Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

COIN MACHINE REVIEW
A p ril 1935
N. Y. Columnist, Coast Vis ito r,
Observes Enthusiasm Over Games
T his department is intended as a
serv ice t o REV IEW readers f o r the
dissemination of interesting inform a-
tion. Requests for names and ad-
dresses of manufacturers are referred
immediately to RE VI EW a dvertisers
free of charge. Ad dress of the w riter
of any communication listed below
will be furnished up on request.
Dear ir:
No doubt the attached letter is self-ex-
planatory. You have our permission to hand
copie of this information and our require-
ment to any other factories who think
they can fill our requirement. In addition
to being in the market for large quantities
of new cales, we will al 0 trade for any
good u ed miniature cale.
- An Arkan as City, Kansas, reader.
Gentlemen:
I have a small route of peanut and candy
vending machines and am anxious to in-
crea e my number. Will you please send
me any literature or information you may
have in regard to good machines now on
the market.
- A Merced, Cal., sub criber.
Dear ir:
WiU you please give the enclo ed de-
po it to any of your advertiser who can
upply me with non·chip marbles. ize for
large Rebound. Want 90 one-color and
10 contrasting. I don't see any advertised
in the la t issue of fHE REVIEW.
-A Kan as City, Kan as, subscriber.
HOLLYWOOD- Louis obol, Broadway
columni t who is on a vi it to the Pacific
Coast for a whirl at film work, is an en-
thu ia tic ob erver of the prominent place
which automatic amu ement device hold
in the amu ement world.
obol i now topping at the Beverly-
Wilshire Hotel in thi "pin game capital
of the We t," taking a uite of even
rooms to accommodate himself and his
party.
In his "The Voice of Broadway" column
in The New York Evening Journal, he
recently wrote of pin games and electric
crane machines as follows:
"Broadway is still game·mad . . . Any
hour of the day or night-even in the
hours butting into dawn- you'll find men
and women at the machines ending little
balls currying into the pocket .. . The
machine with the trick devi ce which
move a ball automatically from one pocket
to another if you hit the right combination
seem to be the mo t popular . . . Even
the night clubs have in taIled them-the e
mechanical outgrowths of the ancient game
of bagatelle • . . One restaurant, in fact,
ha several dozen lined up against it
long bar . • . Popular too, are tbose rna·
chine with the traveling cranes into which
you insert a nickel and try to pick up a
camera or a lighter or a vanity case . . .
Every club seems to have these machines,
too, and most of the drug stores."
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Laymon Reports Trend
Toward Better Games
LO ANGELES-The current trend in
public amusement is toward better quality
games, according to Paul A. Laymon, Los
Angeles joh~er and distributor for the A.
B. T. Manufacturing Company.
Laymon declare that this public atti ·
tude is reflected in operators' increased or-
der for more mechanically efficient and
well de igned table games, such as A.B.T.'5
new Autodart.
"The ticket machine have opened up a
merchandi ing feature that is not availahle
in ordinary pin games," Laymon declares.
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The MITY-MITE
Gentlemen:
I would like to know where I can pur-
cha e a few u ed pistachio nut macbines
(Ie) and also where I can get the be t
inexpensive nuts for the machine.
-A Pacific Beach, Calif., subscriber.
Size:
11 ~" x 6 %,"
Gentlemen:
For some years we have been building
and testing an automatic soft drink dis·
pen er. A little over a year ago our last
model was completed and placed on the
ground floor of our leading departme . t
store here in Vancouver, B. C.
Today we have better than a year's tc~ t
behind us. The re ult of that test, which
can readily be verified, is as follow : Tl-e
unit operated consistently for 300 days,
th total number of sales amounted to 116,-
672, which averages 386 drinks per day.
High total for anyone weeek wa 4056 and
low lotal for anyone week wa 1076. We
will be glad to supply further particulars
to anyone intere ted. We would naturally
like to get in touch with a manufacturer
in the U .. A. and would particularly ap·
preciate any information as to what prog·
re s, if any, i being made with similar
equipment in the United tates.
-A Vancouver, B. C., reader.
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W olcher Hits Natural
For His Export Trade
A FRA CISCO-Constantly increas-
ing export business of the Advance Auto-
matic ales Company of San Francisco and
the Western Di tributors, Inc., of eattle
has been bringing them a flock of cable or·
ders, so Lou Wolcher, president of Au-
tomatic Sales, hit upon an idea for a cable
address that was accepted by the telegraph
companies. Foreign customers now reach
them by cabling "Pingame, U .. A."
R. H. OSBRINK MFG. COMPANY
Aluminum Foundry and Machine Shop
1412 East 62nd St.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Phone: LAfayette 2883
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