Automatic Age
Issue: 1938 February - Page 116
AUTOMATIC AGE
120
W H Y C A RRY A SPARE?
116)
will take samples of all the late-type
machines from other locations and
bring them over here and put them
in operation. In the meantime, I have
enough extra machines to cover the
locations where the machines will be
removed.” It wasn’t three days later
that they decided on the machines, but
unless this operator had a few extra
machines on hand, he would either
have to pass up the opportunity of
giving an actual trial to this location
owner, or else he would have to leave
some of his other locations without
machines temporarily, and this would,
in turn, reduce his prestige with these
locations.
So much for that instance. This
same operator makes a practice of
carrying an extra machine in his car
every time he covers his route. When
he finds a location owner who, by any
word, action, or attitude, seems to in
dicate a desire to buy an operator’s
own machines, he finds something
-wrong with the machine in the loca
tion, and tells him that it is time to
take that machine back to the shop
for a going-over and lubrication.
Having the spare machine, he can use
it in the location temporarily.
Another good point he brought out
(Continued from page
was the advisability of never telling
the location anything about the me
chanical construction or operation of
the machine. He keeps the machine a
mystery to the location, thereby con
veying an impression that he is a
specialist in a line of business that
would take the location owner several
years to learn.
When you have worked hard to get
a new location and finally secure that
consent through creating a desire on
the merchant’s part to have a ma
chine, he does not want you to delay
a week or two weeks in getting the
equipment so that he can start mak
ing money. He wants the machine
then and there; and if you are not
“Johnny-on-the-spot” with the ma
chine for him, you are simply leav
ing an opening for someone else to
step in, or giving him time to recon
sider his decision.
W urlitzer’s Snapshot
Contest Winners
In connection with the first annual
convention of the Wurlitzer Century
Club held a few months ago, the
guests were invited to send in their
best snapshots of the big three-day
party, to compete for prizes totalling
$50.00 in cash.
February, 1938
The response was astonishing—
literally hundreds of camera studies
of all kinds were sent to the Wur
litzer offices in North Tonawanda.
The judges were swamped not for
weeks, but for months.
Selection of the prize-winners was
made even more difficult, because of
the exceptional excellence of all the
snapshots submitted. The final sifting
brought out these winners:
Jerome Frazen of Chicago’s Modern
Music Company copped first prize and
a check for $25.00.
Maude Melvin of Bangor, Maine,
daughter of pioneer operator, M. A.
Melvin, who was one of the convention
honor guests, took second place and
an award of $15.00.
Third prize and $10.00 went to Don
Leary, president of Automatic Sales
Company of Minneapolis.
Fourth honors went to Albert J.
Navickas of Forestville, Connecticut,
along with a five-dollar bill. And two
consolation awards of two dollars each
went to Babe Kaufman of New York
City and Norman Stevens of Sedalia,
Missouri.
Every entrant retains—a personal
camera record of some of the high
lights of the Century Club’s conven
tion.
YOUR PUBLIC DEMANDS
C m i-m t 'k c
T
J p W
Ball Gum Vender with
Automatic Token Payout
W atch your customers go fo r this supersize Jackpot, with its mag
nificent money display. When reels line up on the Jackpot combina
tion, player presses button on side o f Jackpot, and an avalanche of
coins rushes into the payout cup, fillin g it to overflow. Here is live
action, to the heart's content o f every player, because jackpot is
paid in addition to the award tokens which are issued at frequent
intervals, on winning combinations.
Jackpot operation is very positive, and no amount of manipulation
will empty jackpot, unless the winning combination appears on the
reels. Jackpot is filled by hand, through opening in top, but paid
autom atically.
Tokens, which call fo r one to ten packs of cigarettes, may be replaced
in payout tube with quarters, which will be paid out in the customary
manner.
Colored Horse Strips have a proven player appeal; other strips such
as Beer symbols, etc., may be substituted from tim e to time, to fit
particular locations.
The legal Ball Gum Vender, 300 balls capacity, helps you to open
many territories to the operation of this novel p ro fit maker.
To meet the keen com petition of 1938—
operate "Sparks"— fo r substantial profits,
^
Each
"ce rtifie d payouts."
P ri ce ^
$QQSO
O F F IC IA L R E L E A S E D A T E
F E B R U A R Y 19TH
G R O E T C H E N TO O L CO.
128 N. Union St.
Chicago, ILL.
