Automatic Age

The World’s First Coin Machine Magazine
AUTOMATIC ACE
Covering Automatic Machines and Coin-Controlled Devices of
Every Description
Vol. 14
A P R IL 1938
No. 9
Features in This Issue
Established 1925
Page
SORTING COINS WITH THE EDITOR
By Hubert F. Messe’ ________________ 14
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By Gene L. B arron__________________ 16
GOODBODY’S COLUMN
By John Goodbody---- ^___________ 18
O. C. LIGHTNER
WHAT IS A COIN MACHINE?
By Will R. G olden__________________ 20
President
AUTOMATIC MERCHANDISING
By Walter Gm0mersheimer__________ 22
ANOTHER SIDE OF THE S T O R Y ____________ 32
SHOTS AT YOUR FUNNY B O N E ______________ 42
HUBERT F. MESSE
ASSOCIATION N E W S _________________________ 46
Managing Editor
TEN YEARS AGO ___________________________ 53
NICKELS AND SENSE _______________________56
VOX O P _____________________________________ —57
The Voice of the Operator
NEW PATENTS ______________________________ 65
By Ken C. Shyvers
FROM OVER THE S E A _______________________ 70
Staff Contributors:
INTERVIEW OF THE M ONTH________________ 81
JOHN GOODBODY
OPERATOR’S M EN U *___ _____________________ 90
ON THE R E C O R D _____________________________ 95
News about the men in the phonograph
division of the Coin Machine Industry, and
news which is of interest to them.
KEN SHYVERS
Published Monthly by
THE LIGHTNER PUBLISHING CORP.
Executive Office, 2810 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111.
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