Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

A Look At The Industry Picture
Today
by Carl Trippe
of Ideal Noyelty Co., Sf. Louis
this particular time it is good to pause
and examine the status of the Coin
II
Machine Industry as it is today-what lies
T
ahead and what the future holds for all
of us.
The employment situation looks very
favorable to us in more ways than one. First
of all, as we see it, all distributors and
jobbers are coasting because of the gas
rationing, tire shortages, loss of mechanics;
and many businesses have closed down.
After the war is over, which we hope will
be soon, all of us will need a lot of hel p,
such as mechanics, route men, salesmen,
chauffeurs, stenographers, shipping clerks,
porters and the like. You can visualize the
huge numbers that will be taken into our
industry in these brackets.
We are also aware of the fact that there
are a great many business locations vacant
in all parts of the country. This includes
restaurants, bars, cocktail lounges and all
types of locations suitable for coin-con-
trolled equipment. When the war is over
the demand will be very great for every
business location, which means the need
for a lot of help. When these business loca-
tions are again occupied it will mean thou-
sands and thousands of new locations for
the operators.
The manufacturers will build finer and
better equipment. With the experience the
manufacturers are deriving from building
implements of war for Uncle Sam they will
get ideas for the future that will be almost
unbelievable. We think the phonographs
and other coin-operated equipment will do
everything but talk. I honestly believe that
the Coin Machine business will be bigger
and better than it ever was. The same goes
for every other business.
The operators must, and will, buy this
new equipment as fast as it is manufac-
tured. Since there have been no new games
built since the war, the operators have a
lot of old games which are worn out. Even
in normal times operators were continually
in need of new equipment. I hope the day
is not far off when all the manufacturers
will be working night and day in order to
supply the demand.
Wins Production Award
MORRIS, III. - Announcements were
mailed out February 1st to the effect that
the Northwestern Corp. has been awarded
the Army-Navy "E" Production Award for
excellence in war production.
Northwestern Corp. is peacetime manu-
facturer of vending equipment.
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Carl Trippe
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
7
Foa
MARCH
7944
"Bolly" engineers and workers are proving, daily that their skill-developed in peace-time pro-
duction of coin-operated games and venders-is a valuable asset to America in time of war. And
"Bally's" performance in war production is a forecast of "Bally's" performance in the victorious
future. lion Manufacturing Corporation, Chicago, manufacturers of "Bally" games ond venders.
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