Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1936 March - Page 77
NO. DIVISION MEETS
•
B ay Reg i o n mus ic ops sho w
progress w i th A ssoci a tion .
OAKLAND, Calif.-Members of the Cali·
forn ia Music Operators' Association (North.
ern Division) held an enthusiastic meeting
here February 12th, attended by a large
number of phonograph operators, sales rep·
resentatives and others interested in the
promotion of higher standards of operating.
Several rumors were reported concerning
a proposed $200 annual cabaret license for
each phonograph location in Oakland and
had some of the operators worried for a
time, but Secretary Alfred Lamb sent word
to THE REVIEW that this situation is now
temporarily cleared up .
MODERN HEADQUARTERS
o
T. M. Newman of San Fran.
CISCO operating Rock · O l a pho n os.
o
M USIC men in San Francisco readily
will recognize the setting for the above
photograph showing Theodore M. Newman,
well known Coast phonograph man, in the
luxuriously·fitted display rooms of the
Newman Music Co., San Francisco.
Newman ' is a strong booster for the
Rock·Ola Multi·Selector, models of which
are shown on display, and he "has handled
the Rock·Ola line of phonographs ex·
dusively from the time they were first
introduced.
Distribution of the Rock·Ola Multi·
Selectors on the Coast is in the capable
hands of the National Amusement Co. in
Los Angeles. Genial Jack McClelland of
National reports an ever·increasing demand
for all Rock·OIa models and says his firm
has orders for more Multi·Selectors than
they can get from the factory. Although
McClelland is in a particularly good posi·
tion to watch it, he is not the only one who
has noticed the progress made by the
Rock·OIa Multi·Selector through the West
and Northwest.
JACK KAPP DUE
•
D ecea presi d en t on C oast
d uri n g ear l y p a r t of March.
Arizona Op Comes
In with a Nifty
B EST story of the
cerns an Arizona
month con·
phonograph
operator, name available on reo
quest, who looked over the record
rev iews i n TH E REVI EW and
then mislaid h i s copy of the
magazi ne.
Making up an o r der I ist from
memory, he wrote in to one of
the Los Angeles record houses
for the d iscs he wanted . At the
top of the list was:
" Supper for One, Jenkins."
ho pe
to
DALLAS, Tex. - With 19 of the 29
phonograph operators in Dallas now memo
bers of the Dallas Music Operators' Asso·
ciation and the other 10 expected to join
shortly, the organization has taken steps to
put into effect a top commission rate of
33% per cent.
Appointment of a salaried business man·
ager to co nduct the association's affairs and
adjust problems of operators and locations
is being considered. Harry Turner is tern·
porary . chairman and Roy Jones is secre·
tary.
( SOUTHERN DIVIlSION )
HARRY WINSLOW
Secretary. Trea3urer
F. B. ROBINSON
1547 W. 70th Street
Los Angeles, California
Telephone PLeasant 6098
2942 S. Normandie Ave.
Los Angeles. California
Telephone ROchester 2317
Presi.dent
Address all communications to the
CALIFORNIA MUSIC OPERATORS' ASSOCIATION
2942 S. Normandie Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. Telephone ROchester 2317
MEETING OF MARCH 2
NEW ENGLAND BIZ
BRICKYARD
1 9 3 6
•
D allas m u s ic o ps
eff ect 33 Y3 p et. r ate.
California Music Operators' Ass'n
LOS ANGELES.- Phonograph operators
Hello boys and girls. Here we are back
on the old scandal sheet again. Before
here anticipated an opportunity to visit
with Jack Kapp, president of Decca Rec· · anything more is said or done we want to
thank each and everyone of you for your
ords, . who was expected to arrive on the
attendance at the meetings. Each meeting
Coast early in March for a brief stay.
is larger in attendance than the one pre·
Kapp was to confer with Joe Perry,
ceding. It shows one outstanding feature,
Decca recording head at Hollywood and
we are getting real support and cooperation
with Bert Annear of the Los Angeles office
from all the boys. As has been said many
prior to heading for San Francisco to talk
times, and will possibly be repeated many
over sales program with L. C. Gilman, in
more times, it · takes this attendance and
,c harge of Decca sales in the West.
cooperation to really make our association
successful. Of course it made Mr. Black·
ford mad when the meeting was closed at
least an hour earlier than usual. Mac
•
Barney Bla tt o r d ers Seeburg
Mohr said he liked long meetings too.
·Ii nes on trip f r om Boston .
