Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

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By WILL MAINE
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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
BOSTON.-This is Boston's first birth"
day in these pages. It was just one year
ago this issue that we came into the
fold of the REVIEW. It has been a good
year in the closer acquaintance these
pages have offered us with the coun-
try's coin machine activities and espe-
cially those of the West Coast. After
all, we have a common bond as the
Eastern and Western extremes of the
United States and guardians of the
Atlantic · and Pacific shores. With this
thought in mind Boston dealers and
operators reach out the fraternizing
handclasp in appreciation of their closer
association with all concerned in these
pages.
The winter months are trying ones for
the New England operator for from the
first of November until the middle of
the present month these operators must
service locations in frigid temperatures
and lots of snow. Despite the fact that
at this writing Boston is in the grip of a
Northeast blizzard blown from the broad
Atlantic stretches, operators and job-
bers are carrying on uninterrupted and
are mOJ;{}than busy.
Operators of cigarette vendors were
set all a-jitter for a few brief moments
when a local state representative at-
tempted to introduce a bill into the
legislature to prohibit use of cigarette
machines within the corporate city lim-
its of Boston. The reaction was so strong
that the bil!" was quickly quashed in its
earliest stages.
Four hundred locations housing mer-
chandising machines means a lot of
labor in servicing; but that is the exact
number of candy and nut vendors that
the energetic Isadore Spector and his
partner Rudy Blum have in active op-
eration at this writing. Nine months ago
neither of the boys owned a single
machine, and going from scratch to 400
in less than a year's time is certainly a
laudable achievement, more notable, for
but few machines are in what would be
called poor paying spots. Their head-
quatl'ers are on Washington Street
three of · -four doors away from Dave
Bond's Boston headquarters for Snacks
Vendors, so it's not hard to guess what
kind of machines the boys are operat-
ing. All machines are located within
the metropolitan district of Greater
Boston, and when we called to see
these two busy gentlemen who operate
under the name of the Hub Vending
Company we saw less than a dozen of
the machines in the shop for a going-
over and only two or three in need of
repairs caused by petty looters, glass
breakers, strong armed ratchet-twisters
or whatnot. Spector told us his only
losses in merchandise and damages
occurred in factory locations where un-
scrupulous workers with handy access
to tools practised the ancient art of
safe cracking or jimmying, in an un-
watched moment when they decided to
indulge in sweet-meats "for free."
Ben L. Kulick , general salesmanager
for the Daval Mfg. Co. of Chicago made
a flying trip to his old stomping
grounds in Boston, where he was for-
merly associated with the Supreme
Vending Co., distributors of Wurlitzer
Products. In the brief four-hour visit be-
tween landing and taking off for Chi-
cago again at the Boston Harbor air-
port he arranged with his whilom asso-
ciate, Ben Palastrant, for the sale of
100 of the new improved model U-Pop-It
popcorn machines.
From all reports Al Sharenow, large-
scale ope rater of cigarette vendors, is
enjoying near-record sales throughout
the northeastern part of Massachusetts.
Incidentally it is rumored that Share-
now's quick action in putting the dam-
per on the proposed interference of
ciggie vending sales by legislation was
responsible for the squashing of the
action.
Louis and Barney Blatt, distributors
of Seeburg phonographs in Boston are
tickled over the manner in which opera-
tors have shown their enthusiasm in
the new models by swamping them
with orders for spring delivery.
Ben D. Palastrant is still smiling at
the Supreme Vending Co. stand on
Washington Street, Boston. Always cor-
dial and agreeable, Ben says, "The door
is always open, and operators are wel-
come to relax in my easy chairs, buy-
or-no-buy; the boys of the trade are
invited to visit my comfortable quarters
and exchange views, opinions and the
pros and cons of the current trade
happenings." Those are his very words,
despite one of the numerous new signs
which says, "Ask me , but don't quote
me."
•
"Don't you hate the way this wind
blows, Phyllis?"
"No, I'm not bowlegged."
for
West Coast Operators
THERE is no business recession-no income slumps
for the West Coast operator of "Columbus" Mer-
chandise Vendors.
The beauty and attractiveness of the porcelain
and baked enamel finishes combined with the
tempting displ~y of the merchandise in sparkling
clear glass globes produces a combination of sales-
getting attractiveness that pulls the profits. The
many easy-to-service features reduces servicing
time to a minimum and makes possible larger
routes.
Start RIGHT NOW . . . pep up your route by
standardizing with "Columbus" Vendors for de-
pendable year-'round profits.
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W rite f or F r ee Information
VIKING SPECIALTY CO_
530 Golden Gate Ave.
San Frandsco
WILL P. CANAAN CO.
1347 W. Washinqton Blvd.
Los Anqeles
Columbus Vendors