Visitors at Laymons th e past month in-
cluded Al Cicero, Santa Monica; Tom
Boddy, Lomita; Carl Fisher, Inglewood ;
William McCullough, Visalia; Art Weiss,
Arcadia; W. D. Adkins, Oceanside; W. H.
Shorey, F. W. Ketchersid, San Bernardino ;
E. L Meadows, Barstow; F . L Griffin,
Pomona; John Ketchersid, Long Beach ;
Ollie Trevillian, Santa Barbara; Glen Mc-
Carter, Beaumont; Tom Osborne, Dallas,
Tex., arid William Sparrow, San ta Barbara.
Ano ther old-tim er seldom seen on local
coinrows was Fred McClellan, Sacramento.
Fred passed th e word around he would
shortly be in production on a new game.
Music operators from far and near con-
tinue to flock to Bill Leuenhagen's music
bar in quest of independent records. Bill's
collection is uniqu e in this territory and
is savi ng operators many miles of travel
in th eir record purchases. "Marie Solie,
head of the record departmen t," says Bill,
"has had years of experience in th e record
business and is well qualified to recom-
mend what numbers are goi ng strong and
what numbers have good possibilities."
Bill points ou t that most of the hits in
recent years have appeared first on in-
dependent labels and that operators who
were fortunate enouj!;h to stock up on those
numbers when th ey first got rolling, reaped
the biggest profits. "We watch each new
independen t number pretty e1osely, and if
one looks like a hit, we make- sure every
operator hears about it and can get it
from us without delay."
Gilles pi e Games is in production with
Penny Lag, a counter type, legal skill
game.
Strikes 'N' Spares, Rock-Ola phono-
graphs, and Keeney games continue to
bring a lot of operators to the Badger
Sales showrooms. Recent out-of-towners
who dropped in include Earl Beatty,
Temple City; Milton Noriega, Colton ;
Charles Lyon, Long Beach; Charles DeWitt,
Redlands; Howard Hunt, Redlands; Herb
Small, Southgate; A. L Miller, Blythe;
William Brong, EI Monte.
A recent visitor to the offices of THE
REVIEW was Robert M. Stcel, well-kriown
to th e Industry before the war through
his activity in food vending machines
placed in apartment houses. Steel has
some very interesting plans for a new
type vending machine and expects to
announce details in the near fu ture.
Inside reason why th e Board of Super-
visors increased license fees of game opera-
tors from $12 to $24 in the unincorporated
territory of Los Angeles County is that
only 30 per cent of operators obtained
licenses on their equipment. The fee was
doubled at a closed session between the
county manager and the Board to provide
th e enforcement division with additional
policing revenue.
Coast Enterprises have added the Ameri-
can fortune scale to their line and will
distribute this item in California, Oregon,
and Washington.
AMCO Sales Co., large operators of
Cash-Tray almond vendors, has branched
out as a distributor by annexing the
Standard Specialty line of cast-iron stands
for Southern California.
Commercial Radio Corp. is being flooded
with inquiries on its sensational new com-
bination coin-operated radio, two-way inter-
communica tion system, th e only set of
its kind on th e market.
The reason Thorna Mathews, ':secretary
to Jay Bullock at SCAMOA, was hi-
spottin g Los Angeles night life with such
thoroughness has at last come to light.
Her parents are visitinj!; her from New
Jersey the latter part of September, and
Thorna wanted to know all about the
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(1, 2, 3 or 5 ball play) a nd Ballyhoo, United's Mexico, Gottlieb's
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Bar sales and penny items are also
off, due in part, it is said, to factory
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MACHINE
machines usually follow the candy trend,
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operators say.
Drink automatics could have done better,
but the supply of syrups has not yet
caught up with th e demand; one big outfit,
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production, and drinks sales probably will
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soon show a healthy increase.
The brightest star on the horizon is the
cigare tte business, with the public interest
in automatic vending showing a steady
upswing. The arrival of electric vendors
is welcomed by operators and meeting
satisfactory reception by smokers.
Music operators are grea tly concerned
over a proposed city ordinance · to tax
each box $40 per year. Many operators
concede some tax is inevitable, since the
city fathers are hard put to find revenue
to meet the risin g cost of government. But
they' contend the $40 amount is confisca-
tory.
The law proposes a $100 a year levy
on all distributors also, and all sorts of
"policing" legislation, which operators de-
cry as discriminatory against a legitimate
business.
At Youngstown, it is said a similar
ordinance was shaved down to five dollars
by appeal to ' the courts, and on this the
local operators base their hope to defeat
the local proposal's unreasonable features.
Will Magly is glowing over the addition
of a mobile radio phone to his service
truck. He also reports receipt of a number '
of National electric cigarette vendors, and
finds them hi ghly satisfactory.
As we go to press, Charlie Kanter, secre-
tary-treasurer of the Automatic Phono-
graph Owners' Assn. is in Jewish Hospital,
victim of a sudden ' heart ailment.
APOA is happy to welcome Ed Wen-
For the past month business has been
ninger back on its roster once more after
only fair for the music boxes. Operators
an extended absence.
ascribe this to the usual summer lull, . " . Sam Smiley has installed an air con-
although the weather has not been hot
ditioning system in his new warehouse,
up to now.
which he claims is an innovation in the
Ar~adesters make the same statement,
wholesale candy business, and which may. .
as do the amusement games folk, with
give some coin machine men a happy idea.
these devices doing a shade better than
Sam distributes for Brach, and Lovell and
the tune dispensers.
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entertainment highlights so she could steer
her folks to the right spots. Incidentally,
as of Sept. 1, Thorna has a "notary public"
tagged to her title.
Bill Wolf arrived at the home office in
Los Angeles, took one long deep lungful
of Sou thern California sun-air, and then
embarked for a two-week Coast jaunt which
will carry him as far north as Seattle.
There are still some Launderette store
locations available on the Pacific Coast,
reports C. H. Fuller, vice-president of Pa-
cific Telecoin Corp., but they are going
fa st, as attested by the steady stream of
inquiries which have been received at
both San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.
Fuller states that the coast branches of
Telecoin are awaitin g arrival of th e new
dryer and extractor; the latter cuts down
on drying time.
Jack Simon of Sicking Distributing is
saying his goodbyes before leaving for the
Midwest in early September. Jack will
visit both Cincinnati and Indianapolis
offi ces of Sicking, as well as the fa ctories
in Chicago.
Both black and brown models of the
Douglass Automatic S hoe Shiner were on
display at the Industrial Exposition held
at Pan Pacific Auditorium during the latter
part of August.
Vacations highlighted the month at Paul
A. Laymon, Inc. Edward Wilkes, sales-
manager, took his family and hied off to
Y05emite. N. J. Cresswell, shop foreman,
returned from a vacation spent in Yellow-
ston e and Zion National Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Laymon spent the
August 3rd weekend in San Francisco at-
tending th e opening of the refurbished
quarters of the J ack R. Moore office. Johnny
Ru ggiero played host to the coin folks.
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