FEBRUARY 1947
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STAGE SET rOB eMI "MAGNlrIGANZA"
$15 Annual License for
Cambridge C'oin Games
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-At a recent meet-
ing of the City Council an ordinance was
passed providing for a license of $15 per
year for the maintenance, possession and
operation of an automatic amusement de-
vice. These licenses are issued annually,
expiring December 31 of each year: The
ordinance mentions pin ball machines,
marble games, diggers, grab machines,
baseball or foo tball, machine games, target
machines and horse racing machines.
One section of the ordinance reads:
"The Chief of Police shall issue rules and
regulations for the use of such automatic
amusement devices by the holders and he
may require, from time to time, the furni sh-
ing of reports concerning such devices and
their use and operation."
Another section is as follows:
"No person holding a license for the use
of any such automatic amusement device
shall use or permit the same to be used for
the purpose of gambling in any manner
whatsoever, either directly or indirectly.
Any violation of this provision shall be
cause for the revocation of such license for
such device and for ' ail other devices owned
or controlled by the person violating thi s
provision."
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The matter had been under discussion at
several meetings of the Council; at one time
it was recommended that a $200 annual tax
be levied on each pin ball machine in the
city. Subsequently $50 was suggested and
later $25; finally the amount was brought
down to $15. The new tax became law on
January 2.
Call
DR. 3209
For Automatic Equipment.
Peirts and Supplies
PAUL A. LAYMON
DISTRIBUTOR
Air Of Expectancy Pervades Coinland Capital
In Anticipation of Greatest Show In-History
CHICAGO-All roads lead to the Windy City ... from every section of
the country, in private cars, planes and trains, coinmen are enroute to the first
National Coin Machine Show since Pearl Harbor. Special transportation
conveyances have been chartered for groups in a number of areas .
In the Biblical stor y of Joseph, it was seven years of famine which followed
seven years of p lenty. In coin machine history, it was five years of scarcity
followed by the first of many years of plenty.
The stage is set and the atmosphere charged with expectancy as opening
day draws close. ~isplay space for the 128 exhibitors was sold six weeks
before curtain time. Every room in the Sherman was nailed by reservation
long ago. 12,000 coinmen will jam-pack the hotel to see, hear and touch the
splendors of this revivified coin age.
Mills Sales' President
Predicts Big Year
OAKLAND-Contrary to recession ' re-
ports, the _ business outlook for thls year
leaves no cause for pessimism, according to
Gordon D. Mins, president of Mills Sales
Co., Ltd., and vice-president in charge of
sales of Mills Industries, who discussed
trade trends with A. H. Bouterious and
Warren H. Taylor during a recent five-day
visit.
Taylor, general sales manager of the
local branch, confirmed Mills' optimistic
viewpoint after a trip 'to Reno, Las Vegas,
Portland, and Los Angeles. Reno operators,
Taylor reported, were enthusiastic about
the firm's new Dolbar Bell.
January 21 and- 22 were School Days for
Mills Sales' service personnel, with the
new Photo-Matic as the object of study.
Instructor was a factory representative from
International Mutoscope Corp.
Bowling Alley Locations
BOSTON-Bowling alleys are a new and
tremendous force as a source of revenue to
coin machine operators in New England.
Associated Amusements showed two bowl-
ing alley proprietors the possibilities by an
actual test demonstration, and as a result,
some 400 machines have been placed in
bowling alleys -during the past four months.
Machines which pay well are Voice-O-
Graph, Atomic Bomber, Goalee, Under Sea
Raider, and various pin games and ray
machines.
Blueprints of revolutionary items, placed
in the "pending" file when war disrupted
peace-time pursuits, have been carried from
the darkness into the light and transformed
into "out-of-this-world" devices. Years of
war-time research and engineering skill
have brought forth improvements which
had previously been confined to the "dream"
stage. New designs, new principles of play,
new simplified mechanisms, new stream-
lined beauty- all these have been incorpo-
rated into equipment which will stimulate
customer play and spiral Coindom to the
very pinnacles of prosperity.
The lavish exhibit will not be confined
solely to amtfsement devices. Twenty-two
ve~ding firms have been assigned space,
whIch seems to prove that · operators are
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