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Outside of possibly San Francisco, no
other city in the United States is mak-
ing faster s trides in pioneering the coin-
operated foot oscillator than Seattle.
Leading department stores, shoe stores,
shoe repair shops, beauty parlors, and
the police department have gone down
the line heavily for this device. So well
has this machine done its work and so
great has been the demand by foot-
weary patrons, that Frederick & Nelson,
longest established department store in
Seattle, have a special booth for foot
oscillators.
They are calling Cliff Carter, Ameri-
can Record's ace-high record juggler,
"The Sphinx of Coin Row" after what
happened last month. With the same
look of fixed immobility on his face ,
Cliff went about his business as usual ,
breathing nary a word to a soul. Then
one day he walked in and said matter-
of-factly: "Well, I've gone and done it.
It's Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Carter from here
on in ." Just like that. Coin Row is still
trying to find out the girl 's name.
Superior Distributors, Inc., have been
named exclusive dis tributors for Stew-
art & McGuire 's new Dual, Feather
Touch Cigarette Machines in the state of
Washington. Co-owner Bert Farmer is
predicting big things in the way of
results.
The jobbing end of Heroux Enter-
prises has been incorporated under the
name of Evergreen Novelty Corp. In
charge of this division is Al Gustafson,
veteran coinman. Earl J. Heroux will
confine his activities to arcade manage-
ment. His concessions at Redondo Beach
and Playland Park opened May 13th,
with capacity crowds attending.
Coin Row, particularly the phono men,
will be glad to hear that Mary Casper-
son , for a number of years office worker
at the Wurlitzer office and recently
pinch-hitter for Genevieve DeLong at
Decca, is doing right well for herself in
the employ of the Empire Hotel in San
Francisco.
Employees of the Jack Moore organ-
ization held a business convention in
Portland on May 6th, and while See-
burg's 1939 policy and sales measures
were in the spotlight, there was ample
time for recreation. A dinner and dance
at the Aero club on May 5th and a
Sunday morning breakfast at the Ben-
son Hotel with Henry Anchester, western
sales manager of Seeburg, as host, pro-
vided the employees of the five Moore
branches with "the pauses that refresh."
Coin machines received added dis-
tinction on May 27 when the Shriners
arranged for a display of coin operated
equipment in the lobby of the Civic
Auditorium for their Northwest meeting
and banquet. The purpose was to create
a carnival effect. The 2,000 Shriners in
attendance were high in their praises
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A Typical National
wear out, no dead alarm when elec-
Installation
tricity is disconnected. The National
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clearly audible several hundred feet away, when equipment is tampered
with.
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MACHINE
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of the Swiss music box and other arcade
equipment furnished by the Evergreen
Novelty Corp.
A movement to organize a local at
the labor temple exclusively for coin
machine service men is now under way.
Better wages and working conditions is
the banner under which they are cam-
paigning. One operator, whose name
we will not mention, is paying his serv-
ice man $12 a week. This service man
is supporting a family on his wages-
or trying to , we should say-and is
finding the temptation of dipping into
the cash box on his own accord hard to
resist. More efficiency and happier em-
ployees will result if the move to organ-
ize culminates satisfactorily.
Personable Frank Allen climbed an-
other notch on the ladder to phono-
Los Angeles, Calif.
graph fame when he received a well-
deserved promotion las t month. He left
for his new post as manager of the
San Francisco office of Decca on May
31. When Allen opened Decca's Seattle
office some year-and-a-half ago the firm
employed but two men. Under Allen's
fine guidance, that number swelled to
four and just last month another, Leslie
Tobey, was added to the shipping de-
partment to handle the sharply rising
volume of business that has been a key- •
note of Allen's mana,ership.
Parties are thrown and banquets are
staged twelve months in the year, but
none come even close to equalling the
annual blow-out tossed by Operator
Arne Holtan. Sixty guests had a terrific
time of it on the night of May 27. Feature
of the evening 's entertainment was an
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