Automatic Age

T h e A u t o m a t ic A ge
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N e w ORLEANS OFFERS FINE
OPPORTUNITY FOR A N ARCADE
By O. C. LIGHTNER
Last month I had the pleasure of
^'siting my old home town, New Or-
aris- I am not a native of New
rieans, but was down in that sec-
°n for seven years in newspaper
ar,d Publishing work. It has been
01 years since I visited the old place,
and naturally I enjoyed my visit very
^Uch.
^ had the pleasure of talking with
of our enthusiastic subscribers,
'uney o . Broussard, a member of
e famous Broussard family of that
1 e» which has had two .United
tates Senators.
it. New Orleans is a one street
town; namely, Canal Street, and one
peculiarity about it is that it is both
the n ght and day center of both lo­
cal and transient population. New
Orieans is a city that attracts lots of
visitors and is always full of sailors
from ships that are in port. It is
also a city where all classes mix, and
an arcade around Rampart and Canal
Streets would clean up.
We might also add that New Or­
leans is not a high rent city. There
is a little arcade down in the colored
section on South Rampart Street
* found Sidney just as I expected, that I did not have time to visit. O f
course an arcade located in New Or­
J typical “ Cajin.” These folks are
leans, as well as any other city,
led “ Cajins” because they are de-
would have to cater strictly to white
endants from the old Acadians who
ere driven out of Nova Scotia 200 folks or to colored folks.
I caw a very unusual amusement
ago and settled in Louisiana.
machine in a shooting gallery on
18 chap is a coming operator. He
S head over heels interested in it Bienville Street. It was a coal mine
and a nickel dropped in a slot set
of »iS building up a well paying route
the mine in motion and showed a
Exhibit post card machines, New
Ma*
complete miniature coal mine with
aster machines, tickle ball gum ma­
chi
the miners, elevator shafts and ev­
nes and several others.
j, he largest operator is Albert Du- erything working. I never saw one
like it before, and no doubt the own­
who has 400 machines, includ-
er of it would probably like to get
® Ending machines and scales,
rid of it. It would be a money mak­
talked with Bob Church on the
v ePhone. He is operating mint er in a good arcade.
, oers jn j efferson Parish where
^ace track is located.
Automatic Newsboys
Th
in \ 6 ’ S a new Photomaton place
New Qrleans, which seems to be
& a land office business.
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6 *S a^S°
biggest °PP°r"
1 l!^ ^0r a Penny arcade there that
^ now of in the United States.
f 0 eoody is losing an everlasting
Ur)e and there is no joke about
© International Arcade Museum
On several German railroad sta-
t'ons new systems have been in­
stalled whereas the commutor can
chooce his morning paper and get it
quickly through the automatic ma­
chine vending several different pa­
pers.
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