Automatic Age

80
June, 1939
AUTOMATIC AGE
Indians Play Bally Games
at W orld’s Fair
New York, May 13 — Ever
since the creation of the “Tribe
of O’Toole Indians” by Bally
Manufacturing Company, oper-
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CANDY CRAFTERS, INC.
"M akers of Good Candy”
Lansdowne, Pa.
ators everywhere in the world Control Commission so that abuses
have been interested in instances can be corrected and action can be
on the many complaints of the
where Indians have adapted taken
public. As the Liquor Board is now
themselves to the intricacies of set up it is powerless to cope with
coin machines, especially in con­ local authorities, who refuse to do
nection with the “O’Tooles” and anything to remedy many disgusting
conditions.
Bally.
Now it is learned that actual
Hershey Chocolate Net
American Indians have found
Is $1,795,514
Bally games a source of enter­
Hershey, Pa., May 13.— For the
tainment and relaxation at the March quarter the Hershey Chocolate
World’s Fair here. It seems, ac­ Company and its subsidiaries re­
cording to Bill Rabkin, president ported that it had a net profit of
of International Mutoscope-Reel $1,795,514. This was equal to $1.88
Co., Inc., this city, who has the each on 685,749 no-par common
after provisions had been made
glorified Penny Arcade at the shares
for the preferred stock. In the corre­
World’s Fair grounds where sponding period of 1938 a net profit
Bally novelty action pin games of $1,390,187, or $1.28 a common
are featured exclusively, that share, was reported.
the tribe of Seminole Indians
Up or Down?
brought to the Fair grounds by
the state of Florida, and who
The economic system under which
live at the grounds, are flocking
we have lived in the United States
to the Arcade every night just may be compared to a kind of escala­
to play Bally games.
tor, which has been moved by a com­
“Saturday night until 1:00 bination of forces and circumstances
A.M. three of the Seminole kid­ that have been more powerful in the
past in the United States than in
dies continued to play the Bally many
other countries. On this esca­
Basketball without a halt from lator the American people are ar­
about 10:00 P.M. when their ranged, as they always have been,
concession closes. We had some with most of them on the bottom
job getting them away so that steps and a few on the upper steps.
The escalator has always been mov­
we, too, could close,” said Rab­ ing
upward, and carrying the whole
kin. “Every night, just as regu­ population together to a higher level
lar as clock-work, the Seminole of prosperity. While the escalator
Indians enter the Arcade and has been carrying the whole popula­
within a few seconds are pulling tion to a higher level, some of the
the plunger on one Bally game people on each step of it have been
walking upstairs by virtue of their
or another. They’re so enthused own special enterprise and energy,
over the games that they find as well as by luck, while some also
this their greatest source of have been drifting down the stairs.
If we wish to have more prosperity
pleasure and relaxation.”
Seek To Reduce Number
of Illinois Taverns
IDEAL NOVELTY CO.
1518 Market Street,
St. Louis. Missouri
Chicago, 111., May 13.— A bill has
been introduced into the state legisla­
ture to reduce the number of taverns
in the state. If the bill is passed it
means that nearly 2,000 taverns in
Chicago will be closed. Chicago now
has issued 9,235 licenses for drinking
places. A section of the proposed
bill calls for one tavern for each 500
persons in the city’s population. This
bill would then permit the issuance
of only 7,260 licenses.
Backers of the bill declare they are
pushing it in order to put more power
into the hands of the State Liquor
© International Arcade Museum
in the United States, we must try to
increase the productive capacity of
the majority of the population who
are on the lower steps of the escala­
tor, make the escalator rise faster,
and encourage and aid everyone to
walk upstairs through his own ef­
forts.— V irgil Jordan.
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She— W hat’s the best dish they
have here, handsome?
He (absently)— The third blonde
from the left in the floor show.
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Housewife (to garbage man)— Am
I too late for the garbage?
Garbage Man— No ma’am, jump
right in.
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