I'm happy to report that the men from
CHICAGO. - With conditions in New
England favorable, Barney Blatt recently San Diego were represented at the meeting
by Mr. C. T. Presher and Mr. Frank Kirk
was here from his headquarters in Boston
to place a large order wi th the J. P. See· who joined our association and took appli·
cation blanks with them, assuring us there
burg Corp. Blatt is New England represen.
tative for the firm and reported a steady would be more applications coming. We
were gratified to learn that the boys are
demand for the various new Seeburg mod·
quite well organized in the southern city .
,els in phonographs and other equipment.
and by joining the association they com:
plete their gentleman's agreement among
WRO ~G
themselves and at the same time get the
full cooperation of the association local~y,
LOS ANGELES.-Bill SImmons, Wur·
1itzer factory representative, says that item
Onother man from afar is none ~the~
about him in "He Used To Be" in last
tha n Arthur C. Woodward from Visalia,
month's REVIEW was wrong; he never ran
Calif. He is now one of us and reports
a brickyard in Decatur, Ill. He ran a
that there will be others from his northern
brickyard in Urbana, Ill.
shores who will no doubt become members,
M ARCH ,
PERCENTAGE CUT
COIN
either of the northern or southern division
of the association. We all know of J . C.
Dorser, of The Dorser Music Co., one of
the oldest operators in the field ... a man
we are proud to have as a full fledged
member. I would like to make it known
at this time that some of the skeptics
should put two and two together and real·
ize we can't be such a bad organization
when we have such operators as Mr. Dorser,
Sunset Music and others who have been
operating for years and know all the
angles, and yet they join our policies and
say we are doing a fine job.
We want it known that this in no way
is an exclusive organization and that we
welcome. all operators to our meetings,
whether they are members or not. We
want them to meet with us and come to
know our aims and ambitions, ask ques·
tions and take an active interest. After
all, all we want to accomplish is better
operating conditions.
I'm sure there wasn't a man present at
the last meeting who would have liked to
have missed any part of it. We always
have plenty of interesting business on hand.
We are going to try and have a repre·
sentation from the northern division at
our April meeting which will be held
April 6 at Paulais, at 3033 W. 7th St.,
Los Angeles. DON'T FORGET THE
MEETING PLACE! Paulais, 3033 W. 7th
Street.
MACHINE
REVIE W
•
77
•
B ay Reg i o n mus ic ops sho w
progress w i th A ssoci a tion .
OAKLAND, Calif.-Members of the Cali·
forn ia Music Operators' Association (North.
ern Division) held an enthusiastic meeting
here February 12th, attended by a large
number of phonograph operators, sales rep·
resentatives and others interested in the
promotion of higher standards of operating.
Several rumors were reported concerning
a proposed $200 annual cabaret license for
each phonograph location in Oakland and
had some of the operators worried for a
time, but Secretary Alfred Lamb sent word
to THE REVIEW that this situation is now
temporarily cleared up .
MODERN HEADQUARTERS
o
T. M. Newman of San Fran.
CISCO operating Rock · O l a pho n os.
o
M USIC men in San Francisco readily
will recognize the setting for the above
photograph showing Theodore M. Newman,
well known Coast phonograph man, in the
luxuriously·fitted display rooms of the
Newman Music Co., San Francisco.
Newman ' is a strong booster for the
Rock·Ola Multi·Selector, models of which
are shown on display, and he "has handled
the Rock·Ola line of phonographs ex·
dusively from the time they were first
introduced.
Distribution of the Rock·Ola Multi·
Selectors on the Coast is in the capable
hands of the National Amusement Co. in
Los Angeles. Genial Jack McClelland of
National reports an ever·increasing demand
for all Rock·OIa models and says his firm
has orders for more Multi·Selectors than
they can get from the factory. Although
McClelland is in a particularly good posi·
tion to watch it, he is not the only one who
has noticed the progress made by the
Rock·OIa Multi·Selector through the West
and Northwest.
JACK KAPP DUE
•
D ecea presi d en t on C oast
d uri n g ear l y p a r t of March.
Arizona Op Comes
In with a Nifty
B EST story of the
cerns an Arizona
month con·
phonograph
operator, name available on reo
quest, who looked over the record
rev iews i n TH E REVI EW and
then mislaid h i s copy of the
magazi ne.
Making up an o r der I ist from
memory, he wrote in to one of
the Los Angeles record houses
for the d iscs he wanted . At the
top of the list was:
" Supper for One, Jenkins."
ho pe
to
DALLAS, Tex. - With 19 of the 29
phonograph operators in Dallas now memo
bers of the Dallas Music Operators' Asso·
ciation and the other 10 expected to join
shortly, the organization has taken steps to
put into effect a top commission rate of
33% per cent.