© International Arcade Museum
http://www.arcade-museum.com/
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W H Y C A RRY A SPARE?
116)
will take samples of all the late-type
machines from other locations and
bring them over here and put them
in operation. In the meantime, I have
enough extra machines to cover the
locations where the machines will be
removed.” It wasn’t three days later
that they decided on the machines, but
unless this operator had a few extra
machines on hand, he would either
have to pass up the opportunity of
giving an actual trial to this location
owner, or else he would have to leave
some of his other locations without
machines temporarily, and this would,
in turn, reduce his prestige with these
locations.
So much for that instance. This
same operator makes a practice of
carrying an extra machine in his car
every time he covers his route. When
he finds a location owner who, by any
word, action, or attitude, seems to in
dicate a desire to buy an operator’s
own machines, he finds something
-wrong with the machine in the loca
tion, and tells him that it is time to
take that machine back to the shop
for a going-over and lubrication.
Having the spare machine, he can use
it in the location temporarily.
Another good point he brought out
(Continued from page
was the advisability of never telling
the location anything about the me
chanical construction or operation of
the machine. He keeps the machine a
mystery to the location, thereby con
veying an impression that he is a
specialist in a line of business that
would take the location owner several
years to learn.
When you have worked hard to get
a new location and finally secure that
consent through creating a desire on
the merchant’s part to have a ma
chine, he does not want you to delay
a week or two weeks in getting the
equipment so that he can start mak
ing money. He wants the machine
then and there; and if you are not
“Johnny-on-the-spot” with the ma
chine for him, you are simply leav
ing an opening for someone else to
step in, or giving him time to recon
sider his decision.
W urlitzer’s Snapshot
Contest Winners
In connection with the first annual
convention of the Wurlitzer Century
Club held a few months ago, the
guests were invited to send in their
best snapshots of the big three-day
party, to compete for prizes totalling
$50.00 in cash.
February, 1938
The response was astonishing—
literally hundreds of camera studies
of all kinds were sent to the Wur
litzer offices in North Tonawanda.
The judges were swamped not for
weeks, but for months.
Selection of the prize-winners was
made even more difficult, because of
the exceptional excellence of all the
snapshots submitted. The final sifting
brought out these winners:
Jerome Frazen of Chicago’s Modern
Music Company copped first prize and
a check for $25.00.
Maude Melvin of Bangor, Maine,
daughter of pioneer operator, M. A.
Melvin, who was one of the convention
honor guests, took second place and
an award of $15.00.
Third prize and $10.00 went to Don
Leary, president of Automatic Sales
Company of Minneapolis.
Fourth honors went to Albert J.
Navickas of Forestville, Connecticut,
along with a five-dollar bill. And two
consolation awards of two dollars each
went to Babe Kaufman of New York
City and Norman Stevens of Sedalia,
Missouri.
Every entrant retains—a personal
camera record of some of the high
lights of the Century Club’s conven
tion.
YOUR PUBLIC DEMANDS
C m i-m t 'k c
T
J p W
Ball Gum Vender with
Automatic Token Payout
W atch your customers go fo r this supersize Jackpot, with its mag
nificent money display. When reels line up on the Jackpot combina
tion, player presses button on side o f Jackpot, and an avalanche of
coins rushes into the payout cup, fillin g it to overflow. Here is live
action, to the heart's content o f every player, because jackpot is
paid in addition to the award tokens which are issued at frequent
intervals, on winning combinations.
Jackpot operation is very positive, and no amount of manipulation
will empty jackpot, unless the winning combination appears on the
reels. Jackpot is filled by hand, through opening in top, but paid
autom atically.
Tokens, which call fo r one to ten packs of cigarettes, may be replaced
in payout tube with quarters, which will be paid out in the customary
manner.
Colored Horse Strips have a proven player appeal; other strips such
as Beer symbols, etc., may be substituted from tim e to time, to fit
particular locations.
The legal Ball Gum Vender, 300 balls capacity, helps you to open
many territories to the operation of this novel p ro fit maker.
To meet the keen com petition of 1938—
operate "Sparks"— fo r substantial profits,
^
Each
"ce rtifie d payouts."
P ri ce ^
$QQSO
O F F IC IA L R E L E A S E D A T E
F E B R U A R Y 19TH
G R O E T C H E N TO O L CO.
128 N. Union St.
Chicago, ILL.
© International Arcade Museum
http://www.arcade-museum.com/
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