Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1941 March - Page 57
$50,000 FOR A PHONO !
t hr i llin g, mo st
beauti f ul coun ter
That's What a Wurlitzer 850 Would
Have Cost Six Years Ago
tor y ! R US H
YOUR ORD E R
TO US TODAY !
By no less an authority than the Polaroid
Corporation of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
comes this startling statement.
"The polarizers used in the Peacock
Panel on the Wurlitzer Victory Model 850
would have been worth a king's ransom as
little as six years ago. They are by no
means cheap today, but in 1935, an equiva-
lent area of crystalline polarizers would
have cost over $50,000 !"
Actually, the Wurlitzer Peacock Panel
represents the first large scale commercial
application of a scientific phenomenon
which has been known to scientists for
hundreds of years.
On the scale in which they appear on
the Wurlitzer Victory Model 850, Polaroid
Colors are an entirely new thing in the
world. The public has never seen any colors
like them before except in soap bubbles
or in slicks of oil on water.
They are not the raw colors of the spec-
trum seen when you look into a prism,
nor are they like any colors produced by
pain t or ink. Polaroid Colors belong to an
entirely different and unusual class of colors
known to physicists as the interference
spectrum. They are the only colors pro-
duced commercially without dyes or pig-
ment.
Po laroid Colors are produced in a com-
pletely unique way - by means of what
scien tists call, "An optical sandwich." All
the colors in the Peacock Panel are pro-
duced from ordinary electric light. This
white light shines through a layer of Pola-
roid Film. Two pieces of Polaroid Film are
rotated by a motor to change the colors
simultaneously all through the pattern.
Interesting is the fact, too, that the Pola-
roid Colors do not clash. They appear side
by side without "fighting," and so do not
tire the eye. Just as a good composer
"modulates" from key to key in a popular
song to make it catchy enough to be a
hit, so this Peacock Panel "modulates"
from one color key to another. Before the
eye has a chance to tire of any combination
of colors, another combination takes its
place.
Small wonder that Music Merchants are
loud in their praise of Wurlitzer's far-
sightedness in applying Polaroid Illumina-
tion to their phonograph and in seeing to
it that no other automatic phonograph
manufacturer can apply it to his instru-
ments.
That Wurlitzer paid a " pretty price" for
its use goes wi thout saying, but all things
are relative, and the indications are that
the dividends on the investment, both for
Wurlitzer Music Merchants, are proving
♦
highly satisfactory.
Balance C.O.D.
The greatest, most
ga me in a ll his-
I /3 Deposit,
SAMPLE
$19.75
CASE OF 4
s72.so
LONG BEACH COIN MACHINE COMPANY
1628 East Anaheim
Long Beach, California
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
57
FOR
MARCH
1941
lnstalfation of Packard Pia-Mor Remote Control Unit in The Rainbow, Roseburg, O re gon . Mrs.
Viv ian Padelford , owner of the Rainbow, had the following comment to make: " My place being
too smalf for a phonograph and my counter business not permitting a large counter box, I
fo und that Packard Pia-Mo r was a de fi nite aid to my music problem." Mrs . Padelford appears
in the picture with some of her employees and operator V. V. Helb ig and Packard District
Manager, Clayton Ballard.
Operator's Cash Price
j Only $69.50
I
Th e Free Weight Scale will enable you
to sec ure th e choicest locations in your
terri tory.
•
•
Ven ds a st ick of Ad a ms Gum for eac h
penny-th en gives yo ur weig ht FREE.
A PERMANENT Money Maker !
Ter ms : On e.Th ir d Deposit Wit h Order,
Bal ance C. 0 . D.
Be First! Sen d Your Order Today !
C. A . C amp of Southern Distributing Co., Little Rock, left, sign ing order fo r 10 carloads of
Wu rlitzer Automatic Phonographs, while Bob Bleekman , Wurlitzer District Manager for O /t:.la-
homo, Texas and Arkansas looks on.
https://elibrary.arcade-museum.com
t hr i llin g, mo st
beauti f ul coun ter
That's What a Wurlitzer 850 Would
Have Cost Six Years Ago
tor y ! R US H
YOUR ORD E R
TO US TODAY !
