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Fred
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McClellan
Heads Long
Pacific Uses
Beach Firm
President of Pamco A. B. T. Chutes
Mr. Fred McClellan, president of that time. He had hardly been in pro-
P AMCO., is a well known western duction until he realized that the
businessman. He was formerly in arrangement to manufacture "CON-
the automobile business and was TACT" was inadequate, so he ar-
one of the largest distributors of ranged for space and manufactur-
ing facilities in one of the largest
pleasure and commercial cars on the
mill constructed buildings in the
Pacific Coast. A few years ago he
country. Almost overnight a new
sensed that there might be a slu,m p
manufacturing concern was born in
in the automobile business and as
the Chicago era. It since has been
he had an offer to sell his prosper-
one of the busiest plants in the
ous agency he disposed of it.
city.
Not content with enjoying the
leisure that he had come into l.\4:r.
Mr. McClellan is one of those con-
McClellan sought another field for , genial happy fellows who despite his
his activities. He , began the opera-
succesS likes to be known as Fred
tion of amusement games and built
to the boys and disclaims any mo're
up a very successful business on the
~han his rightful share in his suc-
Pacific Coast with Los Angeles as
cess. He says that without the co-
his headquarters. As a result of operation of allied trades in giving
his experience in operating, having him quality products and placing
studied the likes of the public he
their resources at his command lJ.e
decided to produce machines and
could not have produced this splen-
brought out a splendid game in did game. The co-operation ex"
"Masterpiece" which had a wide
tended the sale of the machine by
jobbers and operators, he says, has
sale in the western territory. This
was some three years ago. "Master- had a great deal to do with the
piece" was followed by "Metropoli- prosperity of his company. He told
t an." Then came the radical new THE PACIFIC COIN MACHINE
idea in playing operations employ- REVIEW, however, that operators
ing two new features, the ejector often remind him that it was the
and the bell. These two items game and that any time a manufac-
proved to be very popular and made turer has a game that the public
" CONTACT" sensational on the coast plays he need not worry about its
Due to differences in shipping costs sale. Mr. McClellan acknowledges
and time it was difficult to supply that fact, but says that it was only
t he demand in the Middle West and offered after careful experimentation
the East. Mr. McClellan went to and tests On location- a policy he has
Chicago and surveyed the field early religiously followed.
in the year arranging for the pro-
In fact, in producing the new
duction of his machines.
"MAJOR LEAGUE" baseball game,
Mr. McClellan told THE PACI- more than 100 machines were made
FIC COIN MACHINE REVIEW that and tried on location several months
he had only had in mind l'upplying before it was definitely decided to go
the normal demand as he saw it at ahead with the production.
MAJOR
LEAGUE
Consensus of Opinion
of All Los Angeles
Operators
"The Greatest
'. Money
iifCrabber Ever
Introduced
NOW
MECHANIC-
ALLY
PERFECT
Price
'66
f. o. b.
Los Angeles
Quantity Price
on Request
Sol Gottlieb Company
JOBBERS EXCLUSIVELY
Distributor of D. Gottlieb Co. Products
1347 W. WASHINGTON BLVD.
LOS ANGELES
Phone PRospect 3351
The A. B. T . Mfg. Co., upon the
appearance three or more y,ears ago,
of mech,3.nically operated games,
were quick to see the need of effi-
cient cheat-proof coin chutes for this
purpose. Their experts went to work
on the proposition and soon devel-
oped a finished chute.
In many respects A. B. T. Coin
Chutes are the standard of perf,ec-
tion for the industry, being used on
hundreds of thousands of machines.
The Super Triple Tumbler Chutes as
used on Major League, repr,e sent
every tried and proven feature that
goes to make a perfect mechanism.
Too much importance cannot be at-
tached to coin chutes because they
are really the heart of the machine.
A. B. T. coin chutes are made to
withstand the hardest kind of use
with practically no chance of getting
out of order. These chutes ar,e equip-
ped with the patented triple tum·
bIer, entirely preventing the use of
keyed slugs. The rachet on the slide
h3.s been incorporated in all chutes.
A Tungsten Manganese steel magnet
is employed in the chutes to reject
steel and iron slugs and washers. An
improved flap prevents clogging anf1
all wedging of thin coins- a very im-
portant feature to keep machines in
working order.
The coin hole can be adapted for
penny, nickel, dime or quarter ; also
for 'most foreign coins. The A. B. T .
chute reaches a maximum stroke of
one and one-sixteenth inches instead
of' the half inch stroke usually found
in ordinary chutes. Relatively few
parts are used in A . B. T. coin
chutes, and simpliCity and precision
workmanship 'a re developed to the
utmost.
Joe Richarme, pictured above, is
the guiding head of the Long Beach
Coin Machine Exchange and in the
short time he has been open has
been successful in corraling most of
the coin machine business in the
beach city.
Joe always has the latest in good
pin games on his showroom floor and
is always ready to give the featured
spot to a product of the Pacific
Amusement Mfg. Co.
Right now
MAJOR LEAGUE is getting all the
play in Long Beach and Joe Ric-
harme is getting all the business
supplying the demands of the oper-
ators.
Thanks Mr. MacDougall
That was a nice order you sent us. You
may rest assured we will do our bit to
uphold the high standard of quality
you demand in the
MAJOR
LEAGUE
-a game worthy of the tremendous
applause it has received from the
operator.
R. H. Osbrink Mfg. Co.
1412 East 62nd Street
LA1.2883
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