Speed Zone
Letters to
the editor
• • •
We read about the Speed Zone
from Imperial Investment Co. in
your December issue of Play Meter.
Could you let us have the address of
Imperial Investment because we are
interested in their machine.
Robin Lim
Marketing Director
Unisource Pte Limited
Singapore
[Editor's Note: We have gotten
quite a few calls and letters for this
address. So, we will take this oppor-
tunity to print it.]
Imperial Investment
1974A Douglas Blvd.
Louisville, KY 40205
502/588-0010
Doom to bust not new
The two-part series "The Future
Behind Us" is a remarkable docu-
ment and stands as a monument co
Ralph Lally and Play Meter. Never
before in coin machine hisrory has a
decade been so dissected; the good,
the bad, the ups, the downs. Only a
publication that has the pulse of an
industry could do it. It's never been
done before.
Boom to bust is nothing new to
coin machines. There was booms in
1892, 1898, 1907, 1923, 1932, 1942-
1945, 1948, and the '50's. In each
case the driver was a new idea
followed by a rash of similar
machines. And, in each case, the
boom was followed by a bust led by
over optimism, over production,
and under interest on the part of the ·
players. The same situation has
proven tO be true once again, a fact
clearly revealed in "The Future
Behind Us."
But history tells us there is
another boom right around the
corner. If it has happened so often
before, it will happen again. All that
is needed is a new idea. Someone,
somewhere, has the seeds of the
next boom on paper or on a board. If
our industry can offer any thing co
make "The Future Before Us" a
pos1nve one, it is encouragement.
Richard M. Bueschel
Coin Machine Historian
Northbrook, Illinois
PLAY METER. Morch 1. 1985
Pay phones
I am writing to you about pay
phones. I need to know more about
this subject and I figured if anyone
knew, you would .
I am considering starting a route
but would like to know more con-
cerning stats, etc.
Jack Crittenden
Urbandale, Iowa
[Edit or's Note: Last issue we pub-
lished a complete rundown on all
the current private pay phones on
the market, as well as a state-by-
state status report. As for checking
out which telephones are best for
you, we recommend you visit Play
Meter's AOE '85, March 29-31.
There you'll have the first oppor-
tunity to see all the pay phones
exhibited together under the same
roof.]
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operator/ reader.
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