Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1934 June - Page 17
PACIFIC 'COIN MACHINE REVIEW
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Pi~F~:C~=riryl~I_T_h_e __ T_r_e_n_d __ o_f __ t_h_e __ T_im __ e_s~II
TRADE TOPICS
r--------
Comments on Timely Subjects
-
by
-
P. W. BLACKFORD
Some day some operator is go-
ing to crawl out of the used ma-
,chines haze and fit himself up in
'8. business that will net him a
substantial profit and provide him
with an opportunity to make
more out of his old machines
than he could possibly get by
trading them in.
And that business IS renting out
amusement tables and slQt ma-
chines to private individuals for
parties, social functions, club
gatherings, etc.
The dailies are filled with an-
nouncements of get togethers,
the social page carries a list of
parties, etc. An operator could
get up an attractive circular let-
ter, embellished with a picture of
a machine or two ,and send to
the person in charge of these
functions and offer them some
~""'''
~
___ '-''-''' ___ "_~"_'''_'''''''IIIIfII . . ~_III--",~
.
BUY YOUR
.
World~s
Series 4
~
J
From Kansas' only Exclusive
Jobber.
We are located in the exact ~
~l center of the United States.
1
~
1 ~
~
~
o. b. Wlehlta
M. T. DANIELS
1025-1027 University Ave.
Wichita, Kansas
~1 ...
~-W- __ ""~-""",, __ ,,,,"..A.tfII~IIfI''''IIII- ...
a.;IliI
amusement machines at a nomi-
nal rental fee. His old machines
could be polished up and refin-
ished and used for such rentals.
government reply envelope
could be enclosed so as to make
it as easy as possible for the
person to reply.
During the past SIX months I
have attended a great number of
private parties and social gath-
erings where pin games and slot
machines would provide some-
thing new and different in the
way of entertainment for those
who do not desire to play cards
or dance all evening.
One or two operators in Los
Angeles are making a play for
this business but the field is big
and several dozen could make a
tidy sum out of such rentals.
There are two ways on which
this play could be operated. The
machines could be rented out at
so much per machine per night
or, if the party is a large one,
the operator could make a per-
centage arrangement with the in-
dividual.
Sometime ago THE
REVIEW carried a story on how
several Hollywood celebrities were
using slot machines for such
parties and their percentage off
of the take of the machines in
most 9ases covered the net on
the parties. This was an abso-
lute fact and this could be used
in selling the idea to the l10st or
hostess.
.
End your correspondence to ad-
vertisers by mentioning THE RE-
VIEW.
A
Several AlDplified AutoDlfltie
5e EleetrulDuse Phonograp~s
Cost. New $1,260 Each - Will Sacrifice - Sell in Lot or
Separate - Terms, If Necessary, to Suit
Southern Piano CoDlpany
44 North Raymond Ave.
Page Seventeen
Pasad~na,
Calif.
SEATTLE - Western Distribu-
LaSalle Map of :S~sineSs Conditions' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
tors, Inc., of Seattle, Washington,
found they had a considerable
number of good used pin games on
hand for which there was no mar-
ket. During the past two months
they have destroyed more than fif-
ty games to relieve the congestion
and take them out of circulation,
but hesitated to continue the
slaughter. It was finally decided
to take the matter up with the
Children's Orthopedic Hospital.
It was learned the hospital
would be glad to receive the ma-
chines and the first consignment
was soon made ready and deliv-
ered. Coin chutes were removed
and in their place handy wooden
plungers we re substituted so the
games could be played without
Fir6t Quarter 01 1934 Has Been Moat Encouraginll
'
coins. The cabinets were cleaned M ap Supplied by B USINESS BULLETI N Division of L aSalle Extension UniYersity,
and all working parts put in good
M arch has b een the best mon th since last has extended into Iowa, southern :Minn e-
condition. A number of Seattle summer, and unle ss strikes interfere April s ot a, n or t h ern Il linoi s, and southern 1\1 ic h.
will
be fully as good.
'
igan. 'l'h e Sou thern area has ex tendcfl t o
operators voluntarily contributed
Our "Very Good" areas have broaden ed cent ral and w es tern K entuck y and western
m.achines to swell the list. "A pin until the Northwestern area now extends a nd sou th ern South Carolina. Louisiana.
western Mont ana, Idaho, no r thern whil e not quite so a ctive, i s still "G ood."
game for every ward" was the slo- over
Utah. and Nevada. The Middle·West a r ea
gan and they were soon provided.
