Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1941 February - Page 16
Oklahoma Merchants
Battle For Games
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
16
FOR
FEBRUARY
All the proved and potent play-appeal of Rapid-
1941
Fire . . . plus new profit-boosting features
mechanical refinements . . . and a compact one-
piece cabinet that "fits into the picture" in every
location! See your distributor or write factory
today for complete information and prices.
BALLY MFG. COMPANY
2640 BELMONT AVENUE
CHICAGO
Show Sales Boom,
Baker Predicts Big Year
Kaplan Adds
Chicago Office
CHICAGO - Highly gratified with the
results of the recent Show, officials of
Baker Novelty Co. report great enthusiasm
for their products and the placing of orders
in direct proportion to that enthusiasm, as
~he basis for prediction of 1941 as the big-
gest year in the industry.
Big Time, five-ball novelty game, at-
tracted considerable attention, as did
Lucky Strike, new one-cent counter game
in compact size offering one to ten pack-
ages of favorite brands of cigarettes. The
1941 Deluxe Baker's Pacers with daily
jackpot is also said to have drawn high
co!Jlpliments from visitors on the third an-
niversary of introduction of the unit.
♦
LOS ANGELES-Harry Kaplan, owner
of Southwestern Vending Machine Com-
pany, here, has announced the opening of a
Chicago office at 1150 West 69th Street,
to be known as Interstate Coin Machine
Exchange. Al Farley, formerly associated
with Kaplan in the Los Angeles office, has
been named manager of the Chicago branch.
Interstate Coin Machine Exchange will
serve as a buying office for the main
organization, checking on new equipment as
it comes from the manufacturing plants to
determine suitability for western operation,
seeing that the games are delivered prompt-
ly to the west coast, and acting at the same
time as a clearing house for used equip-
♦
ment.
OKLAHOMA CITY-The coin machine
industry, and its affiliate, the salesboard
business, have found staunch and crusading
support in Oklahoma among some 50,000
small merchants, men and women in every
city and town, who are being enlisted un-
der the banner of The Oklahoma Progres-
sive Merchants Association.
Scoring the common attitude which per-
mits anti-marble game and similar legisla-
tion to be passed, the group declares, "In
Oklahoma, as elsewhere, we elect men to
the legislature and then turn them loose
and if they wander off in strange fields we
blame them, when a word from hoine might
keep them in the people's groove." Declar-
ing also that "When the small merchant
prospers everyone benefits," the association
made its first efforts to consolidate the
"words from home" in a statewide meeting,
January 19, at the Wells-Roberts Hotel,
here, pointing their initial aim at restora-
tion of amusement equi'pment.
"You'll possibly never forget 1939 and
1940," declared an association spokesman
to the assembled merchants. "You didn't
have your marble machines and sales-
boards. You missed them; your customers
missed them. Don't you remember that
grand bunch of fellows that used to come
in your place and have a lot of fun playing
the marble machine? They were a swell
crowd trying to put the little ball in that
elusive hole. And when one of them rang
the bell, did he crow about his ability to
beat the other boys!
"Then, too, possibly you are stuck right
now with a lot of good merchandise that
you thought you would sell at Christmas
time. But it didn't sell and you still have
it. Now those salesboards would do the
trick, but you can't run them. As a result
. .. you're just stuck.
"All right, brother, listen. You can get
them back. That's just why the Oklahoma
Progressive Merchants Association came
into existence. There are thousands of loca-
tions in this state that want these amuse-
ment machi'nes and salesboards back. We
are organizing in one great body. We are
making our wants known. We are going to
be heard. We are going to make a terrible
noise.
"Don't say it can't be done ... it can be
done! But it can only be done if everyone
cooperates . . . We small merchants have
the same right to ask and expect from our
legislators - whom we elect - legislation
that will help our business the same as the
bankers association, the doctors, dentists,
farmers, or any other group ...
"This is your proposition. You own the
locations. You are THE ONE in this pic-
ture. We must have your support!"
Hats off to The Oklahoma Progressive
Merchants Associatfon for starting a grand
fight, and to their officers: Mrs. J. L. Pur-
due, of Enid, president; Luke Rogers,
Shawnee, first vice-president; M. L. Penn,
Muskogee, second vice-president; Roy W.
Smith, Oklahoma City, secretary; Dan
Lowe, Oklahoma City, treasurer; and to the
district chairmen who will undoubtedly do
a big and generally thankless job in round-
ing up other location owners!
