Automatic World

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Will Pin Games Last?
Automatic World,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Gentlemen:
Enclosed please find check for
$1.00. Kindly send me AUTOMATIC
WORLD for coming year.
Things have been · tough here but
are improving greatly. I expect a
good winter.
Please give me your honest opin-
ion whether to go into pin games any
deeper. I am contemplating adding
50 more to my string, but before
pUrchasing I am waiting to hear from
you. Would like to know if they are
going to blow up like Pee-Wee Golf.
I can't afford to hold the sack for
the factories. A s I have no way of
knowing out here in the W est, I am
asking you.
P. L.-California.
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Wants Our Black List
Automatic World,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Gentlemen:
Would thank you to mail me your
"Black List" of crooked jobbers and
manufacturers who have failed to
shoot straight with you and the op-
erators.
Your last issue of AUTOMATIC
WORLD was a good one and very
interesting.
F. T . H.-Texas.
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Business Doubles fo;-
This Firm
Automatic World,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Gentlemen:
We have your letter of September
15th quoting us advertising rates,
and shall be glad to have you .run
the enclos.e d 1 inch ad in your J ob-
bel's Directory. You may run this
ad until further notice.
We also enclose 48c in stamps to
cover classified advertisement in the
October issue.
During the past month we have
doubled our display, and we now
have the largest display of coin-op-
erated machines in San Francisco.
And although bu siness in the past
has been very good, through in-
creased advertising, etc., w.e have
just about doubled our volume of
business during the past month.
WORLD
If you know of any manufac-
turers that are looking for Western
connections, we shall be glad to have
you refer them to u s.
Yours v·e ry truly,
VIKING SPECIALTY CO.-Cal.
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Automatic World Great
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Automatic World,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Gentlemen:
Enclosed you will find one dollar
bill for 15 months subscription to
AUTOMATIC WORLD . I think my
subscription for the WORLD is up
this month. It has b een a great help
to me in buying merchandise.
H. S. JOHNSON-Okla.
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Automatic World
Recommended
Automatic World,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Gentlemen:
I have recently become interested
in the possibilities of vending ma-
chines. Your magazine " AUTOMAT-
IC WORLD," has been favorably
recommended by a friend of mine a s
carrying the best information along
this line.
Therefore, please inform me what
the yearly subscription is for your
periodical.
If possible, I should like to secure
a sample copy of your magazine.
Thank you.
A. M.-Mass.
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Appreciates Articles-
Wants Black List
Automatic World,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Gentlemen:
The writer greatly appreciates your
article in July issue pertaining to
"Selling Machines to Location Own-
ers."
I would like to receive the list of
manufacturers, jobbers and distrib-
utors who have failed to shoot square
with you, as I know it will mean some-
thing to operators to know who the
"gyps" are.· Thanks and power to
you all.
L. M. A.-Texas.
November, 1932
Does Not Agree with
October Article
Automatic World,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Dear Mr. Murray:
Thanks for the copy of AUTO-
MATIC WORLD that you was so
kind to send me. I am a small op-
erator, operating something over
100 tables in the southwestern sec-
tion of Louisiana. Most all my ta-
bles are double ones as I find that
that type of table gets the berries
where no other type will. I have
done fairly well with Stevo Jak-Pot
in the oil fields territory, but have
more or less trouble with rocking,
tilting and complaints that jak-pot
do n't payoff, etc.
I note with interest the Morris
Maynor, Jr. story, "Southern Travel-
ing Man's Viewpoint" in October is-
sue of your paper. I don't fully
agree with this man's viewpoint on
depots and bus stations.
I have
tried both in my territory and find
them poorly played.
Cafes, drug
stores and barb er shops prove my
best. Dry goods stores in some of the
oil fields have proven good. Pool
rooms and such as booze joints are
worthless locations in my experience.
I always try to stay within the laws
of the territory I operate in and hold
myself above playing the dives that
some operato rs play. 1m in the skill-
games to stay and will do all I can
to make it a gentleman's game. En-
closed is my check for $1.00 for the
WORLD.
E. R. G.-La.
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Against Blanket Tax
Automatic World,
Fort Worth, Texas.
Gentlemen:
An operator who has relatives op-
erating elsewhere in this state, tells
me they find considerable noise
around that some of the larger and
richer operators are planning to lob-
by through a bill at the next session
of the Legislature calling for a stiff
operator's blanket license instead of
a per machine tax. The figures
talked are $500 or $1,000 annually.
The former figure would equal 370
machines at $1.50 each.
It looks to me like this is an effort
at "bagging" the show, which would
result in serious curtailment of bus-
iness to machine manufacturers,
merchandise manufacturers, distrib-
utors and all interwoven interests
from transportation companies, up