It is believed this donation will
serve two purposes. First it will
remove useless games from circu-
lation and in the second place cre-
ate a more kindly feeling toward
the machines than now exists in
many quarters among supporters
of juvenile institutions.
Superior Leads
Portland Mfrs.
PORTLAND- ManUfacturing of
pin games has taken on the pro-
portion of being a real business
in Portland with the Superior
Amusement company now going
full blast turning out their new
K. O. five foot game.
The machine is a masterpiece
and is the finest ' the firm has
ever built. Speaking of the ma-
chine Joe Hern, manager of the
firm said: "K. O. represents an
accomplish ment in m a nufa cturing.
This game possesses a thrill sec-
ond to none, and into it we have
built the very finest material and
equipment possible."
The firm has its own wood
working shop in connection with
its factory over-looking the Willa-
mette river.
.
~
~
T
f' ..... ffio§tf
, ... .I?.. fFAiR1
L..::::J
April Promiaea to be Beat Month 01 1934 So Far
Ma.p Supplied by BUSINESS BULLETI N Division of LaSalle Extension Universit Y'
pril records of ret ail sales, autom obile
an general manufacturing, steel, railway
equipment, and bui\(\ing activity indicate
better than March recorda. Tho "Very
Good" area in ()ur map at last
d iana, Michigan, and Illinois.
Penn~yl·
vania , Mar ylf\nd, New Jersey, New York,
f
"VIRGIN TERRITORY"·
By EINAR WILSLEV
When travelling in the country
it certainly pays to leave the beat-
First Eskimo-"Goin' south this en path and explore the by-ways
winter, Tallowfingers?"
and back country. Tourists will
Tallowfingers-"Ye-up, I've de- find interesting scenery unspoiled
by road signs, hamburger stands
cided to go down to Iceland."
A Blessed Event for Operators---Three . Twins
-by-
A.B.T.
Autocount
Autowhirl
Autobank
The
World's
Finest
Pin
Tables
For
Choice
Locations
Totals
Each Score
Prints
Complete
Record
of All
Receipts
and
Disburse-
ments
AUTO
WHIRL
Visible Coin
Detectors
Marble Game
Supplies
AUTO
AUTO
COUNT
and aU New England are also nQW in the
"Very Good" area.
Thcl'O has been a slight 1'6cession froll1
"Verv Good" to "Good" in southe r n lI i
"Good" areas are indicated In Nebraska
and Wyoming.
BANK
All
Playing
Fields
Int.er-
changeable
and the like. Sportsmen will find
better hunting and fishing, sales-
men will find friendly buyers who
are ready to listen to their stories
and ready to buy, and coin ma 4
chine operators will find a r eal
virgin territory where they can
place some of their older equip4
ment to good advantage. One
young man who recently started
up in the pin game business, pur 4
chased quite a large number of
games like the Mills Officials,
Broadcasts, and similar games . He
purchases these games a t very
reasona ble prices and had " Virgin
Territory" in mind. He is fond of
the great outdoors and found coin""!-
operated machines his oppor tunity
for combining business with pleas.
ure. He reports placing pin games
in out-of-the-way places where no
one yet played such a device and
the other day told of one Mills Of·
ficial that took in $131.00 in three
weeks with only one-third paid out
for rewards. This operator finds
very little competition in his ter 4
ritory and is giving the location
only 40 per cent commission_ Most
of his eqUipment is operated in
towns of from one to five thou 4
sand population and he does not
mind driving a great many miles
to get to these places because he
finds the location owners very
friendly and honest and his equip-
ment yields good profits. He cov·
ers the territory once every three
weeks and always returns to the
city with a number of heavy
money bags.
Summer is coming and many op-
erators should get into the "wide
open spaces" where opportunity
awaits them.
WRITE FOR FUll DETAILS AND INFORMATION
~.B.T.
PAU:L :LAYMON
Coin Chutes
Padfie CJea8t Bepresentatlve
1318 So. Rope Sa.
Los
IlDgel~
Calif.
l""ist U PQn Them
." Y our Gomes
Fishmouth- "Bumstead had all
epiderma toid growth removed to-
day."
Flatfoot-ttPoor fellow! Was it
serious 1"
Fishmouth - "No-only a lJair ..
cu~"
.
