Automatic Age

Robot Ramblings
is good news for ice cream vending ma­
chines in prospect. It has appeared that
ice cream venders would only be profitable
during the hot season. But the ice cream
trade is steadily and surely building up
a year-round trade.
“ A t lot of business could be done with
perfume venders, if some manufacturer
would make an adjustable vender which
would vend two or more drops for a penny.
The manufacturers of the spray machines
now on the market claim that their venders
will make a profit of about $10.00 per
bottle. This is too much to expect from
a deflated public.”
(Contributed by a
Florida operator).
Repeatoscope Service of New York say
that they are going right ahead in the
final stages of getting their nickel-in-the-
slot moving picture machine ready for the
market.
Say they will not make public
announcement until machines are fully
ready for distribution.
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Palmer & Koehler have just written that
the response to their announcement of the
new Penny King Aspirin vender in the
June issue was very gratifying. One Chi­
cago operator reported sales of $4.00 to
$8.00 the first month on a route of 30
machines.
Lewis Brothers of Newark, N. J. specilize
in penny candy goods and have recently
announced an attractively
vari-colored
cocoanut piece called Beefsteaks.
A trip to the arcade, White City, Chi­
cago, showed that the Iron Claw machines
were apparently getting the best play of
all the machines.
The players did not
seem to be interested so much in the
slum, as in getting the prizes. This arcade
has so many old and obsolete machines
in it, that it appears manufacturers ought
to start a campaign against obsolete ma­
chines. Quite a number of disgruntled
players were seen, who had tried to play
a machine only to lose their penny. Arcades
in such places where the crowds are tran­
sient can keep up a good intake the whole
season, because the crowds are always
changing. But it sure is giving the coin
machine business a black eye.
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