Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

HOUSTON OPERATORS
a ll h ad a li ne time a t the
Texas . State Hotel in the ir
own c ity, October 14. when
Harry Droll inger. Wurlitzer-Simplex factory representative, s taged a
banquet in celebration of A. H. Shannon's taking on the Wurlitze r-
CAPEHART IN TEXAS
l 1 • Wurlitzer associa te s atte d oper-
ator mee ting in Dallas.
DALLAS.-Flying from New York with
Joe Darwin, Wurlitzer-Simplex representa-
tive, Irving Sommer of Modern Vending
Co., New York City, and Bill Landsheft,
Wurlitzer advertising counselor, Homer E.
Capehart, Wurlitzer vice-president, laid
Simplex line of automatic phonographs for him. Operators prese nt
s howed their appreciation by orde ring two carloads of machine s from
Shannon. At the e nd of the table are G e orge Wrenn, who travels
for Drollinger in Texas, Shannon (center), and Drollinge r (r ight).
seige of Texas at a meeting of th e Texas
Coin Machine Operators ' Assn., held at the
Jefferson Hotel, October 11.
Arriving three hours behind schedule be-
cause of motor troub le be low Washington
which forced the party to taxi back to New
York to take another plane, the group was
met on arriva l by Harry Drollinger, Texas
Wurlitzer representative, and Bob Bleck-
man , Chicago Wurlitzer man. Drollinger
immediately took them to his hom e for a
· few hours ' sleep, after which they met
other Wurlitzer representatives.
Saturday afternoon saw the entire party-
at the Texas-Ok lahoma football game, fol-
lowed by a Southern chicken dinner at
Dro ll inger's and topped off bv a trip to
Fort Worth as guests of Cy Lynch of Elec-
tro-Ba ll Co. at the Casa Manana, tempor-
ary home of Sally Rand , Paul Whiteman,
and a burro-driven covered wagon which
Capehart pi loted around the grounds.
Capehart gave one of his usua l inspira-
tional talks at the annual meeting of the
Association on Sunday, and all enjoyed the
ba nquet which followed. In leaving the
party declared the meeting a big success
and said they hoped to be back next year.
WHAT IS IT?
• Mohr Brothe rs handling new
Rube Gross n ov e lty game.
MARKSMAN INVADES WEST
- He re is a sce ne in a busy Los Angeles
r~rug s t'?re where crow?s flock daily to
try their marks manship on the new
PAMCO electric-ray targe t machine, "Marksman. " Herb McCle llan. Pacific Coast manager for
Pamco, points out the s implicity of ins talling .. Marksman" even in crowded locations like this .
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LOS ANGELES.- Here·s what the trade
has been waiting for- a novelty 10-ball pin
table, made by Rube Gross and Co. of Seat-
tle. makers of the earlier hit-game, Torpedo .
The information was revea led by Mac Mohr
of Mohr Brothers who recently flew to
and from Seattle, after receiving a sample
game, in order to secure distribution rights
for Ca lifornia and in order to see that Cali-
fornia operators got th e first chance at in-
sta ll ations .
Refusing to reveal the name, Mohr sim-
ply declared that "This is to be known as
the Mystery Game." He also declared that
it was imoossible to describe the action of
the game in brief form, since the release
of a ball produces all sorts of action-
underground travel, other balls in motion ,.
and what-not. Co ll apsible pins , he ad-
mitted, provided one feature. The fact
that there can be no lost balls, he added ,
makes it a game players will like.
A few operators who have already seen
it declare that they also are at a loss for
words to describe it, according to Mohr,
but they are most enthusiastic over its possi-
bi lities.
In any event, the game is now on display-
in the showrooms of the Mohr Brothers,
8nd operators are invited to drop in and
see it.
NOVEMBER ,
1936
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