:.Tune,l93-:{
Pi~F~:C~=riryl~I_T_h_e __ T_r_e_n_d __ o_f __ t_h_e __ T_im __ e_s~II
TRADE TOPICS
r--------
Comments on Timely Subjects
-
by
-
P. W. BLACKFORD
Some day some operator is go-
ing to crawl out of the used ma-
,chines haze and fit himself up in
'8. business that will net him a
substantial profit and provide him
with an opportunity to make
more out of his old machines
than he could possibly get by
trading them in.
And that business IS renting out
amusement tables and slQt ma-
chines to private individuals for
parties, social functions, club
gatherings, etc.
The dailies are filled with an-
nouncements of get togethers,
the social page carries a list of
parties, etc. An operator could
get up an attractive circular let-
ter, embellished with a picture of
a machine or two ,and send to
the person in charge of these
functions and offer them some
~""'''
~
___ '-''-''' ___ "_~"_'''_'''''''IIIIfII . . ~_III--",~
.
BUY YOUR
.
World~s
Series 4
~
J
From Kansas' only Exclusive
Jobber.
We are located in the exact ~
~l center of the United States.
1
~
1 ~
~
~
o. b. Wlehlta
M. T. DANIELS
1025-1027 University Ave.
Wichita, Kansas
~1 ...
~-W- __ ""~-""",, __ ,,,,"..A.tfII~IIfI''''IIII- ...
a.;IliI
amusement machines at a nomi-
nal rental fee. His old machines
could be polished up and refin-
ished and used for such rentals.
government reply envelope
could be enclosed so as to make
it as easy as possible for the
person to reply.
During the past SIX months I
have attended a great number of
private parties and social gath-
erings where pin games and slot
machines would provide some-
thing new and different in the
way of entertainment for those
who do not desire to play cards
or dance all evening.
One or two operators in Los
Angeles are making a play for
this business but the field is big
and several dozen could make a
tidy sum out of such rentals.
There are two ways on which
this play could be operated. The
machines could be rented out at
so much per machine per night
or, if the party is a large one,
the operator could make a per-
centage arrangement with the in-
dividual.
Sometime ago THE
REVIEW carried a story on how
several Hollywood celebrities were
using slot machines for such
parties and their percentage off
of the take of the machines in
most 9ases covered the net on
the parties. This was an abso-
lute fact and this could be used
in selling the idea to the l10st or
hostess.
.
End your correspondence to ad-
vertisers by mentioning THE RE-
VIEW.
A
Several AlDplified AutoDlfltie
5e EleetrulDuse Phonograp~s
Cost. New $1,260 Each - Will Sacrifice - Sell in Lot or
Separate - Terms, If Necessary, to Suit
Southern Piano CoDlpany
44 North Raymond Ave.
Page Seventeen
Pasad~na,
Calif.
SEATTLE - Western Distribu-
LaSalle Map of :S~sineSs Conditions' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
tors, Inc., of Seattle, Washington,
found they had a considerable
number of good used pin games on
hand for which there was no mar-
ket. During the past two months
they have destroyed more than fif-
ty games to relieve the congestion
and take them out of circulation,
but hesitated to continue the
slaughter. It was finally decided
to take the matter up with the
Children's Orthopedic Hospital.
It was learned the hospital
would be glad to receive the ma-
chines and the first consignment
was soon made ready and deliv-
ered. Coin chutes were removed
and in their place handy wooden
plungers we re substituted so the
games could be played without
Fir6t Quarter 01 1934 Has Been Moat Encouraginll
'
coins. The cabinets were cleaned M ap Supplied by B USINESS BULLETI N Division of L aSalle Extension UniYersity,
and all working parts put in good
M arch has b een the best mon th since last has extended into Iowa, southern :Minn e-
condition. A number of Seattle summer, and unle ss strikes interfere April s ot a, n or t h ern Il linoi s, and southern 1\1 ic h.
will
be fully as good.
'
igan. 'l'h e Sou thern area has ex tendcfl t o
operators voluntarily contributed
Our "Very Good" areas have broaden ed cent ral and w es tern K entuck y and western
m.achines to swell the list. "A pin until the Northwestern area now extends a nd sou th ern South Carolina. Louisiana.
western Mont ana, Idaho, no r thern whil e not quite so a ctive, i s still "G ood."
game for every ward" was the slo- over
Utah. and Nevada. The Middle·West a r ea
gan and they were soon provided.
