Automatic Age

February , 1938
Celebrates Silver
Anniversary In
Music Business
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AUTOMATIC AGE
penny vender that can be had at a
moderate price. It gives ample dis­
play at front and two sides of the
machine, glass is double thick and
cabinet has features which give it
double strength, the makers state.
“It has a capacity of approximately
five pounds and has many features
which the operator will greatly ap­
preciate, such as easy servicing, two-
toned enamel with chrome trim, non­
corrosive, simplified slug detection,
etc.
“The Penny Shop is a machine to
bring bulk vending up to a high
plane in merchandising that it de­
serves,” officials of the firm say. “It
is the pride of our presentation and
is recommended to operators who
want a real business in the vending
field. It has three compartments
and all the features that we know
how to build into machines. We can
also make a real automatic store by
putting on additional columns, such
as a six-column store.”
FACTORY CLOSE OUT ON KICKERS!
5 Ball Novelty Game
From a spring-wound phonograph
to Wurlitzer Automatic Phonographs
—that’s the 25-year story of J. F.
Johnson of Omaha, Nebraska, sum­
med up in one sentence.
Yes, the owner of the Johnson Mu­
sic Company is now celebrating his
silver anniversary in the automatic
music business—and one sentence
can’t begin to do justice to his activi­
ties during the past quarter century.
Now 62, Mr. Johnson left a profit­
able hotel and restaurant business to
enter the more profitable automatic
music business. That was back in
1913. Today the Johnson Music Com­
pany is looking forward to even
greater activity in the next 25 years,
and Mr. Johnson’s son Cliff L. John­
son is going to play a major part in
that activity.
The picture of Mr. Johnson shows
him in the famous Wurlitzer “clam­
bake costume.” He was one of the
nine honor guests at last August's
Wurlitzer Century Club Convention,
of happy memory.
Here’s how he feels about phono­
graphs: “ I can say without hesita­
tion that I’ve done a lot of business
and made money with phonographs.
I’m 100% sold on them.”
$ O C 0 0 EACH FOR BALANCE
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OF STOCK
This is the final sale on this model
SHYVERS MFG. CO.
2315 W. HURON ST.
CHICAGO, ILL.
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Two Bulk Venders
Featured By Ad-Lee
The Ad-Lee Company reports that
two types of vending machines dis­
played by it at the 1938 Coin Ma­
chine Show drew an immediate and
heavy response. The two machines
have been designed to give the oper­
ator a real machine for the present
trend toward the bulk vending field.
One of the machines, the Century
confection vender, is a single-column
AND FINISHES
W ITH OR
WITHOUT
YOUR OWN
NAME
S H Y V E R S MFG. CO.
2315 W. H U RO N ST.
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