♦
Burel Assets Auctioned
CHICAGO - Stock, office and delivery
equipment and the good will of Burel and
Co., Inc., were auctioned on the premises
formerly occupied by this firm, January 22,
by Zazove & Brown, Inc., auctioneers, on
behalf of the receivers of the concern. ♦
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Battle For Games
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
16
FOR
FEBRUARY
All the proved and potent play-appeal of Rapid-
1941
Fire . . . plus new profit-boosting features
mechanical refinements . . . and a compact one-
piece cabinet that "fits into the picture" in every
location! See your distributor or write factory
today for complete information and prices.
BALLY MFG. COMPANY
2640 BELMONT AVENUE
CHICAGO
Show Sales Boom,
Baker Predicts Big Year
Kaplan Adds
Chicago Office
CHICAGO - Highly gratified with the
results of the recent Show, officials of
Baker Novelty Co. report great enthusiasm
for their products and the placing of orders
in direct proportion to that enthusiasm, as
~he basis for prediction of 1941 as the big-
gest year in the industry.
Big Time, five-ball novelty game, at-
tracted considerable attention, as did
Lucky Strike, new one-cent counter game
in compact size offering one to ten pack-
ages of favorite brands of cigarettes. The
1941 Deluxe Baker's Pacers with daily
jackpot is also said to have drawn high
co!Jlpliments from visitors on the third an-
niversary of introduction of the unit.
♦
LOS ANGELES-Harry Kaplan, owner
of Southwestern Vending Machine Com-
pany, here, has announced the opening of a
Chicago office at 1150 West 69th Street,
to be known as Interstate Coin Machine
Exchange. Al Farley, formerly associated
with Kaplan in the Los Angeles office, has
been named manager of the Chicago branch.
Interstate Coin Machine Exchange will
serve as a buying office for the main
organization, checking on new equipment as
it comes from the manufacturing plants to
determine suitability for western operation,
seeing that the games are delivered prompt-
ly to the west coast, and acting at the same
time as a clearing house for used equip-
♦
ment.
OKLAHOMA CITY-The coin machine
industry, and its affiliate, the salesboard
business, have found staunch and crusading
support in Oklahoma among some 50,000
small merchants, men and women in every
city and town, who are being enlisted un-
der the banner of The Oklahoma Progres-
sive Merchants Association.
Scoring the common attitude which per-
mits anti-marble game and similar legisla-
tion to be passed, the group declares, "In
Oklahoma, as elsewhere, we elect men to
the legislature and then turn them loose
and if they wander off in strange fields we
blame them, when a word from hoine might
keep them in the people's groove." Declar-
ing also that "When the small merchant
prospers everyone benefits," the association
made its first efforts to consolidate the
"words from home" in a statewide meeting,
January 19, at the Wells-Roberts Hotel,
here, pointing their initial aim at restora-
tion of amusement equi'pment.
"You'll possibly never forget 1939 and
1940," declared an association spokesman
to the assembled merchants. "You didn't
have your marble machines and sales-
boards. You missed them; your customers
missed them. Don't you remember that
grand bunch of fellows that used to come
in your place and have a lot of fun playing
the marble machine? They were a swell
crowd trying to put the little ball in that
elusive hole. And when one of them rang
the bell, did he crow about his ability to
beat the other boys!
"Then, too, possibly you are stuck right
now with a lot of good merchandise that
you thought you would sell at Christmas
time. But it didn't sell and you still have
it. Now those salesboards would do the
trick, but you can't run them. As a result
. .. you're just stuck.
"All right, brother, listen. You can get
them back. That's just why the Oklahoma
Progressive Merchants Association came
into existence. There are thousands of loca-
tions in this state that want these amuse-
ment machi'nes and salesboards back. We
are organizing in one great body. We are
making our wants known. We are going to
be heard. We are going to make a terrible
noise.
"Don't say it can't be done ... it can be
done! But it can only be done if everyone
cooperates . . . We small merchants have
the same right to ask and expect from our
legislators - whom we elect - legislation
that will help our business the same as the
bankers association, the doctors, dentists,
farmers, or any other group ...
"This is your proposition. You own the
locations. You are THE ONE in this pic-
ture. We must have your support!"
Hats off to The Oklahoma Progressive
Merchants Associatfon for starting a grand
fight, and to their officers: Mrs. J. L. Pur-
due, of Enid, president; Luke Rogers,
Shawnee, first vice-president; M. L. Penn,
Muskogee, second vice-president; Roy W.
Smith, Oklahoma City, secretary; Dan
Lowe, Oklahoma City, treasurer; and to the
district chairmen who will undoubtedly do
a big and generally thankless job in round-
ing up other location owners!
♦
Burel Assets Auctioned
CHICAGO - Stock, office and delivery
equipment and the good will of Burel and
Co., Inc., were auctioned on the premises
formerly occupied by this firm, January 22,
by Zazove & Brown, Inc., auctioneers, on
behalf of the receivers of the concern. ♦
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