It is believed this donation will
serve two purposes. First it will
remove useless games from circu-
lation and in the second place cre-
ate a more kindly feeling toward
the machines than now exists in
many quarters among supporters
of juvenile institutions.
Superior Leads
Portland Mfrs.
PORTLAND- ManUfacturing of
pin games has taken on the pro-
portion of being a real business
in Portland with the Superior
Amusement company now going
full blast turning out their new
K. O. five foot game.
The machine is a masterpiece
and is the finest ' the firm has
ever built. Speaking of the ma-
chine Joe Hern, manager of the
firm said: "K. O. represents an
accomplish ment in m a nufa cturing.
This game possesses a thrill sec-
ond to none, and into it we have
built the very finest material and
equipment possible."
The firm has its own wood
working shop in connection with
its factory over-looking the Willa-
mette river.
.
~
~
T
f' ..... ffio§tf
, ... .I?.. fFAiR1
L..::::J
April Promiaea to be Beat Month 01 1934 So Far
Ma.p Supplied by BUSINESS BULLETI N Division of LaSalle Extension Universit Y'
pril records of ret ail sales, autom obile
an general manufacturing, steel, railway
equipment, and bui\(\ing activity indicate
better than March recorda. Tho "Very
Good" area in ()ur map at last
d iana, Michigan, and Illinois.
Penn~yl·
vania , Mar ylf\nd, New Jersey, New York,
f
"VIRGIN TERRITORY"·
By EINAR WILSLEV
When travelling in the country
it certainly pays to leave the beat-
First Eskimo-"Goin' south this en path and explore the by-ways
winter, Tallowfingers?"
and back country. Tourists will
Tallowfingers-"Ye-up, I've de- find interesting scenery unspoiled
by road signs, hamburger stands
cided to go down to Iceland."
A Blessed Event for Operators---Three . Twins
-by-
A.B.T.
Autocount
Autowhirl
Autobank
The
World's
Finest
Pin
Tables
For
Choice
Locations
Totals
Each Score
Prints
Complete
Record
of All
Receipts
and
Disburse-
ments
AUTO
WHIRL
Visible Coin
Detectors
Marble Game
Supplies
AUTO
AUTO
COUNT
and aU New England are also nQW in the
"Very Good" area.
Thcl'O has been a slight 1'6cession froll1
"Verv Good" to "Good" in southe r n lI i
"Good" areas are indicated In Nebraska
and Wyoming.
BANK
All
Playing
Fields
Int.er-
changeable
and the like. Sportsmen will find
better hunting and fishing, sales-
men will find friendly buyers who
are ready to listen to their stories
and ready to buy, and coin ma 4
chine operators will find a r eal
virgin territory where they can
place some of their older equip4
ment to good advantage. One
young man who recently started
up in the pin game business, pur 4
chased quite a large number of
games like the Mills Officials,
Broadcasts, and similar games . He
purchases these games a t very
reasona ble prices and had " Virgin
Territory" in mind. He is fond of
the great outdoors and found coin""!-
operated machines his oppor tunity
for combining business with pleas.
ure. He reports placing pin games
in out-of-the-way places where no
one yet played such a device and
the other day told of one Mills Of·
ficial that took in $131.00 in three
weeks with only one-third paid out
for rewards. This operator finds
very little competition in his ter 4
ritory and is giving the location
only 40 per cent commission_ Most
of his eqUipment is operated in
towns of from one to five thou 4
sand population and he does not
mind driving a great many miles
to get to these places because he
finds the location owners very
friendly and honest and his equip-
ment yields good profits. He cov·
ers the territory once every three
weeks and always returns to the
city with a number of heavy
money bags.
Summer is coming and many op-
erators should get into the "wide
open spaces" where opportunity
awaits them.
WRITE FOR FUll DETAILS AND INFORMATION
~.B.T.
PAU:L :LAYMON
Coin Chutes
Padfie CJea8t Bepresentatlve
1318 So. Rope Sa.
Los
IlDgel~
Calif.
l""ist U PQn Them
." Y our Gomes
Fishmouth- "Bumstead had all
epiderma toid growth removed to-
day."
Flatfoot-ttPoor fellow! Was it
serious 1"
Fishmouth - "No-only a lJair ..
cu~"
.
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