Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1939 September - Page 29
NEW! 1¢ COUNTER CAME!
- MIDGET BASEBALL
-
THIS NEW GAME HAS BEEN "LOCATION TESTED " AND PROCLAIMED A " WINNER "
BY EXPERIENCED OPERATORS ! IT IS A GENUINE SKILL GAME AND ALSO VENDS A
BALL OF GUM FOR EACH PENNY!
•
Il. ROBBINS & C0.,1141,R. DeKalb Ave. BROOKLYN,N.Y.
•
OPERATORS AND JOBBERS -
WRITE FOR DETAILS TODAY
It's a Girl at the
Simmons Home
Phono Ops. Ass'n
of E. Penn. 6 N. J.
By Harry Bartnick
So -little activity has been noticed here
for such an extended period that phono-
graph operators have begun to consider the
local territory a perfect example of what a
strong Association can do to regulate busi-
ness conditions in any territory.
Operators and locations are co-operating
so closely that meetings have been entirely
confined to routine matters, Frank Ham-
mond, business manager, stated. Although
summer business is always a bit dull it is
expected that th e fall and winter will find
collections considerably better.
The Automatic Music Association of
New Jersey, Inc., has appointed James
Hammond business. manager of their organ-
ization. James is a brother of Frank Ham-
mond, of the local group, and has had con-
siderable administrative experience which
well fits him for the responsible position
he now holds. James Hammond spent sev-
eral weeks in the offices of the local Phono-
graph Association learning the routine of
work.
Louis Zayon and Sam Litt, members of
the Coin Machine Association, have joined
this group under the affiliation agreement
existing between the two Associations. ♦
HOLLYWOOD-Billie Jean is the name
of a six-and-one-half year old blonde girl
who has joined the family fireside at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Simmons.
Simmons is the Wurlitzer factory repre-
sentative in Los Angeles.
Mr. and Mrs. Simmons and Billie Jean
left Hollywood September 2nd for Wich-
ita, Kansas, Nashville, Tennessee, and a
visit to the Wurlitzer plant in North Tona-
wanda. They expect to be gone a month. ♦
• •
Tubby-" Pete boasts that his wife
made him all he is."
Heiny-"That's not boasting; that's
apologizing."
•
• •
Visitor-How many students are there
at your college?
Student-Off hand, I'd say only about
one in every ten.
Brown Gives Views On
Rock-Ola Visit
CHICAGO-Fisher Brown, Rock-Ola dis-
tributor for Texas, visited the Rock-Ola
Manufacturing Company the last of August
on his regular mid-year visit to Chicago.
While Brown transacted his business his
family was conducted through the huge
plant to see exactly how the popular Luxury
Lightup phonographs are made. They ex-
pressed amazement at the activities and ex-
ten t of the big factory, covering around
half a million square feet of floor space,
and at the many modern machines needed
to manufacture the Rock-Ola phonograph.
Brown began his business career in the
coin machine business when it was experi-
encing its first growing pains. He has wea-
thered the storms and has watched its rise
to a first ranking industry. Naturally his
own business has grown steadily and pros-
pered.
In view of his long experience, his ideas
are always interesting and sound. Brown
believes the industry has reached a point
of stabili ty; that the coin-operated phono-
graph is here to stay and that there is a
definite market for the purveyor of coin-
operated music. Recently co-operative ef-
forts have been initiated among operator
groups, between distributor and manufac-
turer, and he feels that this movement to
join forces and work for the good of the
industry as a whole is doing more to estab-
lish the industry on a high reputable plane.
While a t the factory Brown put in an
order for several carloads of phonographs
and stated: "We have had an excellent
business with the Luxury Lightup phono-
graphs. People in Texas are really keen
on these brilliant and colorful machines."
♦
29
COIH
MACHINE
ltEVIEW
Lopez Defends
Modern Sw ing
1
CHICAGO-Vincent Lopez came to the
front in defense of swing, recently, de-
nouncing college professors and anti-swing-
sters with all the enthusiasm that he might
put into a real hot jam session.
Lopez, one of the nation's ranking swing-
band leaders, admitted swing is an escape
-it has been branded as such by several
college professors-but he added, "so is all
music ; all .dancing. And so is art."
