Automatic Age

The World’s First Coin Machine Magazine
AUTOM ATIC AGE
Covering Automatic Machines and Coin-Controlled Devices of
Every Description
Vol. 16
No. 2
SEPTEM BER, 1939
Features in This Issue
Established 1925
Page
SORTING COINS W IT H THE ED IT O R
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TEN YEARS AGO IN THE COIN M ACHINE
IN D U ST RY ------ --------------------- --------- H
O. C. L IG H T N E R
President
M AKE OPERATING YO U R CAREER. NOT
JUST A STEPPING STONE
By Arthur V. Cooley ------------------------- IS
FROM HORSE AND BUGGY DAGUERROSCOPE
TO THE MODERN P H O T O M A T IC ........ ............................ 16
A RE YOU GETTING THE MOST
FROM YO U R ROUTE?
By W. R. Greiner --------------------------- 17
CA RROLL E. V ETTERICK
Editor— Adv. Director
SHOP AND SHOWROOM
A News Review of New Coin Machine Products_22-23
SHOULD TOBACCO JOBBERS O P E R A T E ? --------- 27
MARTIN J. MRAZ
ASSOCIATION NEWS --------- ---- -------------- 33
Ass’t. Editor
FOR AMUSEMENT O N L Y .................................................... 40
W H O ’S W H O IN THE COIN M ACHIN E IN D U ST RY—51-82
ON THE R E C O R D ...... .................. ................ * ---------- 83
Staff Contributors:
YO U R PHONOGRAPH MAKES THE LOCATION
REA LLY YOU RS!
By Harold R. Perkins ------------------------ 85
JOHN GOODBODY
N E W PATENTS
KEN SHYVERS
By Ken C. Shyvers _________________________________ 94
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