Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

slsting that it was unbecoming to the dig-
buy the drinks being only a little joke.
ii you don't want to land where the cor-
nity of the organization for the president
Promptly at 8 o'clock Dutch lunch was
respondent landed, is in throwing your
to cast a deciding vote while straddling a
served, and quantities of food made it a
weight from side to side.
bar, holding one glass of beer in his hand
feast rather than a lunch. Moving about
Fortunately, one does not encounter that
continualJy were several Negro waiters
and another half a dozen under h is belt.
difficulty when hauling the loaded plat-
Niemackl said something about dignity
forms. If goods are to remain on the
bearing huge pitchers of cold beer and
already having been lost when Shannon
floor but a short time it is not removed
seeing t9 it that alJ glasses were kept full.
from the platforms, which take up no
Impromptu speeches by H. H. Cruse,
was admitted; then , everybody was talk-
ing.
extra space in the warehouse department.
William Peacock, A. H. Shannon, H. H.
Wilslev estimates that JOO tons of mer-
Vice-President Fred McClure eased to-
Horton, and others, were well received.
chandise can be handled daily "with the
ward the front, a gleam of anticipation in
Then the question arose as to attendance
greatest of ease," and adds that frequently
of ladies at the next social meeting. The
his eye. At last a chance to officiate.
he has done just that.
matter was voted on after a round table
His vote would be cast from the floor, and
Business is so good in the Wurlitzer
discussion failed to get a decision. On
not from any of the numerous bars swing-
phonograph line at the E. T. Mape Co.
first balJot alJ members voted-some of
ing hither and yon about the r~om. The
that it has become necessary to expand
them twice---against bringing their wives.
members, guessing Fred's intention, grew
the offices in order to serve the public
A second balJot ·on "s9meone better.
--or his bar-to his vice-president so that
someone not a wile, no women at all"
Stpries "of Cqpehart's new Orchestrope
ended in a three-way tie.
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.' the alJ-important deciding vote might b e
with its "no-stooping, thousand dolJar
President W. C. Atkins was called upon
cast? It was a · dramatic moment. Then
tone, combined program and multi-selec-
to break • the deadlock. He refused, in-
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tor " seeped into Marysville this month and
Eldon Ramsey, local music operator and
a lad from Missouri, decided to come to
San Francisco to see for ·himself. They
app"arently rang true for Eldon saw, heard,
and bought · .
Purc hasing for Honolulu's Iwao Fukuoka
i:;;o. is done by Miss C. Fukuoka, charm-
ing daughter of the owner. While in
San Francisco on business this month she
was snapped by a snooping cameraman
while on board ship with Fumitaka Ko-
noye, son of Tokio's Premier, with whom ·.
• ,,,. she· did the town. Viking Specialty Co.
;_; shlpped her an order of vending machines
the .Jast · of the month.
The coin machine, business has beeit
combined with a variety of ventures but
never the cookie business until the ap- •
pearance of · Cedric Ayers. He recently
supplemented his stock with ten new
Roclc-Olas. He says cookies and Rock-
Olas are a "natural."
California is losing Fred Hutchinson to
Arizona this _month. Fred has been an
operator of games, phonographs, and slot
machines in • Santa Rosa for fiv·e years .
He plans lo take his entire equipment
with him and to continue the.re as an
operator. The REVIEW and his friends
wish him luck in his new location.
Frank Vitalli looks very smart dressed
up in his overalJs squeezing oranges in
Healdsburg. He has this month purchased
an orange stand in the city and plans to
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Harris C:ounly (Texas)
Phonoqraph Operators
Association
President- W. C. ATKINS: Vice-President-
FRED McCLURE: Executive Secretary-W. A.
NIEMACKL: Treasurer- LESTER HEARN.
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By JOHN G. WRIGHT
. With thirty musicmen and their friends
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oi old timers who had known Hearn for
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