The recent events, which helped to bring
on the profuse denunciation of critics by
Lopez, included polls taken at several uni-
versities, purportedly showing that students
on the campuses abhorred swing.
"Golfers are crazier," Lopez claims.
"When you put swing dancing and golfing
together, which is the craziest? A great
big hulking man playing with a little ball
or a couple of youngsters pouring out their
energy to the strains of a swing band?"
Lopez said people should not be fooled
by the song industry's swing toward bal-
lads. It simply means that the sheet-buying
public likes ballads best. America will be
swinging 20 years from now, according to
L~~
• •
"And once
♦
Mabel -
you said you
wouldn't marry James on any account."
Dorothy - "Yes , but at that time I
didn't know it was such a big one in
the bank. "
Sa mmy Rick/in
Al C asse ll
Sammy and Al's slogan is: -
"SEEBURGS perform best, loolc best, produce best results
for · conscientious operators."
California Music C ompany, compo sed of two popu lar and we ll -known operators, Sammy Rick lin
and Al C assell , have grown stead i ly within their two years of opera t ing, and read ily ad mit t hat
:;;'~"oh vbtl/ es~uccess is d ue to their wi se choice of phonographs, SEEBURG 20 r ecord CLASSICS
Al and Sam my, in separab le as " Ham and Eg g5" 1 ha ve f or the past year been exclu5ive
SEEBURG buyers, purchasi ng a ca rload of 20 record SEEBURG phonograph s from Jea n M in-
thorn e, and con st ant ly obt aining new worthwh i le spot s with t he ir SEEBURG eq ui pment.
Says Sammy " .. . J ean says I ' m noi sy- but as long as I' m noisy about the merits of SEEBURG S
he ~ oesn 't ca re" - and Al ag rees. Bot h boys have worked t i relessly to increa se their phonog raph
bu51ne5S, and attribu t e th eir extra vac ation time to th e smooth performance and lack of service
calls with the SEEBURG Phonographs.
E. T. JEAN
,MAPE
MUSIC CO.
MINTHORNE-Branch
Manager
1517 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles
(Watch for October's "Operator of the Month"J
https://elibrary.arcade-museum.com
- MIDGET BASEBALL
-
THIS NEW GAME HAS BEEN "LOCATION TESTED " AND PROCLAIMED A " WINNER "
BY EXPERIENCED OPERATORS ! IT IS A GENUINE SKILL GAME AND ALSO VENDS A
BALL OF GUM FOR EACH PENNY!
•
Il. ROBBINS & C0.,1141,R. DeKalb Ave. BROOKLYN,N.Y.
•
OPERATORS AND JOBBERS -
WRITE FOR DETAILS TODAY
It's a Girl at the
Simmons Home
Phono Ops. Ass'n
of E. Penn. 6 N. J.
By Harry Bartnick
So -little activity has been noticed here
for such an extended period that phono-
graph operators have begun to consider the
local territory a perfect example of what a
strong Association can do to regulate busi-
ness conditions in any territory.
Operators and locations are co-operating
so closely that meetings have been entirely
confined to routine matters, Frank Ham-
mond, business manager, stated. Although
summer business is always a bit dull it is
expected that th e fall and winter will find
collections considerably better.
The Automatic Music Association of
New Jersey, Inc., has appointed James
Hammond business. manager of their organ-
ization. James is a brother of Frank Ham-
mond, of the local group, and has had con-
siderable administrative experience which
well fits him for the responsible position
he now holds. James Hammond spent sev-
eral weeks in the offices of the local Phono-
graph Association learning the routine of
work.
Louis Zayon and Sam Litt, members of
the Coin Machine Association, have joined
this group under the affiliation agreement
existing between the two Associations. ♦
HOLLYWOOD-Billie Jean is the name
of a six-and-one-half year old blonde girl
who has joined the family fireside at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Simmons.
Simmons is the Wurlitzer factory repre-
sentative in Los Angeles.
Mr. and Mrs. Simmons and Billie Jean
left Hollywood September 2nd for Wich-
ita, Kansas, Nashville, Tennessee, and a
visit to the Wurlitzer plant in North Tona-
wanda. They expect to be gone a month. ♦
• •
Tubby-" Pete boasts that his wife
made him all he is."
