Letters to
the editor • • •
Successful show
Just a note to thank you for inviting
me to be a special part of AOE '85. I
am delighted that it was such a success,
and you should feel very proud. You
have overcome a lot of factors working
against you. And you did it with real
style.
The feedback on the exhibit floor
was very positive. Everyone felt that
the show was successful and beneficial
to them. Congratulations! Again,
thanks for your hospitality.
Sharon Harris
Stan Harris & Co., Inc.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Thanks Gil
Mr. Louis Boasberg's letter (Left
Gil Out, March 15, 1985) really hit
home.
My father, Bob Portale (Portable
Automatic Sales Co.), was awarded
the Gottlieb (now Premier Technol-
ogy) product line for distribution in
Southern California during the late
1960's. It was to be the cornerstone of
what was then the dominant amuse-
ment game distributorship in Southern
California until the time of his passing
in 1977. The "Gottlieb Methodology"
that Mr. Boasberg writes of was part
of the reason for his success.
My brother, Tom, and I have a
PLAY METER. May 1 5. 1985
successful game operation in the
Southern California market because
of this same "Gottlieb Methodology."
The majority of our growing pinball
fleet is Gottlieb. Most are over four
years old but looking, as well as play-
ing, like new. Through proper main-
tenance and operating techniques we
now have the cash flow to fuel the
current growth in our company, not
experienced since the 1981-82 years.
Manufacturers, distributors, oper-
ators take note. We currently have a
very positive situation in our market.
We have satisfied game players, satis-
fied locations, satisfied operators, and
satisfied distributors. Plus we have the
doors of the producer of the product
that created this very positive situation
still open.
You bet I am grateful to Gil Pollock
for keeping those doors open and to
distributors like Louis Boasberg for
having the ability to show us operators
how to make money with their
machines.
Bob J. Portale
West Coast Amusement
Solana Beach, California
Needs articles
I am a small coin machine operator
and do service work . I had a collection
of all technical articles published in
Play Meter. However, recently my
shop burned and my collection was
destroyed.
1 consider you as the great experi-
enced teacher in this field; and would
like photocopies of all your technical
articles, because your articles are so
valuable to me.
Le Huu Dzu
Video Le Dzu
Ontario, Canada
include our product the VendaPhone
in your list of suppliers.
Our product is FCC registered
(EHY588-14482-CX-T) and complies
with all P.U.C. rulings to date.
XCP has been developing the
Venda Phone for two years and is a
pioneer in the marketing of the pri-
vately owned pay phone concept.
To date, these marketing efforts .
have resulted in contractual sales of
II ,000 units. We are definitely a
leader in the industry.
We appreciate your magazine and
the service you provide to the vending
industry.
Eward Oliver
National Marketing/Sales Manager
XCP, Inc.
8 W. Main Street
P.O. Box 819
Dryden, NY 13053
607/844-9143
(Editor's Note: The pay telephone
industry is a new one and we don't
know all the companies involved. If
others were omitted, please send name
and address for inclusion in future
private pay phone updates.]
Something on your mind you want to
vent? Got a gripe? Full of praise? Have a
question? If you have comments on the
coin operated entertainment industry,
write to Play Meter. Our "Letters to the
Editor" columns are dedicated to you, the
o per at or/ reader.
All letters must be signed; if requested,
only initials will be used or the name
withheld from print. Please include return
address. (Although, for the sake of your
privacy, addresses will not be printed.) All
letters subject to standard editing. Be
concise.
(Editor's Note: We try to offer opera-
tors strong technical advice and appar-
ently our efforts are worth it.)
Left out
After reading your article "DeJa
Vu" by Mike Shaw, and the status
report which followed on coin tele-
phones, I was surprised you did not
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