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Anaheim; George Wheelock, San Diego ;
equipment ?" we queried. " No," sez Frank,
and Harold Murphy, Indio.
"just say Root is in town again looking for
a widow! "
Jimmie Dyer h as just returned from the
LOS ANGELES - Bigges t news this
Bud Parr of General Music Co., returned
Middle West, where he visited the P ackard
month was the appointment of two mem-
to Los Angeles on the 12th from a four day
Manufacturing Corp. plants in Indiana-
bers of the industry to serve with an OP A
buying trip to Las Vegas.
polis.
official in Washington in administering ceil-
Would you like to sit down to a two -inch
Jack Pfeffer is credited with having a
ing prices on coin-opera ted equipment. Don
remote control system in Hollywood's long-
thi ck New York cut smothered in mush-
Clark , of the Clark Distributing Co. and
est bar. Spot is th e Hollvwood Cafe Night
rooms and topped with sauted green onions
J. A. Stevenson, Salt Lake City, were ap-
tonight ? Add to this a ni ce fresh shrimp
Club on Santa Monica Boulevard.
pointed. First meeting is schedul ed for De-
Shorty Gaunt, Twenty Nine Palms, was
cocktail , soup, potatoes, vegetable, toasted
cember 1st and jobbers and distributors are
french bread and coffee, and then pay a
in Los An geles November 13th pickin g up
eagerly awaitin g rulings so that equipment
$1.50 check ? Sounds good, doesn' t it? And
equioment at General Music Co.
sal es may again return to normalcy. Clark
Mrs. Phil Brown, Bakersfi eld, purchased
it's not so fa r away. Spot we're speaking of
and Stevenson are takin g on a thankless
is the San Diego Cafe across the Mexican
a substantial amount of new equipment
j ob and their contribution to th e welfare
from Clark Distributin g Co., th e first week
line at Calexico. No rationing in Mexico
of th e industry should be a ppreciated by
and the food is really terrific. Ask George
.
of the month.
all. Eac h will be called upon to pay his own
Culver . .
Danny J ackson, Pismo Beach, visited
e xpenses in attendin g the meetings in Wash-
To be college-bred requires a four year
lo cal j obbers the week of the 15th and
ington. One ordinary round trip from here
loaf, a lot of dough, and plenty of crust,
painted a ch eery picture concerning condi-
to attend a meeting generally runs in the
according to Bill Simmons.
tions in his part of the state.
Fred and Ollie Trevillian were in from
neighborhood of a thousand dollars so you
Jane Ca rico, J ack Gutshall's effi cient Girl
can see the contribution these men are
Sa nta Barbara the first part of the month
Friday, was spotted t'other day lookin g
to pick up equipment at Clark Distributing
mighty chic in a new brown pin stripe suit.
makin g.
Industry members in Los Angeles were
D. H. Osborn, Piedmont, Calif., recently
Co.
L. B. McCreary, local manager for the
grieved to h ear of the sudden passing of
purchased a route of phonogra phs in Sacra-
E. T. Mape Music Co., left here the week
Dave Grossman , pioneer pin game operator,
mento and is now operating there.
of the 22nd fo r an organization conference
who succumb ed followin g a heart attack.
Alph a Distributing Co. reports th e re-
in San F rancisco.
Dwight Osborn, son of A. D. Osborn and
claiming of many thousands of u sed phono-
form erly with Packard Manufacturin g Co.,
Mr. and Mrs. J ack McClelland are back
graph needles for repointin g. "It is sur-
at th eir Wilshire Amusement Co. in Holly-
has received a medical discharge from the
prisin g," states W . E. Simmons, manager,
wood after spendin g a month with the Joe
Army due to th e reoccurrence of an old
" th e amount of valuable osmium contained
injury.
Orcutts in Oregon. Orcutt has a Filbert
on these old needl es." Rej ects are averagin g
ra nch and J ack is telling how Joe pl anted
Everybody go t a deer on th e J ack Gut-
less than 25 per cent.
hi s Victory garden. H e asked hi s wife how
shall hunting ex pedition. The group re-
Bob Cardiff, San Mi guel arcade opera-
to plant the ca rrots a nd radi shes and she
turned on October 25th after bu ckin g snow
tor, picked up new equipment h ere the first
said "in rows" two feet apart. Jo e didn' t
four and fIve feet deep to get th eir bu cks.
of th e month.
hea r th e "in rows" comment and took h and-
Operator O' Dell, Radium Springs, New
Charles P everly, Oxnard, backed his
ful s of seed and pl anted it in mounds two
tru ck up in front of E. T. Mape Music Co.,
Mexi co, was a recent visitor at the Alph a
feet apart. The results were truly am azin g.
