Automatic Age

PLASTIC REPLACEMENT PARTS
FO R
Y O U R
P H O N O G R A P H S !
We have on hand a small stock of
ORIGINAL plastic replacement parts
for Wurlitzer phonographs.
Ea.
Model 71 Top Corners ............. $ 3.50
“ 71 Bottom Corners ........
4.50
3.50
“ 500 Grille Plastics .......
“ 700 Top Corners ...........
9.35
“ 700 Red Top Plastics (above
front door) .............
2.00
“ 700 upper back sides (green) 5.50
“
700 Lower Sides ............. 10.35
“ 800 Top Corners............. 14.50
“ 800 Lower Sides ............. 15.00
“ 800 top center plastics (onyx) 4.00
“ 800 Upper Back Sides (green) 6.50
“ 800 Top Red Plastics (above
front door) ...............
8.50
“ 800 Grille Plastics (bubble
4.00
part) ..........................
“ 850 Direct top center (red) 14.50
“ 950 Lower Side Plastics
15.00
“ 750 Top center plastics (red) 5.50
We mold the following UNBREAK­
ABLE replacement plastics and now
have them available for:
Ea.
Wurlitzer Model 61 Top Corners $ 4.25
“
“
600 Top Corners 4.25
“
“ 500 Top Corners
(red only)
6.75
“
“ 750 Top Corners 17.50
“
“ 750 Bot. Corners 17.50
“
“ 850 Top Corners 19.50
“
“
850 Bot. Corners 17.50
Rockola Models— Standard, Master,
Super, Top Corners (red or
yellow) ............................ $17.50 Ea.
We have the following SHEET PLAS­
TIC available (size of sheet approxi­
mately 20”x50”— 1000 square inches):
40 Gauge Yellow Plastic (thickness of
a new dime), 2c Per Sq. In.
60 Gauge Red Plastic (thickness of a
new half dollar), 3c Per Sq. In.
80 Gauge Red or Yellow (thickness of
a new silver dollar), 4c Per Sq. In.
We cut sheet plastic to desired size.
10% discount on complete sheets.
IF YOU DON’T SEE WHAT YOU
WANT. ASK FOR IT.
WE MAY HAVE IT IN STOCK.
TERMS: 1/3 Deposit with Order—Bal­
ance C. 0 . 1).— F. O. B. New York. No
Orders Taken W ithout Deposit—
Checks Acceptable.
Acme Sales Co.
C A S H
P A ID
for Slots, Music, Cigarette, or
Arcade Machines.
TEL.— 577
O m Q l C M 8 9 T h a m e s S t r e e I
□ n i d i Newport, Rhode Island
A N O T H E R
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whereof, or as a result of the opera­
tion of which a n y merchandise,
money, representative or articles of
value, checks, or tokens, redeemable
in, or exchangeable for money or any
other thing of value, is won or lost,
or taken from or obtained from such
machine, when the result of action or
operation of such machine, contriv­
ance, appliance, or mechanical device
is dependent upon hazard or chance,
is guilty of a misdeameanor, . . "
The first requirement of the section is
that the mechanical device be operated by
money or other thing of value which is
risked or hazarded by the player. That
requirement is met by the pin ball machine
which is operated by the deposit of a
nickel in its mechanism. The remaining
question is this: Does the amusement af­
forded by a free game, or games, awarded
the player for a high score amount to mer­
chandise, money, representative or articles
of value, checks, or tokens, redeemable in,
or exchangeable for money or any other
thing of value? The existence of at least
one of these factors is made necessary by
the statute in order to classify the machine
a gambling device.
Certainly the amusement of a free game
is neither merchandise nor money nor
checks nor tokens redeemable in or ex­
changeable for any other thing of value.
Merchandise and money are tangible ar­
ticles tha* do not include the intangible
amusement of a free game. Their defini­
tions are too clear and well known to re­
quire argument supporting this conclusion.
The same should be true of checks or to­
kens redeemable o r exchangeable f o r
money or any other thing of value. Those
checks or tokens must of necessity be at
least material or visible in order to be ex­
changeable.
In some cases from other jurisdictions
it appears that the high score was shown
in illuminated numbers on the machine
and the player was rewarded by the de­
livery of money or merchandise thereby
M O N T H
N E A R E R
won. Such transactions were held to be
sufficient to bring the machines within the
prohibitions of the law. Here nothing of
the kind occurred. The machine registered
the score but the player received nothing
in exchange for it but the right to continue
the game. He received no check or token
that he could exchange for anything.
Defendant maintains that the language
of the section, "or as a result of the opera­
tion cf which any . . . representative or
articles of value . . . is won or lost", is
broad enough to include the amusement
of a free game.
In support of this argument he relies on
what was said in the cases already cited,
to the effect that a free game giving amuse­
ment to the player is something of suffi­
cient value to render the machine a gamb­
ling device. He argues that the words
"representative or articles of value" have
the precise meaning of "things of value"
and concludes that a free game was a
representative or article of value under
the cases already cited. He bases his argu­
ment on the fourth definition of "article"
in the New English Dictionary, Oxford,
1889, Vol. 1 , page 471, which is as follows:
"A separate thing (immaterial or material)"
and on the following definition in Century
Dictionary, 1911: "Article . . . 6. A mater­
ial thing as part of a class, or absolutely,
a particular substance or commodity: as
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$ 4 .2 5
M odel 40
$ 3 .9 0
M o d e l Penny
M e r c h a n d is e r
$ 3 .9 0
S in g le F lo o r S t a n d s
$ 1 .2 5
W a l l B ra c k e ts
$
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R o u te C a r d s ( p e r 1 0 0 ) $
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PENNY ARCADE HEADQUARTERS SINCE 1895
P e a n u t P ro d u c ts
Manufacturers of Photomatic and Other Famous Coin Operated Equipment
Com pany
44-01 Eleventh Street
Long Islan d C ity, N ew Y o rk
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