Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

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COIN
:MACHINE
REVIEW
Gene Figone who drove a Crager Spec-
ial. Sports writers stated that every
well-known auto racer in this section
was entered.
Not content with owning a race track,
Lou has also purchased the eat and
drink concession at the Calistoga Fair
to be held over the Fourth of July week-
end. Detail work for this event has been
placed in the hands of Charlie Camp,
well-known fair figure in the Bay dis-
trict. Lou and Heine Grusenmeyer are
withholding from their fans until the
last minute the news of whether or not
they will personally be selling hot dogs
and ice cream.
The OK Novelty Company held its
eleventh birthday party this month at
the Sir Francis Drake Hotel with eleven
couples in attendance. Owners Al Ar-
mos and Leo Gerckens planned it as a
good ·old get-together of all members
of the sales force and their wives.
J. S. Gilder of San Jose has been act-
ing as office manager for the local Rock-
Ola plant during the absence of Clar-
ence McClelland. So successful is he
that the Rock-Ola company has trans-
ferred him to the Middle West where
he will be field representative. Jack
Nelson of the headquarters office of
Rock-Ola has been in San Francisco
during the past week handling some de-
tails for the local office.
Florence Fletcher is the new book-
keeper-stenographer at the Morrie Pol-
lard office. Morrie has one of the Mills
Novelty five cent newsreel machines
out on location and it's proving to be
a honey for taking in the cash.
Anne Mandel is hobbling about these
days, the victim of ·a n infected foot joint.
She and her friends on the Row hope
that the operation she had performed
the past week will fix up the matter so
that she can again resume her role of
"twinkle toes."
Mrs. Felice Church has been given a
new title at the E. T. Mape Company.
She is now Manager-in-charge-of-oper-
ators. Vance and Mrs. Mape leave on
the fifteenth of June for a three weeks'
trip to Alaska. Ed, meanwhile, flutters
between his ranch in the San Joaquin
Valley and the San Francisco office.
Joseph Baker, president of the local
Automatic Music Merchandising Asso-
ciation Inc., reports rapid progress in
the unifying of the Northern California
section. More than twenty-five new
members have been taken in during
May. Messrs. Kelly from Washington
and Smith from Chicago have been
spending considerable time in town this
month with Meyer L. Lewis, West Coast
A. F. of L. chief. The federal charter of
the Oakland chapter of California Music
Operators Association was cancelled,
and the Oakland boys are agitating for
a separate chapter of the Automatic
Music Merchandising Association Inc.
which is affiliated with the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Baker
states that at the present time Lewis and
his colleagues consider this inadvisable
from an economy standpoint for it would
require new offices and a separate office
staff.
To date San Francisco operators have
signed up 100% . Fresno, formerly a
strong-hold for the CMOA, has come
through 70% . The main ·activity of the
new Association at present is the setting
up of standard commissions for each
type of phonograph. Tavern owners who
formerly received as high as 60% of the
take will now be paid uniformly. Baker
admits that he expects a fuss when
these commission prices are put into
effect, but states that this is the first
time when phonograph operators will
get a real break. The location owner
guarantees a fixed amount of money
for his location and then shares the ex-
cess gains with the operator on a speci-
fied percentage basis. This is the first
instance, believes Baker, when labor
has organized on a commission basis.
Berman Sales Company have been
going to town this month. With an all-
time high for sales, operating, and ex-
porting since their establishing the busi-
ness three months ago, the Bermans
have added to their force three agents:
Harold Andree, Frank Feldman, and
Robert Walsh.
Business is so good at Viking that
owner Einar Wilslev had to work Decor-
ation Day and what with Einar's being
San Francisco's No. 1 sun bather and
his having a brand new specially-built
Plymouth, that 's news. Viking is show-
ing the new five cent packages of candy
put out by Pan Confection for candy
vendors as well as six new kinds of
candy for penny vendors. The mint stock
has been increased, due to the run on
mint vendors during this month.
Gus H. Jensen , northern California re-
presentative for Viking, is building a
chain of restaurants on wheels which
will be completely equipped with vend-
ing machines of all kinds. Attractively
constructed, decorated, and painted,
they are being sold outright to opera-
tors. Jensen's activities in this new field
will bring him to San Francisco where
he will make his headquarters at Vik-
ing.
Sen~ Us $12.00
and
We will send you-1 Mickey
Mouse Vending Machine, 8
Pounds of Boston Baked
Beans, 1 Gross . Mickey
Mouse and Snow White
Charms.
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(The original and only machine
authorized by Walt Disney)
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HAMILTON
DISTRIBUTING
COMPANY
275 Spear Street
San Francisco, California
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Figures have proven conclus ively to us th at th e
best games on the market today are:
KEENEY'S
A 5-ball , free-play game. Zippy action, intro-
ducing new high score play princip le , inter-
me d iate awards fo r individu a l skill shots . .
Priced mu c h lower than other Keeney hits . . .
Designed to earn fast money.
and
CHICAGO COIN'S
"Oce1111
P 11,-lt"
A 5-ball , free-p lay game. Fa st - co lorful -
packed with action-Tremendous ea rning power.
♦
M ulti-Races-Guaranteed-$59 .SO
Write for prices on other 5-ball, free -play and
other 5-ball games.
Wanted
Deuces Wil d (gum ve ndor models)
Liberal all owance for cash.
The Herb McClellan Company
1354 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, Calif.
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