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ST. LOUIS
VARIOUS ASSOCIATIONS ELECT FOR '40 . . .
FIRES CONTINUE . .. TWIN PHONOS USED FOR
DANCE . • . LANSBAUM PURCHASES HOME
OPS MARRY
By Robert Latimer
With the advent of warmer weather in
St. Louis during February, business is back
at its normal key, operators of the city
report, with more accent on tavern and
location profits than was evident during the
recent record cold spell here. Music men
are busy with laying out new locations and
checking the old with "spring in the air"
as the guiding reason.
Fires are still bothering many operators
in the territory. Latest among those to re-
port losses from this source were Paul
Kelley of CentraHa, Illinois, and Fred Pat·
terson, Mount Vernon, Illinoi, ~oth of
whom lost a new phonograph m fires
brought on by the cold snaps. Most pecul-
iar accident of the year was reported from
Chester, Illinois, where Charles Brown,
southern Illinois Wurlitzer operator, saw
two of his machines go floating away down
the Mississippi. when an ice floe tore a
riverside tavern bodily from the shore.
Directors of the Associated Phonograph
Owners of St. Louis' Association got to-
gether for a board meeting in late February
to elect officers for the association, which
now has a complete membership of 56 coin
machine firms and operators of large
routes. All officers are appointed by the
board of directors succeeding the latter's
election, and are thus an integral governing
unit of more than ordinary efficiency. New
officers are: John Clay Steward, president;
John LaBan, vice president; Jack Beck·
man, treasurer; and Martin Balensiefer, reo
elected secretary and "executive" manager
in recognizance of the fine job he turned in
during 1939. The Association is putting up
a unified front against all deleterious oc·
curences in the industry, and has strong
support from all parts of its territory.
Lou Hormonn is among the busiest op·
erators in the city, in addition to his string
of Wurlitzer phonographs, operating the
famous Big Apple Tavern in the suburb of
the city, and managing the Wurlitzer bowl-
ing team which plays weekly against some
of the city's best keglers.
Vincent Sieve, whose unfortunate acci-
dent enroute to the Chicago Coin Machine
Show was reported in the February issue
of COIN MACHINE REVIEW is back in St.
Louis swathed in bandages and a cast,
which however, has not stopped him from
going over the route in his automobile with
a hired driver. He expresses his thanks to
the many operators who sent cards and
MAC MOHR SAYS:
condolences while in the hospital at Bloom-
ington, Illinois, and the A socia ted Phono-
graph Operators' Association, which pitched
in to protect his busines interest while
Vincent was hors de combat in Blooming-
ton.
One of the most novel phonograph in-
stalla tions ever made in the middle west
was a highlight in East St. Louis February
5th, when two new Wurlitzers were used in
combination to hroadcast dance music for
more than 450 people in a ballroom in the
Illinois city. Because of conditions under
which it was impossible to procure a dance
band, the hosts of the dance, which was
held for employees of the packin g industry,
were caught with backs to the wall, until
someone suggested amplified phonograph
music as an adequate substitute. When
contacts were made, it was found that am-
plifiers of sufficient scope were not to be
had anywhere-all being tied up with vari-
ous other celebrations going on simultan-
eously. Accordingly, the owners of the
phonographs to be used spent several hours
synchronizing two phonographs to play the
same record at full blast at exactly the
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