Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

St. Louis
(Continued from page 31)
ciat10n, which was held September 15th at
the Melbourne Hotel in St. Louis. Carl
Trippe, president of the group, reports that
the boys are all financially and physically
healthy into the autumn season. City
licenses were taken up, against the issuance
of the new $2 per machine city tax licenses
which should have been distributed July 1,
but so far have not been printed. In paying
this slightly heavier tax, the ops have been
granted the privilege of trading in the for-
mer license with $1 for a new city tag on
their businesses.
Baseball interest, focused by the St.
Louis Cardinals' surprising place in the
National League, has been of considerable
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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
NEW
IMPROVED
PEDESTAL
FOR
WURLITZER
61
The only stand on
the Market that
does not detract
from the natural
beauty of the "61."
Precision built
thruout. Tilt proof.
3½" triple chrome
Steel Post. Height
29". Base 19 11 xl9".
The base is genu-
ine Porcelain with
Rubber Bumpers on
the bottom to pre-
vent scratching of
the floor and to
level the stand.
aid to amusement machines, most report·
ed, due to the huge crowds of out-of-town
visitors thronging Sportsman's Park. Tav-
ern and store locations around this part of
the city are at a premium, and paying
heavy results.
Ten-cent cigarettes are a thing of the
past in the St. Louis area cigarette ven-
dors, Dewey Godfrey, the Missouri Amuse-
ment Machine Operators' Association legal
counsellor, reports-the difficulty of placing
three pennies under the cellophane jacket.
of the pack in order to get the new St.
Louis 2-cent city tax was too much for
most of the cigarette merchandisers. How-
ever, on the sunny side of the ledger, al-
most every machine is reporting a 75% or
better increase on straight 15-cent brands,
which has ironed out the tax situation
nicely.
Fred Boels, who formerly operated Carl
Trippe's penny arcade at Westlake Park,
has begun operating a phonograph route
at Springfield, Missouri. The arcade pulled
very well, this year, Trippe reports, with
the accent on amusement "sports" games
for the greater part.
George Rowland, president of the Row-
land Sales Company, has changed the name
of his firm to the Advance Phonograph
Corporation. Company offices are located at
4665 Page Avenue.
Catboating on the Lake of the Ozarks is
the ideal relaxat ion from the cares of oper-
ating a string of 200 vending machines,
Operator Harry Abbott of Wells ton, Mis-
souri, believes. Abbott recently bought a
luxurious catboat at $1,000, which takes up
each of his weekends.
Ideal Novelty Company reports business
on Bally Champions out~tanding, with
Vogue a close second. Ideal bought a
Mo to-Scoot glider scooter for its service
men in August, and is advertising hot-shot
repair service to all locations.
Ten new advertising photos released by
the Wurlitzer Company for location pro-
motion through distributors are cau,ing a
lot of comment in the offices of Martin
Balensiefer at 1300 Market Street. Depit:t-
.ing scenes in milk bars, beauty shops, drug
stores, taverns, clubrooms and bus stations,
Balensiefer gives his picture gallery credit
for giving many ops new ideas for loca-
tions. Phonograph distribution was excel-
lent in July, Balensiefer said, and better
than April or June.
♦
Utah Marble Operators
Forming Association
SALT LAKE CITY-At a meeting held
October 6th first steps were taken towards
the organization of the Utah Machine Op-
erators' Association.
The purpose back of the movement is to
create an organization to cooperate with law
enforcement offices towards licensed amuse-
ment devices in the state.
Coin machines will be introduced that are
played only as amusement devices and these
will be regulated by state and local officials
and licensed by cities and towns.
The organization is expected to follow a
pattern of those that have been successfully
operating in other states. Officers are now
working on a set of articles and by-laws for
the group.
Commenting on the new association the
Salt Lake Herald said: "The idea behind
the recent organization of the Utah Ma-
chine Operators' Association is the right
one and should be carried on. There is no
question but that there are many good coin
machines that are not only legal, but jus-
tified purely on the grounds of their amuse-
ment value. Other states where no form
of gambling is permitted have tried them
out successfully. There is no reason why
they can't work here."
"Many of the newer, high type games are
more entertaining than dances and shows
to many individals. There is no gambling
connected with them."
♦
White Sails ls
Baily's Newest
CHICAGO-Announcing the White Sails
5-ball novelty game, Jim Buckley, l(eneral
sales manager of Bally Mfg. Company, ex-
plained that the game combines the fertures
of so-called "spottem" skill play and the
,
appeal of high-score.
"White Sails," Jim said, "is a simple,
speedy game, available in either regular
novelty or free-play model. Player simply
lights 5 sails by hitting sail control bump-
ers-that's the 'spottem' skill feature. Then
he shoots to build up his award, and re-
ceives 1 free game of each bumper hit, after
5 sails are lit and the starting score is
reached."
♦
ADJUSTO PHONOGRAPH
COVERS, $8.75
Attention: Kansas Operators
Our Wichita Office is now open for your
convenience. Wurlitzer Phonographs and Parts
and a complete line of Coin-Operated Machines
in Stock at all times.
607 WEST DOUGLAS ST.
WICHITA, KANSAS
Central Distributing Co.
101-105 WEST LINWOOD
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Max Gerber, of Gerber and Glass , Chica go , regisfers keen delighf over Ten Sfrike ,
Evans' new bowling game now on localion of lhe Hofe/ Sherman , Chicago.
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