Letters
Whe n circula rizing , consult " Moll ie"
and she will compile you r letYer
with " pe rsonal " care.
Publi c Ste nog raph y; Nota ri zi ng ,
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Phonograph-Arcade.,....Pinball.
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lobar pneumonia- has been in the hospital
but is now recovering and able to be back
on the job- is getting in touch with his
business again. He reports that the ou t-
standing difficulty now is that machines are
not coming in very good, says he could sell
10 times as many machines if he could only
get them. A number of out-of-town people
have visi ted h is office, including Pat John-
son of Rawlins.
Zane H. Gordon who operated candy and
nut machines sin ce January 1st recently
sold his busin ess.
Frances Con rey
Federal Tax Collections
Up On~ Million
(S pecial to Th e R e-view)
WASHINGTON- Tax collections on the
use of coin machines are still showing a
mon thly decline, according to latest fig-
ures from the Burea u of Internal Revenue.
Officials point out, howeve r, that returns
for the current fiscal year are running well
ahead of last yea r. They look for further
in creases when production of new machines
picks up.
Approximately $8,000,000 was collected
for t he first month of the 1947 fiscal year,
or about $1,000,000 more than for July of
1945. Returns d ipped to 5.7 mill ion dollars
in August, but this figure is still almost
$2,000,000 better than was collected in Au-
gust of last year.
Tax officials discoun t mon thly fl uctua-
tions in coin machine returns, since the
levy on each machin e is collected only
once a year and is apt to come in at any
time.
Taxes collected for the year ending
July 1, 1946, were $2,000,000 less than the
amount for the preceding year, reflecting
the drop in the number of machines op-
erated as old one wore out with new ones
unavailable. Returns for the 1946 fiscal
year were $17,091,795 as compared with
$19,100,311 for year end ing July 1, 1945.
Omaha Adds Distributor
OMAHA-Joe Rothkop is the latest addi-
tion to Coin Row. He purchased the
building at 1115 Douglas and has set up
jobbing facilities.
GAMES
Genco's
WHIZZ
$189 so
VEST POCKETS ...... $74. 50
Exh . FAST BALL .... $330 .00
Groetc:hen Deluxe
CLUB COLUMBIA $209.50
SPELLBOUND ...... $325.00
W r ite for Prices!
NE\V
CHALLENGER ........ $65 .00
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Jennings BRONZE OR
STANDARD CHIEFS
25c;
Sc:
10c:
$299
$309
$319
Ma~vel FRISCO
Bally SURF QUEENS
VICTORY SPECIAL
Chi Coin GOALEE
Exch . BIG HIT
Genco TOTAL ROLL
SPEED IRON
SOLDERING GUN .. $14 .95
Ace COIN
COUNTER ............ $139.50
BOX STANDS ......... ,$27. 50
SUPERLINER ........ $322.00
Gott. GRIP SCALE $39.50
Bally CRAWBELL $477. 50
UNIVERSAL PHONO
AMPLIFIER, $39. 50
BIG LEAGUE .......... $299 .50
May I Serve Ypu?
MOLLIE G. SIMON
2301 W. Pico
Los Angeles 6, ~alif.
Phone: Fitzroy 3887 •
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