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Philo-delphio
ARCADES GETTING HEAVY PLAY .. .
HIGH POINT OPENS NEW SET-UP . . .
NEW MEMBERS JOIN PHONO GROUP
... AMI RETIRES FROM PHONO OPER-
ATING . .. TAX ORDINANCE WATCHED
By Harr y Borfn ick
48
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
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PHILADELPHIA (RC) - During the
past month we have visited several of the
leading Arcad es in Philadelphia, Atlantic
City, Willow Grove, Woodside and nearby
seashore resorts. Headliner at most of these
s pots seems to be th e anti -aircraft and rapid
fir e guns with ray guns running a close
second. Novelty tables and bowling ga mes
a re also getting a good play. Marty Mitni ck,
Sam Lerner, Louis Sokolove, Andy Foster,
Bill Rodstein a nd Cy Glickman are a few
of the operators running Arcades this
season.
One of th e neates t record shops in the
East is the one opened in late July by the
Hi gh Point Amusement Company. Every
modern convenience is embodied in th e new
set-up and Maurjce Finkel and staff are to
be congratulated on th eir enterprise.
Mazeltov to operator Ben Hankin who is
the proud daddy of
a baby girl. Diane is
the name of the new
8 and one - fourth
pound
newcomer.
Hankin was former-
ly treasurer of the
Philadelphia
Coin
Machine Operators'
Associatfon.
Sam Litt is not a
bit sorry he entered
the coin ma chine
operating g am e
a year ago. I'm only
Harry Borfn ick
sorry I didn't do it
long before is hi s
lament. Sam furth er states if he has nin e
more years of expansion equal to his first
year in th e busin ess he'll not have much to
worry about th ereafter.
Harry Rubin has placed a large number
of his Vibro-Foot machines around the city.
Harry claims he is getting a fin e collection
from his machines. In addition he has fifty
of his machines at the New York Fair.
Newest memb er of the Phonograph Op-
- erators' Association of Eastern P ennsyl-
' vania and New J ersey is Raymond Bern-
hardt. He was previously a partner of
Charles Young and purchased a part of
Youn g's route before joining. Quaker City
Amusem_ent Company is his trade operating
cognomen.
AMI, one of the largest phonograph op-
erating organizations in th e East, has r e-
tired from the operating business and sold
its ma chines to former employees. The Phil-
adel phia routes were sold to Thomas Brett,
Herb ert Sheward and Harold Reese, each
of which joined the local Association. Clin-
ton Clarkson secured some AMI lo cations in
the West Chester sector.
Back in Philadelphia after a month's va-
ca tion in Florida is Robert Harper, form er
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Chicago, Illinois
124 N. Union Street
I 107 NO . HIGHLAND AVE.
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