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Plans for 1945 are th e fo remost thoughts
in .the minds of South ern California as 1944
draws to a close. The year has favored the
sons of the coi n chu te with the best grosses
in years and 1945 will li kely live up to the
past year. Jo bbers an d distributors have,
and are, acquiring new and larger quarters,
and a general house cleaning and modern•
ization program is in full swing.
December surprised everyone and instead
of being a light month in sales, turned out
to be a bumper month and more coinmen
were in town than in any December in any-
one's memory. Within a week period your
reporter observed the following in town to
do Christmas shopping and pick up equip-
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
42
FOIi.
JANUARY
1945
START THE NEW
YEAR OFF RIGHT
with
3000 to 4000 Play
TOP LINE NEEDLES
Also our red border, perfectly per-
forated Title Strips give you 27 Titles
instead of the usual 24. Also highest
grade rodent proof 30-Wire Cable.
Write for Order Forms
Alpha Distributing Co.
1025 N. Highland Ave ., Hollywood 38, Cal .
ment: Mr. and. Mrs. Fred Allen, Bakers-
field; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Vaughn, El Cen-
tro; Jack Beavers, Oxnard; Mrs. .] im
Hume. Palm Springs; Bob Cardiff San
Miguel ; W. Ellis Johnson, Clare~ont;
Brown and Roberts, San Fernando; Burt
Polin, San Luis Obispo; Pete Thelen Glen-
dale; Dick Sharp, Santa Ana; Kel]y and
Harvey, Pismo Beach; Claude Tomlinson
Dos Palos; Bill McGowan, Woodlake;
Lloyd Barrett, Pomona; J. W. Olson, San
Pedro; E. G. Bryant, Glendale; Ted Bloom-
er, Mojave; Jake Everett, La Habra; and
Matthew Lagier, Susanville.
Lucille Laymon has received word of the
injury of her cousin, Lt. Robert Deupree, a
navigator on a Liberator bomber. Deupree
was here on furlough last July and flew
the bomber to a base in New Guinea. In a
bombing mission over the Philippine ls-
lands the Liberator ran into strong head-
winds on the return and made a crash
landing on Morotai island. The young
lieutenant's whole side is in a cast and he
is being flown to the states for hospitaliza.
tion. He was awarded the Purple Heart at
a bedside ceremony in the South Pacific.
Army medics say it will be a year before
he will be able to return to service.
A. S. Steiner recently purchased an Ar-
cade at Ocean Park and is now in the
throes of moving it 3 doors away.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack McClelland are back
in town. Couple went to New York a few
weeks ago in the hopes of catching a boat
for Australia. In New York Jack found
out he could go but no women were being
taken on board. Consequently they returned
to town to await the day when they both
can leave for "down under."
Howard Hong, former operator, took ad-
vantage of a leave from Luke Field, Ari-
zona, to visit local coinmen.
Ted Brown, Bakersfield, is quite an avia-
tor these days. When Ted needs parts for
his route he heads his own plane towards
L. A. He lands at Compton, and drives into
AUTOMATIC EI.ECTRONICS
NOW LOCATED AT
2801-03 W. PICO BLVD., LOS ANGELES 6, CAL.
• In our new location we have considerably more space and greater
facilities to serve our customers even better than in the past.
• We now have a well equipped machine shop for parts production.
Send in your worn or broken part and we will reproduce it.
• We specialize in complete overhaul, rebuilding and refinishing of
Photomatics and Panorama. Also other "peeps." All makes of pro-
jectors repaired.
• We can rebuild and refinish your Rapid Fires and Seeburg Ray Guns.
• In stock for immediate delivery: all fibre gears for Mills Panorama
and Peeps. "D" cams, upper and lower sprocket shafts and bushings
for Panoram projectors.
• We can supply you with latest and best films, ready to place on
your Panoram Peep reels, at prevailing prices.
FAST SERVICE ON ALL TYPES AMPLIFIERS
Courteous Attention and Prompt Service
WILLIAMS
MANUFACTURING COMPANY
161 W. Huron St. , Chicago 10, Ill .
town.
Ray Tisdale, Glendale, is hobbling around
on crutches. Ray claims he jumped from a
porch and sprained his ankle.
G. F. Cooper, Riverside, was in town to
pick up his son and take him home for a
short furlough.
Harry Kaplan is getting plenty of com-
pliments on his new remodeling at South-
western Vending. More improvements are
still to be made and when completed, Harry
will have a first-rate jobbing and distribut-
ing establishment to handle the big lines to
come after the war.
Buddy Flanagan, son of Jim Flanagan,
Laymon mechanic, is connected with an
amphibious landing craft and was in on the
Leyte invasion. Buddy is now in the Philip-
pines.
Bill Leuenhagen is getting a lot of
laughs from a dummy box of cigars he is
displaying atop his counter. Invariably the
operators reach in for a handful only to
find the top layer of dummies and stuffings
underneath.
Bob Donaldson, Jr., son of J . R. Donald-
son, Montebello operator, has been trans-
ferred from anti-aircraft training to radar
and is now at Fort Bliss, El Paso.
Betty Bell is the new secretary in the
office of Paul A. Laymon.
Recent customers at California Amuse-
ment included Dorser Music, Bakersfield;
Thompson Brothers, Long Beach; Johnny
Patrick, Santa Maria; Clem Korte, La Cres-
cen ta; Ross M. Fulton, Reno; Frank Sho-
walter, Santa Ana; Ernie Gregg, Pasadena;
Jack Olsen, San Pedro; Ray Wherrit, San
Luis Obispo; George Kelley, Pasadena; L.
E. Skinner, San Diego; Art Sternall, Palm
City; F. McDaniels, Santa Maria and Ben
Korte, Glendale. Billy Mason, Santa Mon-
ica, was also in for the first time in weeks
to pick up equipment. L. B. McCreary, of
Stockton, San Francisco and way points,
was also in to buy equipment.
Al Anderson, Shafter, brought the missus
South the first of the month to do Christ-
mas shopping while he picked up equip-
ment at Clark Distributing.
Mac Mohr is now comfortably situated
in new quarters at 2827 West Pico Boule-
SLOT MCB. SPRING KIT
$9.75
Hi-Grade Spring Ass'+
$2.50
- - SEE -
PAUL A. LAYMON
DISTRIBUTOR
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