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C. A. ROBINSON
C. A. Robinson & Co.
NICK CARTER
Nickabob Co.
afraid outside spots will be vandalized and
broken into so much they will cease to be of
value to operator or proprietor."
Nominations for the "I'd Like to Murder
the Guy" Club includ e the man who is called
upon to speak at a meeting and says,
"Everything I had intended to say has al·
ready been covered, but-" and th en
rambles on for 20 minutes, confirming hi s
initial statement ... "Just lookin g around,"
was the way Sales board Wholesaler C. F.
. Durheim of Triple D. Enterprises, Great
Bend, Kan., summed up his show sojourn
. . . Two we eks of Palm Springs' sunshine
verved Max Mondschein of Seattle's Acm e
Amusement for th e big event.
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Lithesome, well-dressed feminine torsos
were draped all over the place but th e per-
sonality kid who topped all other personal-
ity kids was Decca Boother Dayl Rodney, a
winsome chick of 18 who was crowned "Miss
Plastic of 1947," winning the award out of
it group of 40 entrants. Having interviewed
many an eye-ca tcher in his day, your on-th e-
spo t reporter (and what a wonderful spot it
is, too) was agreeably surprised to find at
least one pretty girl who didn't carry a
. sugarload of conceit. Miss Rodney, a Joe
Keith model at present, is not allowing a
pretty face and figure to carry h er torch
through life. She's' studying dramati cs and
radio; doesn't smoke, drinks no co ffee, and
imbibes only to be socia ble. Hollywood,?
"Let 'em (;om e to me if they want me," she
says.
George Sch nabel, major-domo at Puget
Sound Novelty, Seattle, was glad to get oul
of the Pacific Northwest where a 40-mile
gale and snowstorm raged, but when h e ar-
rived in Chi he wasn' t so glad. Seems like
th e storm h ad raced on ahead and was wait-
ing to greet him here . .. Len Ivey, a vet-
eran of the1busin ess si nce 1932 (operated in
Los Angeles, Oakllh-ld, San Francisco and
Sea ttle), is now associated with Schnabel.
Len killed two shows with one birdie, taking-
in the National Boat Meet during the sa me
week as th e Coin Confab. Last October he
won the Class F Hydroplane national out-
board championship in Boulder Dam and is
now officially kin gpin in his class until next
year at the very same ti me wh en he will de-
fend hi s titl e.
Operators and jobbers from Southern Cal-
ifornia, who were too busy to warm their
vo ices over the conversa tional coals during
th'e work week, received ample opportunity
during the train trip to Coin land's Capi tal.
More than a dozen of them were on the City
of Los Angeles. Severa~ days later the lads
got together .in the Leuenhagen-Bullock su ite
for a chinfest. There must have been a magi-
cian in th e house because when the boys
entered the room at 9 there were two fifth s
of whi skey on th e dresser. At 9 :30 the whis-
key had been transformed into empty bot-
tles. The fella> s opined that a 70-30 com-
mission spirt I)
'ekel play would work out
~pr than lO-cerlt play. A
better for th ~ .
growing tet ~ert ('y IJtt th e part of jobbers to-
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JACK M. BROWN
National Service Sales Corp.
ward diversification of lines was also noted.
Those on hand included Bill Simmons, Jack
Dolan, Nels Nelson, Nick Carter, Frank
Showalter, Frank Navarro, Henry Bringas,
Joe Simski; Budge Wright, Portland, Ore.;
and J. D. Cox, San Francisco.
LonCJ Time No See;
Now See and Hear
CHICAGO- Tucked away in an unosten·
tatious suite on the 31st floor of the Con-
tin en tal Hotel was Mills' long.heralded,
long-awaited phonograph. The lightest
mu sic machine on the market, weighing 325
pounds, its cabinet is all· aluminum ; capaci-
ty is 40 tunes (two-side feature); an "X"
marks a unique coin slot designed for
easier customer insertion and for ac-
cep tan ce of bent coins without jimmying
th e chute.
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T here are two slots: one to handle nickels
for s in gle selections; th e other for quarters
(six hit tun es of the week-no selection).
CHARLES PASCOE
Coin·O·Matic Cashier Co.
Train Depots
Will Go Coiny
CHICAGO- According to "exhihitors at
the Coin Machine Industries, Inc. conven-
tion, the properly equipped railroad station
should fairly jangle with nickel-in-the-slot
gimmicks," the Associated Press teletyped
to its hundreds of newspapers.
"A traveler, among oth er things," says
the AP dispatch, "should be able to get his
shaving needs,. a press for his necktie, a
shine for his shoes, his railroad ticket, a
toothbrush, a book, a horoscope, two flavors
of ice cream, pop corn and an electrically
heated hot dog {no mustard}-all from
coin machines."
POp Corn EatinCJ Contest
CHICAGO- Five wide-eyed youngsters,
aged 10 to 12, sat around ~table containing
more pop corn than th ey'had ever seen in
their lives. Place: Viking Tool & Machine
booth at th e show. Time: 4:30 p. m.,
Permo Has Novel Display
February 3. Purpose : To see which lad
eould devour the most pop corn in five
CHICAGO- Instead of a long recitation
mi nutes.
on the merits of Permo Point needles, th e
When the clocker signalled "stop," two
firm had a unique display de$igned to prove
the excellence of its product. Four turn-
and a half bags of corn -had been gulleted.
tables were set up in a glass enclosure. On _ The winner received $20, with the remain-
turntable "A" was a Permo needle i "B"
ing four pocketing ten dollars each.
contained a sapphire one ; "Ct' and "D"
Bell-O-Matic Buys Plant Site
were competitors' products. The needles
CHICA.GO-In a transaction involving
grooved discs for 11 consecutive hours or
more than $175,000, Bell-O-Matic Corp.
a total of 220 plays. ResUlts of the test,
purchased the block bounded by Kinzie
conducted each day. of the show, demon -
and Lake Sts. and Kilbourn and Kenton
strated which needlt! was less wearing on
Aves. and plans to erect a new plant to
th e record.
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