DON~T BUY ANY ELECTRIC SCOREBOARD
UNTIL YOU INYESTIGATE THE
1tJeJ te,."
TESTED AND PROVED ON LOCATION
FOR 9 MONTHS
• Wall type.
• Simple to operate.
• . Can be used with all ~huffle
board makes and models.
• All parts are new.
• Fool-proof throughout.
• Attractive hardwood cabinet.
• Few moving pcirts.
• Ten cent coin chute.
There are still a few distributorships available for both the Western
Scoreboard and the outstanding Western Black Top Shuffleboard.
Inquire today!
WESTERN SHUFFLEBOARD CO.
OPERATOR'S PRICE
2307 W. Pi co Blvd.
Los Angeles 6, Calif.
Phone DUnkirk 8·1937
Branch Office: 944 7th Ave., San Diego, Calif. - Phone F. 9-8414
I.os Jlngeles
You've heard of Nature Boy; now give
a listen to Laughing Boy. He's Music Op-
erator Roy" B. Jones, who has never been
caught with a sad puss since he left the
insurance business and joined the music
rllnks. The other day he and his partner,
Ray Powers (no relation to Ray R., the
popular manufacturers' representative) had
enough money between them to buy om:
pair of shoes, so they flipped a coin and
Laughing Boy won. He was seen strutting
his stuff at the Nickabob Co., wearing
purple shoes with multi-colored shoe laces.
H. B. Hoffman, one-ball operator of Spo-
kane, Wash., couldn't resist Coin Row
while on his way to Arizona, thence to the
Mardi-Gras, and spent part of his two
month vacation chinning with the . local
coin clientele.
Mary Sims, vivacious manager of West-
ern Shuffleboard's Los Angeles office, did a
lot of recovering last month. First she
recovered from a bad ankle sprain, then
from a bad cold, but she's still not re-
covered from the deluge of orders for
Western's electric scoreboard which con-
tinues unabated.
Little known fact about a well known
coin figure: Ralph Clapp, head of R. B.
Clapp Co., the electrical timing specialists,
is a member of the San Gabriel Chapter
of the Barber Shop Quartet Singers and
appeared over KXLA for three years with
his three brothers: Albert, Randall, and
Arch. Back in 1898, when tht Clapp boys
first went vocal, Ralph's dad · had a com-
bination grocery store and meat market.
Fifty years later the Clapp quartet reo
turned to the same site-now the city hall
-and completed half a century of harmony.
Incidentally, there are 500 chapters of the
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F.O .B.
Los Angeles
•
Barber Shop Quartet in the United States,
frequent the Laymon establishment and
comprised of 25,000 members.
this month found W. E. Erwin in from
Quickies-Dan Donohue, Seeburg's west.
Needles; along with Albert Cicero, Santa
ern representative, paused in Los Angeles
Maria; William Bradley, Covina; William
Shorey, Stuart Metz an~ Irving Gayer, San
long enough to report that Seeburg's· Select.
O-Matic 100 is boosting music grosses to
Bernardino; Jack Johnson, Johnny Ketch·
almost unbelievable heights-CMACs Bob
ersid and Charles Cahoone, Long Beach;
Morse, back in town after nine months in
Pop Burris, Montebello; Ivan Wilcox, Vi-
salia; F. L. Griffin, Pomona; Jack Neal,
Arizona and New Mexico . . . Operator
John Hawley reports increased business in
Riverside; Perry Irwin, Ventura; Clyde
cigarettes and shuffleboard the first week
Truss, Oceanside; William Spa,row, Santa
of February, with music gross remaining
Barbara; Jack Mallett, Claremont; Al An-
unchanged .. . Nels Nelson, general man-
derson, Shafter; and E. E. Peterson, San
ager of Ray Powers' Los Angeles office,
Diego.
Pete Schupp, Inglewood, is fincling vita·
holding down the Pico fort while Ray com-
pleted arrangements for the opening of the
mins . a valuable adjunct to operating.
Sacramento office . . . Weymouth Service
"Helps one get more locations with the
Co. has appointed L. Silver of San Fran.
added pep they give," he claims.
Bill Bye, former Wurlitzer factory repre-
cisco as sub-distributor for .the Vendall
candy vendor . . . Merc.Cal Vendors, dis-
sentative in the West before the war, now
has a hQttling plant and a lumber yard in
tributors of the Mercury Athletic Scale,
have been appointed California franchise
Los Angeles.
operators for the Hayes-Sloan Bowling Ball
Harry Williams, Chicago, planed in on
Cleaner, which washes, cleans lind drys
February 15th for a visit with local coin·
balls in 50 seconds for a dime.
men and flew out on the 18th to visit Ari·
Paul A. Laymon is featuring some new
zona operators enroute back to Chicago.
pucks for shuffleboards which he contends
"You just can't beat the Recordio for
steady, consistent returns," claims Paul
are the last word. Known as Ros-Con, they
are standard weights of the hardest metal
Laymon. He displays some figures on
and give perfect satisfaction despite heavy
averagjs infPX, YMCA, de~~t and ~a~~ing
usage.
rLoom ocha IOns 0 proveh IS. cofn enCIOI~'
F re d . an. d 011"
aymon as an ex on t e umt or a I-
.Ie T reVI 'Ir Ian h ave d' I~POS~ d
fornia.
of theIr hIstorIcal El Paseo propertIes III
Santa Barbara for a reported .$450,000. _
Avery Brundage of Chicago was the pur.'
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The Industry was saddened to learn of
LOS ANGELES - Herbert Klein, sales
the death of the wife of G. B. Sam the first manager of International Mutoscope Corp.,
of the month. Burial was on February 5th. ' Long Island City, visited the West Coast
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ross, Long Beach,
territory recently in the in terests of his
were recent visitors in the city. Ross used
firm. Klein had previously attended the
to operate but is currently selling shuffle-
1949 Coin Machine Show in Chicago and
boards and traveling the western states.
reported an excellent reception of the firm's
The Who's Who of Coindom continue to
new machines.
M utoscope S a 1 es M gr.
Visits Western Area
COIN MACHINE REVIEW