Appointment of a salaried business man·
ager to co nduct the association's affairs and
adjust problems of operators and locations
is being considered. Harry Turner is tern·
porary . chairman and Roy Jones is secre·
tary.
( SOUTHERN DIVIlSION )
HARRY WINSLOW
Secretary. Trea3urer
F. B. ROBINSON
1547 W. 70th Street
Los Angeles, California
Telephone PLeasant 6098
2942 S. Normandie Ave.
Los Angeles. California
Telephone ROchester 2317
Presi.dent
Address all communications to the
CALIFORNIA MUSIC OPERATORS' ASSOCIATION
2942 S. Normandie Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. Telephone ROchester 2317
MEETING OF MARCH 2
NEW ENGLAND BIZ
BRICKYARD
1 9 3 6
•
D allas m u s ic o ps
eff ect 33 Y3 p et. r ate.
California Music Operators' Ass'n
LOS ANGELES.- Phonograph operators
Hello boys and girls. Here we are back
on the old scandal sheet again. Before
here anticipated an opportunity to visit
with Jack Kapp, president of Decca Rec· · anything more is said or done we want to
thank each and everyone of you for your
ords, . who was expected to arrive on the
attendance at the meetings. Each meeting
Coast early in March for a brief stay.
is larger in attendance than the one pre·
Kapp was to confer with Joe Perry,
ceding. It shows one outstanding feature,
Decca recording head at Hollywood and
we are getting real support and cooperation
with Bert Annear of the Los Angeles office
from all the boys. As has been said many
prior to heading for San Francisco to talk
times, and will possibly be repeated many
over sales program with L. C. Gilman, in
more times, it · takes this attendance and
,c harge of Decca sales in the West.
cooperation to really make our association
successful. Of course it made Mr. Black·
ford mad when the meeting was closed at
least an hour earlier than usual. Mac
•
Barney Bla tt o r d ers Seeburg
Mohr said he liked long meetings too.
·Ii nes on trip f r om Boston .
I'm happy to report that the men from
CHICAGO. - With conditions in New
England favorable, Barney Blatt recently San Diego were represented at the meeting
by Mr. C. T. Presher and Mr. Frank Kirk
was here from his headquarters in Boston
to place a large order wi th the J. P. See· who joined our association and took appli·
cation blanks with them, assuring us there
burg Corp. Blatt is New England represen.
tative for the firm and reported a steady would be more applications coming. We
were gratified to learn that the boys are
demand for the various new Seeburg mod·
quite well organized in the southern city .
,els in phonographs and other equipment.
and by joining the association they com:
plete their gentleman's agreement among
WRO ~G
themselves and at the same time get the
full cooperation of the association local~y,
LOS ANGELES.-Bill SImmons, Wur·
1itzer factory representative, says that item
Onother man from afar is none ~the~
about him in "He Used To Be" in last
tha n Arthur C. Woodward from Visalia,
month's REVIEW was wrong; he never ran
Calif. He is now one of us and reports
a brickyard in Decatur, Ill. He ran a
that there will be others from his northern
brickyard in Urbana, Ill.
shores who will no doubt become members,
M ARCH ,
PERCENTAGE CUT
COIN
either of the northern or southern division
of the association. We all know of J . C.
Dorser, of The Dorser Music Co., one of
the oldest operators in the field ... a man
we are proud to have as a full fledged
member. I would like to make it known
at this time that some of the skeptics
should put two and two together and real·
ize we can't be such a bad organization
when we have such operators as Mr. Dorser,
Sunset Music and others who have been
operating for years and know all the
angles, and yet they join our policies and
say we are doing a fine job.
We want it known that this in no way
is an exclusive organization and that we
welcome. all operators to our meetings,
whether they are members or not. We
want them to meet with us and come to
know our aims and ambitions, ask ques·
tions and take an active interest. After
all, all we want to accomplish is better
operating conditions.
I'm sure there wasn't a man present at
the last meeting who would have liked to
have missed any part of it. We always
have plenty of interesting business on hand.
We are going to try and have a repre·
sentation from the northern division at
our April meeting which will be held
April 6 at Paulais, at 3033 W. 7th St.,
Los Angeles. DON'T FORGET THE
MEETING PLACE! Paulais, 3033 W. 7th
Street.
MACHINE
REVIE W
•
77
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