Heiny-"That's not boasting; that's
apologizing."
•
• •
Visitor-How many students are there
at your college?
Student-Off hand, I'd say only about
one in every ten.
Brown Gives Views On
Rock-Ola Visit
CHICAGO-Fisher Brown, Rock-Ola dis-
tributor for Texas, visited the Rock-Ola
Manufacturing Company the last of August
on his regular mid-year visit to Chicago.
While Brown transacted his business his
family was conducted through the huge
plant to see exactly how the popular Luxury
Lightup phonographs are made. They ex-
pressed amazement at the activities and ex-
ten t of the big factory, covering around
half a million square feet of floor space,
and at the many modern machines needed
to manufacture the Rock-Ola phonograph.
Brown began his business career in the
coin machine business when it was experi-
encing its first growing pains. He has wea-
thered the storms and has watched its rise
to a first ranking industry. Naturally his
own business has grown steadily and pros-
pered.
In view of his long experience, his ideas
are always interesting and sound. Brown
believes the industry has reached a point
of stabili ty; that the coin-operated phono-
graph is here to stay and that there is a
definite market for the purveyor of coin-
operated music. Recently co-operative ef-
forts have been initiated among operator
groups, between distributor and manufac-
turer, and he feels that this movement to
join forces and work for the good of the
industry as a whole is doing more to estab-
lish the industry on a high reputable plane.
While a t the factory Brown put in an
order for several carloads of phonographs
and stated: "We have had an excellent
business with the Luxury Lightup phono-
graphs. People in Texas are really keen
on these brilliant and colorful machines."
♦
29
COIH
MACHINE
ltEVIEW
Lopez Defends
Modern Sw ing
1
CHICAGO-Vincent Lopez came to the
front in defense of swing, recently, de-
nouncing college professors and anti-swing-
sters with all the enthusiasm that he might
put into a real hot jam session.
Lopez, one of the nation's ranking swing-
band leaders, admitted swing is an escape
-it has been branded as such by several
college professors-but he added, "so is all
music ; all .dancing. And so is art."
The recent events, which helped to bring
on the profuse denunciation of critics by
Lopez, included polls taken at several uni-
versities, purportedly showing that students
on the campuses abhorred swing.
"Golfers are crazier," Lopez claims.
"When you put swing dancing and golfing
together, which is the craziest? A great
big hulking man playing with a little ball
or a couple of youngsters pouring out their
energy to the strains of a swing band?"
Lopez said people should not be fooled
by the song industry's swing toward bal-
lads. It simply means that the sheet-buying
public likes ballads best. America will be
swinging 20 years from now, according to
L~~
• •
"And once
♦
Mabel -
you said you
wouldn't marry James on any account."
Dorothy - "Yes , but at that time I
didn't know it was such a big one in
the bank. "
Sa mmy Rick/in
Al C asse ll
Sammy and Al's slogan is: -
"SEEBURGS perform best, loolc best, produce best results
for · conscientious operators."
California Music C ompany, compo sed of two popu lar and we ll -known operators, Sammy Rick lin
and Al C assell , have grown stead i ly within their two years of opera t ing, and read ily ad mit t hat
:;;'~"oh vbtl/ es~uccess is d ue to their wi se choice of phonographs, SEEBURG 20 r ecord CLASSICS
Al and Sam my, in separab le as " Ham and Eg g5" 1 ha ve f or the past year been exclu5ive
SEEBURG buyers, purchasi ng a ca rload of 20 record SEEBURG phonograph s from Jea n M in-
thorn e, and con st ant ly obt aining new worthwh i le spot s with t he ir SEEBURG eq ui pment.
Says Sammy " .. . J ean says I ' m noi sy- but as long as I' m noisy about the merits of SEEBURG S
he ~ oesn 't ca re" - and Al ag rees. Bot h boys have worked t i relessly to increa se their phonog raph
bu51ne5S, and attribu t e th eir extra vac ation time to th e smooth performance and lack of service
calls with the SEEBURG Phonographs.
E. T. JEAN
,MAPE
MUSIC CO.
MINTHORNE-Branch
Manager
1517 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles
(Watch for October's "Operator of the Month"J
https://elibrary.arcade-museum.com
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