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COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
22 Photomatics
At N. Y. Fair
NEW YORK.-Featuring 22 Photomat-
ics, at the Exhibit area, excludi~g those in
the Amusement area the sensational auto-
matic picture taking machines, at the New
York World's Fair, 1940, International
Mutoscope Reel Company, Inc., Long Is-
land City, are not only proud of the phen-
omenal play these machines are getting
daily but also of the tremendous publicity
which has since accrued in the press all
over the nation because of the machines all
over the Fair grounds.
One outstanding example is the Photo-
matic at the Railroads on Parade buildfng
where high railroad magnates have com-
mented on the machine and have asked
that more be placed about the building for
the benefit of visitors.
Another spot where the Photomatics are
getting great action is in the Aviation
Building where interest is at high pitch
these days due to the displays of the new
Army and Navy bombers, scout and pursuit
planes as well as the bombs which these
ships are carrying. The public flock here
to see this unique display so currently
interesting and before leaving the building
walk out with a souvenir photo of them-
selves completely framed from Photomatic
machfnes with the Aviation Building name
on the back of the frame.
Automatic built-in stores, all over the
grounds feature two Photomatics each.
These are tremendous attraction getters.
In fact, when the other exhibits are closed
at about 10 :00 A.M. these are the only
stores still open and getting a play until
2 :00 A.M. in the early morning.
The official fair receipts for the 22 Photo-
matic machines for the first ten weeks of
operatfon show $21,343.64. This is an ave-
rage of better than $97.00 per week gross
per machine for the 22 machines now in
operation.
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Stoner Announces New
"Double Feafure"
AURORA, ILL.-C. R. Adelberg, Sales
Manager of the Stoner Corporation, is feel-
ing mighty proud with the introduction of
their new game, "Double Feature." Adel-
berg reports that the distributors and oper-
ators who have already seen it are not only
enthusiastic about the game but are liter-
ally swamping them with orders.
Eddie Ginsburg, Atlas Novelty Company
official, after visiting the Stoner factory to
see "Double Feature" hurried home and
lost no time in telling their operators about
it.
Adelberg in commenting on the new
game said that one of the greatest features
of "Double Feature" is its lnany ways to
win. "I t's really different, .and a game that
is certain to make a hit iii every 'location."
"Double Feature" offers the players two
ways to play, If he plays one nickel he tries
to beat the high score, after which skill
points are awarded. There is an extra award
light that awards a skill point if contacted
when lit. However, if a player prefers to
play for two nickels he can play for high
score or "lights out". In addition he has
the opportunity of winning the big extra
"Double Feature" awards, awards made in
addition to the skill points won, and how
the players go for these big extra "Double
Feature" awards.
"My advice to every operator is to make
a point of seeing "Double Feature" ,11nd
then he will see why we say it is double in ,
every way!"
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(Continued from Page 33)
Mason's new Central Distributing Com-
pany, and from Topeka, scene of Vernon
Sperry's operations, all tell in glowing terms
of boxes that are overflowing as a result of
the influx of dollars from the golden grain.
At the Mo-Kan Amusement Company it
has been a busy summer, Steve Volgi, for-
merly a contact man for this firm, is now
operating for himself. His place at Mo-
Kan has been taken by Harry Ginsberg.
Also Miss Kitty Kelly, formerly with the
"Music Center," is now handling the firm's
office affairs.
At the United Amusement Company the
place is a-buzz with manager Carl Hoel-
zel's new invention, a new " Shim Protec-
tor," For several months Carl and several
other Missouri and Kansas operators have
been trying it out on locations and all give
it thefr stamp of approval. It is designed to
prevent the play of machines through the
insertion of wires or other instruments into
the coin chutes. A solid curved brass piece,
it fits over the coin receiver and also aids
in rejecting bent coins that might block
the mechanism. It is to be distributed on
the national market, through United, in the
immediate future.
Due to heavy summer business few opera-
tors or distributors are getting very far
away from home.
Practically all Kansas City operators re-
turning from trips through this area report
that the entire Missouri Valley has wel-
comed back the novelty tables with open
arms. In most cases these are simply free-
play without any prizes of any kind includ-
ing high-score. In a few limited areas, west
of Missouri, pay-outs and high-score prize
stimula tors are being used but these are
very much in the minority.
Another novel idea in operation of the
tables that has come to light lately since
the hot weather began sending the mercury
up past the hundred-mark, is the placing of
electric fans where they will keep a breeze
blowing past the machines. In some cases
operators are buying these fans and selling
them to the locations by taking their cost
out of the location's commission, Other op-
erators are convincfng the locations of the
profitableness of them buying the fans. And
in a few cases the operators are supplying
the fans and adding them to their regular
equipment list. In all events, operators re-
port that the fans do help draw and hold
customers at the machine.
At United Amusement Company a touch
of the old west has come into the picture
with the addition of a wall-size buffalo skin
which was recently presented to Carl Hoel-
zel and now adorns his office.
·The Coin Machine Operators' Association
of Kansas City has changed from regular
weekly meetings at the Hotel President to
once-a-month gatherings for the duratfon
of the hot weather. The July meeting was
held at Harrison's Chicken Dinner Farm
and 24 members were in attendance. Aug-
ust's meeting will be held late in the month
at the President on a date not yet decided
upon. Any operator wishing to attend this
meeting can get the date from any of the
Association's officers.
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"When Crumpitt died, he left everything
to charity."
"That so? What did he leave?"
"Widow and four children."
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She: "Wasn't that a cute bathing suit
Jane wore this afternoon?"
He: "I couldn't tell; her back was
turned."
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