Distributing Co. h eadquarters_
November 15th, to pick u p some needed
Cluster3 of undersized vegetabl es were on
H. O. McClure, form er operator of
supplies.
tap. " Only thing I did wron g was not to
Waukegan , III., h as taken over th e Har-
Fred Reilley has rounded out a year and
mony H ostess Wired Music System in
a h alf as a flyin g instructor for the army at . pl ant a strin g alon g with th e seed," ad-
mitted Joe. " Th en I could pull the bun ch
P asadena from Al Ezor.
Blythe. Fred gets in town on ce a month and
and take it directly to market."
Recent visitors spotted in local establish-
is keeping the local office of Western , Ex-
Mr. and Mrs. Elbee Gerson, Bakersfi eld,
ments picking up parts, equipment and
hibit open.
visited th e Paul Laymons on November
suppli es, included: Jack Arnold, Barstow;
Herb Kl emme has r eturned to th e lo cal
16th and purchased a large order. Mrs.
R ay F aust, Santa Ana ; Frank Robinson of
offices of Clark Distributin g Co. as service
Gerson was sporting a beautiful n ew con -
R. & H. Amusement Co., Los Angeles;
mechani c. Herb will b e rememb ered by
vertibl e Buick in fire-engine red- a gift
Tommy Mason, San Ysidro ; H arold Meier,
most music operators as an expert Wurlitzer
from hubby.
Pasadena; Art Narath , Anaheim ; Roy
service man wh en he was located her e a
Martin V. Smith, now with th e Army
S mith , Lan caster; Art Shaw, Lon g Beach ;
few years ago.
Air Cor ps, purchased equipment th e early
Bill Shorey, San Bernardino ; Stewart Trim -
Frank Root, Lan caster , dropped in on
part of th e month at Laymon's for his Ox-
local distri butors on the 12th. "Looking for
ble, Huntington P ark ; Charles P eddicord,
nard Cafe. Bud expects to b e transferred to
Phoenix shortly and hi s wife and moth er
will take over the mana gement of hi s res-
tau ra nt.
Lucille Laymon served with the Red
Cross Canteen U nit durin g the forest fires
in th e Santa Monica Mountains. H er unit
fed th e firefi ghters with hot meals ench
day, and when th e army mobil e unit failed
to follow th e soldiers into the fire area
they served coffee, sandwi ches and dough-
nuts to the soldiers h elping in the fire fi ght-
ing.
Consisting of
Paul Blackford
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
34
FOR
.NOVEMBER
J943
rOB SALE
1940 SEEBURG WIRED MUSIC
SYSTEM
20 Turn Tables
2 Switch Board Panels
Rec:ord Index
20 Pre-Amps
Rec:ord Rac:ks for 3000 rec:ords
19 Maestro Units-
(15 are equipped
for
manual
FOR ADDITIONAL
.<.
operation as well as wired music:
and may, or may not be pur-
c:hased with the balanc:e of the
equipment: 4 are Maestro Cab-
inets for Wired Music: operation
only)
Clear-Tone C abinet
DETAILS
AND
PRICE, SEE AUBREY STEMLER AT
CLARK DISTRIBUTING, COMPANY
1561 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles 7. Cal.
Remodels Office
LOS ANGELES- Considerable remo'd el-
ing has been done in the local offices of
Jean ' J. Minthorn e, Rock-Ola Distributor
for Southern California and Nevada. In the
2920 West Pi co side of th e buildin g new
parti tions have been install ed creating a
series of offi ces along the right wall. On the
east sid e of the building the front po'rtion
has been converted into a record depart-
ment and a sto ck of more than 18,000 rec-
ords is already on hand. A soundproof
booth has been installed for the convenience
of customers.
Minthorne's nrivate office is situated .be-
tween the Rock-Ola showrooms" and the
record department which gives him easy
access to all departments of the organiza-
tion ri ght from his own office.
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