Coin Slot Magazine - #042 - 1978 - July [International Arcade Museum]
VINCE
C.
Vincy!
from
SHAY
body knew the kid
Illinois.
That was
Every-
Lake
Forest
as Vince Shay star-
later, however,
up boy at the old
ted out as a clean
Company factory
Mills Novelty
Green.
He was so
that Herbert S.
into sales before
at Jackson and
sharp and
fast
Mills put him
years old.
he was twenty
Shay started
did he sell!
Vince
selling Hightops
in
career
entire
spanned
the
the
forties.
And
out
His
range of the
modern high-pro-
duction slot machine.
Everybody knew
Vince, and better yet,
body.
Vince knew every-
uncanny
knack
of
re-
name, and the last time
He had a totally
membering
everybody's
they went drinking together,
and after, his brother Grant
In later years, in the forties
Shay also joined Mills Industries as ad manager, and when Vince
and Grant got together hold your wallet and be ready to break up
over everything.
ED
PACE
I said the mysterious Ed Pace: why mysterious when he was so
well known in the twenties, thirties and forties?
Simple reason:
no photograph of Ed Pace ever appeared in the trade publications.
What did he look like? If anyone has a picture, I'd sure like a print.
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