By no less an authority than the Polaroid
Corporation of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
comes this startling statement.
"The polarizers used in the Peacock
Panel on the Wurlitzer Victory Model 850
would have been worth a king's ransom as
little as six years ago. They are by no
means cheap today, but in 1935, an equiva-
lent area of crystalline polarizers would
have cost over $50,000 !"
Actually, the Wurlitzer Peacock Panel
represents the first large scale commercial
application of a scientific phenomenon
which has been known to scientists for
hundreds of years.
On the scale in which they appear on
the Wurlitzer Victory Model 850, Polaroid
Colors are an entirely new thing in the
world. The public has never seen any colors
like them before except in soap bubbles
or in slicks of oil on water.
They are not the raw colors of the spec-
trum seen when you look into a prism,
nor are they like any colors produced by
pain t or ink. Polaroid Colors belong to an
entirely different and unusual class of colors
known to physicists as the interference
spectrum. They are the only colors pro-
duced commercially without dyes or pig-
ment.
Po laroid Colors are produced in a com-
pletely unique way - by means of what
scien tists call, "An optical sandwich." All
the colors in the Peacock Panel are pro-
duced from ordinary electric light. This
white light shines through a layer of Pola-
roid Film. Two pieces of Polaroid Film are
rotated by a motor to change the colors
simultaneously all through the pattern.
Interesting is the fact, too, that the Pola-
roid Colors do not clash. They appear side
by side without "fighting," and so do not
tire the eye. Just as a good composer
"modulates" from key to key in a popular
song to make it catchy enough to be a
hit, so this Peacock Panel "modulates"
from one color key to another. Before the
eye has a chance to tire of any combination
of colors, another combination takes its
place.
Small wonder that Music Merchants are
loud in their praise of Wurlitzer's far-
sightedness in applying Polaroid Illumina-
tion to their phonograph and in seeing to
it that no other automatic phonograph
manufacturer can apply it to his instru-
ments.
That Wurlitzer paid a " pretty price" for
its use goes wi thout saying, but all things
are relative, and the indications are that
the dividends on the investment, both for
Wurlitzer Music Merchants, are proving
♦
highly satisfactory.
Balance C.O.D.
The greatest, most
ga me in a ll his-
I /3 Deposit,
SAMPLE
$19.75
CASE OF 4
s72.so
LONG BEACH COIN MACHINE COMPANY
1628 East Anaheim
Long Beach, California
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
57
FOR
MARCH
1941
lnstalfation of Packard Pia-Mor Remote Control Unit in The Rainbow, Roseburg, O re gon . Mrs.
Viv ian Padelford , owner of the Rainbow, had the following comment to make: " My place being
too smalf for a phonograph and my counter business not permitting a large counter box, I
fo und that Packard Pia-Mo r was a de fi nite aid to my music problem." Mrs . Padelford appears
in the picture with some of her employees and operator V. V. Helb ig and Packard District
Manager, Clayton Ballard.
Operator's Cash Price
j Only $69.50
I
Th e Free Weight Scale will enable you
to sec ure th e choicest locations in your
terri tory.
•
•
Ven ds a st ick of Ad a ms Gum for eac h
penny-th en gives yo ur weig ht FREE.
A PERMANENT Money Maker !
Ter ms : On e.Th ir d Deposit Wit h Order,
Bal ance C. 0 . D.
Be First! Sen d Your Order Today !
C. A . C amp of Southern Distributing Co., Little Rock, left, sign ing order fo r 10 carloads of
Wu rlitzer Automatic Phonographs, while Bob Bleekman , Wurlitzer District Manager for O /t:.la-
homo, Texas and Arkansas looks on.
https://elibrary.arcade-museum.com
Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).