Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

one of th e favored spots in lo cal coindom
alDng about Christmas time will b e th e
offices .of the J ack Gutshall Distributin g
CD . FDr Jack has acquired, heaven help
us, tl;le mDSt entrancing nude thi s re[l'Jrter
has ever spent an hDu r gazin g at. ::::omes
Christmas Jack exp ects tD share prints of
her IDveliness with thDse .of you WhD have
answered his ads in TH E R EVI EW. Better
turn to J ack's ad nDW and get your na me
.o n the list.
Fred White, Visalia, made it tD LaymDn's
th e last .of September to fill his equipm ent
requirements.
Mr. and Mrs. H arry GDrdDn , San DiegD,
a rrived in town .on th e 3rd to s pend a few
days with the Minth Drn es, LaymDns, Mac
MDhr and .other local coin luminaries.
Harry fi gured he shDuld sta rt hDme .on th e
6th fD r sD methin g tDld him he shDuld. It
was gODd th at he did for th e County Board
.of SupervisDrs were at work durin g hi s
absence and had their surpri se waitin g fDr
him upDn his a rrival. (See news repDrt
elsewh ere in this iss ue. )
Allen C. AndersD n, Shaft er, was in on
th e 3rd to pick up eq uipm ent at IDcal j'Db -
bers. Allan stDpped in tD chin with Mac
MDhr abDut th e gDDd .old days befDre -this
a nd that.
Ed Map~, Sa n FranciscD, was in town .o n
the 2nd and 3rd and placed a nice .order
with Badger Sales for Mills Three a nd F Dur
Bells t D be shipped tD San FranciscD an d
Berkeley.
Nick Carter, owner .o f the Nik abob CD.,
is happy about the repDrts ema nating from
the sanitarium concerning Mrs. Carter. She
is gaining stea dily and very encDuragin g
repDrts are cD min g from th e dDctDrs. Th e
Carter children are in a Girls' SChDDI dur-
ing mamma's StDP at th e "Get Well" sta-
tion.
Art Dawes, San DiegD, dropped in at
IDcal SPDtS .on Septemb er 26th. Art makes
the L. A. trip regularly tD kee p up .o n
thin gs.
William ShDrey, San BernardinD Dp er-
atDr, was pegged by this repDrter lDadin g
ga mes at P aul LaymDn's.
Jack Gerety has taken .over the A. Ber-
man Arcade in Bakersfi eld.
T Dmmy Kearn s, HDnDlulu, T . H., is still
.on the mainland pickin g up equipment f Dr
shipment tD th e islands as cargD space per-
mits. Tommy handles Decca records, paints,
radiDs, and half a dDzen other items ex-
clusively f Dr the islands. AND , if YDU run
intD TDmmy, make him prove his star
sapphire has a six prong star. It's a 7%
ca rat beauty.
Mac MDhr has annDunced, in this issue,
a new service fDr western opera tDrs. His
firm is n DW repairing, refinishi ng, repaint-
ing and .overha uling SIDtS_ Mac has an ex-
pert, draft deferred, in charge .of the wDrk
and the sa mples we saw are r eally gODd.
C. L. GDldie, San Francisco, trekked
sDuth the first week in O c tDb er t D CD mpare
notes and argue with Mac Mohr abDut
equipment shortages.
Mr. and Mrs _ O. H. P res her, San DiegD,
were in tDwn on the 6th and 7th and spent
cDnsiderabl e tim e with L. B. McCrea ry a t
Ma pe Music_
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Summers, MDntana
DperatDrs, vaca tiDned in th e SDuthland in
late September, and ordered a ni ce bun ch
.of equipment f ro m LaymDn's tD fDlIDW th em
home.
Jack Gutshall is leav in g .o n th e 16th fDr
hi s yearly visit tD FilImDre, Utah, a nd this
year, as always, J ac k is fDrtified with a
permit fDr a bu ck a nd dDe _ .. a nd , may
we CDmment, he'll get th em. Acco mpanyin g
l ack .o n thi s sDrti e will be the fa ithful Jac k
Pfeiffer; .o ne of his IDcati Dn .owners, P ete
Snyder ; a nd Carol Lein art. Th ey expec t tD
be go ne 10 days.
BDb RDtzell , 24, form erl y .o f th e P aul A.
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LaymDn Service Department, IDSt his life in
th e battl e .of the SDIDmDns arDund Septem-
ber 7. H e was a radiD man in a navy dive
bDmber. BDb jDined the navy in June of last
year and participated in the battles of
Midway and Guam. The Navy Department
states that Bob was sighted in a rubber
bDat followin g th e shDoting dDwn .of his
plane but rescue was impDssible.
Frank RDOt, the guiding li ght up Lan-
caster way, b eamed in at L. A. in early
OctDb er to CDmpare nDtes .on equipment.
Leave it to F rank tD fi gure it .out cDrrectly.
L. B. McCreary, head-man at the IDcal
offi ce .of Mape Music, was in San Diego .on
th e 7th, 8th and 9th.
N_ R. VDDrhees, servi ceman fDr Kenneth
Wolfe in San DiegD, has returned tD hi s
hDme in El MDnte and will free-lance oper-
ate in this area.
802
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803 N. CARLISLE ST.
PHILADELPHIA , PA.
The Gutshall s make Big Bear Lake regu-
larly and almDst any Friday afternDDn will
see th em getting ready for a week-end visit
up in the mDuntains. " Who Dat," their sea-
gDing yacht, is statiDned there and Jack is
getting quite adept at handling the skiff
and .of late the natives thereabDuts are ap-
plauding his maneuverability .
Alex KDleDpDlus, Bakersfi eld , made a
hurry-up trip t D Laymon's the first of th e
mDnth to annex a few machines_
Clarence Byrne, serviceman f.or Harry
GordDn in San DiegD, ended his life with a
bullet thrDugh his head .on September 26th.
Byrne, a fDrmer emplDyee .of the Gans CD. ,
had been in ill health fDr SDme time.
Jane CaricD, secretary tD Jack Gutshall,
has a new secret tD harbor. Recently sh e
sailed tD San Francisco and . . . sufficient
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