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Brodley's Hoppy
With Buckley Units
ARE YOU GETTING YOUR RIGHTFUL
SHARE OF MUSIC PROFITS?
SAN DIEGO-"We're really happy wi th
the 42·Box Buckley Music System in tailed
in our San Diego location," declares Heck
Church, president of the Bradley's 5 & 10
chain on the Pacific Coast.
Featuring popular drinks at unbelievably
low prices and food that cannot be beaten,
the Bradley cha in has had a phenomenal
growth on the coast. Catering to everybody
- from top hat to working cap - the Brad·
ley spots served over 3,000,000 people duro
ing 1940.
T he new San Diego spot has become the
bright spo t in San Diego night life and each
evening finds it packed to the doors. Forty·
two Buckley wall boxes are install ed in the
spot to care for the terrific play.
George Wheelock, prominen t so uthern
operator, made the install ation and reports
average grosses in the new Bradley's of
140.00 per week.
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Hardly a day passes but one
of our customers tells us of the
definite increase in income and
the complete freedom from serv-
ice calls they are enjoying since
installing the Packard PLA-MOR
Remote Control Selector.
If you haven't investigated the
famous PLA-MOR Selector we
invite you to come in today
and learn what a phenomenal
change has come about in the
phonograph business, Western
Distributors have long been
known to keep abreast of all new,
improved ideas and so once again
Western Distributors takes the
lead with Packard equipment.
W rite Budge Wright
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WESTERN DISTRIBUTORS
1226 S. W. 16th Avenue
PORTLAND. OREGON
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FOR
SEPT.
1941
~ Wood and Power
Aid Defense
HOLLYWOOD-Tyrone Power, motion
picture actor, has joined Barry Wood, pop·
ular singer, in making a defense recording
for RCA Victor Company.
Power repeats his performance, "Saga of
the Leathernecks", given on the Treasury
Department broadcas t, "Millions For De·
fense" and, on the other side, Wood sings
Irving Berlin's "Arms for the Love of
America", assisted by Mark Warnow's
orchestra and the Ray Block singers.
According to Victor, Wood recently got
a l ittle too enthusiastic about helping the
def ense program. Dozens of pots, pans and
other cooking articles made of aluminum
have been arriving for Barry, who asked
for them, via song periods on the radio. So
he didn't bother to examine one package
the mai lman brought him. When, next day,
a letter arrived from a friend touring
Canada, tell ing him abo ut a box containin/!
three new, choice briar pipes-the box had
gone its way and joined up with ational
Dclem~
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Mathias To Represent Columbia
EW YORK-The appointment of AI·
bert Mathias and Co., Phoenix, Ari·
zona, as who lesa le d istributors for Colum·
bia and Okeh records in Arizona, has been
anno unced by Pau l Southard, Sales Man·
ager for Columbia Recording Corporation.
T he new d istributors will service record
dealers formerly served by the Ray Thomas
Company, Los Angeles, who continue to
represent Columbia in the Los Angeles
area.
The EI Paso division of Albert Mathias
and Co. will serve the southwestern corner
of Texas and southern
ew Mexico on
Columbia and Okeh records, territory for·
merly handled by the Sweeney Electrical
Co., Denver, and Southwestern Music Co.,
Dall as.
Southard states, "The addition of these
two distributing points will enable dealers
in these territories to receive better service
and closer co·operation than has been
possible."
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Another location to join the swing to installations of Wurlitzer Mode l 125 Wall and Bar
Boxes is the busy Towne Club af Madera , California. Operafing on a W urlifzer Victory Model
850 , fhis locafion now offe rs fh e new single coin enfry 5, 10, 25c Wurlifzer Box on ifs bar.
Reports are fhaf fh e convenienf coin ge ff ers have re sulted in a cons iderable increase in phono-
graph play profifing bofh the Club ifself and Music Merchanf Floyd Knudson of Fresno who
installed fhem. Says Floyd, " If custome rs haven' f gof a nickel , the y slip in a d ime or a quarfer.
These Wurlifzer Bar and Wall Boxes have certainly pushed my incom e up fo very pleasing
le vels wherever I ha ~' e installed them ."
Mape Music Has
Record Month
LOS ANGELES - August will long be
remembered at the Mape Music Co. for
during August one of the greatest sales
records in the h istory of the organization
was hung up.
So busy were the fo lks at the Los An·
geles office that Ed Mape came down from
the San Francisco office and spent the
month helping L. B. McCreary and the
local staff take care of th e unprecedented
orders for Seeburg equipment.
"The new 5, 10, 25c Bar·O·Matic ac·
counted for a major portion of the fine
business we enjoyed," said McCreary.
"During August we booked orders for
more than eight carloads of these new
units. Operators are certainly en th usiastic
about the new box and we look forward
to a continued heavy business in the
months ahead. Test installations have
proved conclusively that the 5, 10, 25c unit
ups the earn ing power of an installation
terrifically."
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Here's The Do~e Ahout
TOMMY DORSEY
Tommy Dorsey was born in 1904 at Ma·
honey Plains, Pa., and made his debut as
a musician in Shenandoah in the same
state.
As a youngster his ambi tion was to be
a mechanical engineer. His first earnings,
however, came from driving a delivery
truck for a meat market. For this he reo
ceived $16 a week, but he soon discovered
that trombone playing, even in small bands,
was lots more remunerative. Once launched
on a professional musical career, it was
scarcely any time before he was playing
the "big time" and getting real checks.
His father, an accomplished instrumen·
talist, gave Tommy an inten ive musical
training that sent him through every in·
strument of the bra s section before the
trombone was selected. Both father and
son played numerous one·nigh ters together,
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