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Issue: 1976 December 023

Coin Slot Magazine - #023 - 1976 - December [International Arcade Museum]
SALOON
ANTIQUITIES
Box 35242
Edina, Minn.
55435
FOR SALE
5 cent and 10 cent AIKENS 3 REELERS
25 cent PACES REELS
$475.00
5 cent PACES SARATOGA with PIN BALL
$550.00
5 cent BONUS BELL UPRIGHT
$850.00
5 cent EXTRAORDINARY UPRIGHT
$900.00
5 cent COLUMBIA CIGARETTE REEL
$350.00
FOR TRADE
HAPPY JAP GUM BALL MACHINE
ROULETTE WHEEL, TABLE AND LAYOUT
5 cent WATLING BROWNIE
5 cent MILLS OWL JR.
5 cent MILLS DEWEY
5 cent COWPERS CRACKER JACK
25 cent BUCKLEY BONES
WANTED
Cast Iron or Wooden Counter Top Machines Payout or Non-payout
Small Crap Table, Unusual Punch Boards
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Coin Slot Magazine - #023 - 1976 - December [International Arcade Museum]
An Interview With Harvey Carr, Founder And Editor
Of Automatic Age And The Coin Machine Journal
By Larry Lubliner and Dick Bueschel Introduction
In August, 1925, the first issue of AUTOMATIC AGE was published. It
was a small magaxine as far as trade publications go, but it was the first
independent trade paper devoted to all phases of the coin machine indus
try, from manufacturer to operator. Prior to its introduction the field
had only been served by an external house organ published by the Mills
Novelty Company called SPINNING REELS, then two years old, and by
a few pages of editorial and advertising in current issues of THE BILL
BOARD.
AUTOMATIC AGE was the brainchild of Harvey Carr, then an editor for
O.C. Lightner of the Lightner Publishing Corporation, a Chicago- based
publisher of a variety of trade periodicals reaching farm and industry.
Carr ran AUTOMATIC AGE for three years, and then left Lightner to
form his own publishing house of Wilson-Carr, also in Chicago, introduc-
cing the even more successful THE COIN MACHINE JOURNALin July
1931.
Both publications remained the leading trade papers in the coin
machine field until their demise after World War II.
Retired for over a decade, and now in his seventies, Carr vividly remem
bers the early days of his publications, and the events of those years. He
recounted them to Larry Lubliner and Dick Bueschel in a rare interview
in November 1976 in his home. The trappings and remnants of his years
as the leading editorial writer in the coin machine field are long gone.
But not his memory. Carr's mind is as bright as a new trade check, and
his words are straight out of the Golden Age of coin machines. He knew
the Big People intimately, and the small ones, and he tells us about them.
At times his comments are at variance with historical facts, but no matter.
He reports what he saw, and what was told to him, and if the stories aren't
exactly true that's the way they talked about them at the time. He didn't
create the stories; he reported them. For above all Carr was a reporter,
and the best in his business. No attempt was made in the interview to
challenge Carr or attempt to straighten out the record. The words were
taken rapid fire just as they came to provide an insight into the coin ma
chine past as it was talked about, and lived.
Interview
"Everything is the result of something else. In school, I learned to be an
expert stenographer. I got a job with the Council of Charities, going from
town to .town to set up fund drives just prior to World War I. When the
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a small Southern publication called SWEETS, serving the candy and con-
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