Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

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- - - - - - - - - B y Paul W. Blackford---------
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C O IN
MACHINE
REVIEW
editors of Time termed the device a Tele-
phonic Juke and unfortunately did not
handle the story from the source of activity.
The first so-called 'Telephonic Juke" (or
Wired Music as everybody else knows it)
originated in the West two years ago.
Which means of course that the editors of
Time, the learned gentlemen who pat them-
selves daily on the back for their journal-
istic accomplishments, once in a whole DO
make a terrific error. Despite it all the
copy was good for the industry as a whole.
It's vacation time again and following
the September book we'll lock up shop at
THE REVIEW and take a brief rest. This
year we plan on a short
jaunt by water up into
the very heart of Alaska.
We'll be gone a bit over
two weeks and we hope
to have a good yarn to
spin in this department
in October.
• YESSIR, it's come to pass! Following
in which his members function. The hours
the "feeler" copy we carried in this depart-
he puts in daily, in behalf of his operator-
ment last month we've had concrete evi-
members, would surprise you.
dences of support, and communications
In this, the first public tribute to a worth-
from operators, jobbers and distributors,
while · American since this department
urging that we go ahead with a Winter
started, let's raise our glasses and drink a
Show in Los Angeles in November. We did
toast to a real scout, a real fellow and a
. . . and the formal an-
nouncement is on page 7
of this issue.
We're quite proud of
the fact that the 1940
Western States Coin Ma-
chine Convention will
be held in the Los An-
geles Biltmore . . . the
• More desirable pub-
focal point of all social
licity for the newest pro-
activity in the downtown
duct of the coin machirte
area. The mere fact that
industry -
the movie-
the hotel management
phono-was given in the
has agreed to present the
July 30th issue of the
November 18, 19 and
New York Mirror. De-
20th display in the ex-
voting almost two-thirds
quisite Galeria Room
of a page to a photo of
shows the prestige the
the new Phonovision ma-
Coin Machine Industry
chine the paper had this
has gained through prop-
to say under the heading
er public relations in the
of "Nickel Flicker Blitz":
West.
"The Axis knows that
The CoIN MACHINE
unless traders follow di-
REVIEW enters the picture
plomats, a diplomatic
only as the financial un-
victory is a hollow one
derwriter for the 1940
Show. Civic organiza-
Hence, one far-
tions in Los Angeles, and
sighted group of Yankees
organizations in the in-
have been quietly plan-
dustry, are putting their
ning a 'nickel flicker
shoulders to the wheel to
blitzkrieg' in South Am-
see that the November
erica. Here's the story:
Convention is a terrific
Thousands of nickel
success.
sound - movie
machines
•
One of the best
will appear in South Am-
managed and smoothest
erica cafes and restaur-
working organizations of
ants from the Rio Grande
marble machine operat-
to Cape Horn, early in
ors in the entire country
the fall. . . . They will
is the Associated Opera-
carry newsreels to South
tors of Los Angeles Coun-
ty. Under the capable
America that will im-
"Sorry, fellow, if the machine is one ball short I can 't help you tonight."
direction of "Curley"
press our neighbors with
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the size and strength of
fo r t he above cartoon. Our check fo r $1.00 is being ma il'e d . You too can win $1. 00. Se/eel
tion is head and should-
a suit able t itle fo r t he abo ve cartoon and mail to Gag Edi tor, THE REVI EW, 11 15 Venice
the U. S.-an important
Los Ange les. You may b e next: mon fh:.._s win~er!
ers above previous groups
factor at this time.
♦
in the diplomatic man-
ner in which they handle problems of all
man who has the operator's problem close
types. We have known "Curley" for some
to his heart ... CURLEY ROBINSON.
little time. We've talked to dozens of ope-
•
The industry continues to break into
rator-members of the Association he heads
print in various parts of the country. This .
and we have yet to hear anything but al- . issue contains a very favorable story that
most Godly praise of the work he has been
broke in a St. Louis pa per on automatic
doing in behalf of A. 0. L. A. C.
phonographs. In the August 5th issue of
I 10 7 NO. H I GHLAND AVE-.
"Curley" is continually abreast of ope-
Time a column was devoted to a discussi'on
LOS ANGELES , CALIF.
rating activities in all parts of the territory
of the new Wired Music. In ignorance the
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