Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

'may become the world's first 200-pound
£keleton.
Para-grabs ... The Booths done dood it
again. A couple of years ago Van and
Beulah cut the city strings and bought
a farm in Mt. Vernon. The' lure of coin
clinks soon brought them back to the
fold . Once again it's bye-bye Row, hello
Mt. Vernon-this time not as farmers but
as metropolitans relaxing from the harried
hurry of the big town.
Sole proprietor, full owner, and manager
of Puget Sound Novelty is the new title
bestowed on George Schnabel after Part·
ner Vern Preston chalked off the sale of
his interests. Vern is headed for Sunny
Cal and new horizons.
M. E. Boswell, phono·op, record-store
owner, sold his Third Avenue disc biz to
John Kerns. Boswell still retains his route
and one retail store.
Mystery of the Month: While musical
play has maintained a high level, city pin
game grosses dropped 30 per cent and no
one can Iay a finger on the cause.
No sooner had Art Andrell incorporated
Heberling Bros.' Seattle music holdings into
his own route than he sold the works to
Bert 'Buetler's brother-in-law from Virginia.
Coming in on a wing and a beam, PFC
' Ron Pepple, major domo of Northwest
Sales, au-revoired th e Aleutians for a
States furlough.
"When they start cutting sugar allot-
ments for home canning, then there's not
much hope for increased quotas in the
merchandising field," was the gloomy pre-
COIN
MACHINE diction of a candy man who sees nothing
but dark- days ahead.
REVIEW
Master mechanic Jack Howlett, veering
sharply to the field of electronics, points
with pride to his newest achievement:
installation of a public address system at
the Union Station.
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Coining the Kennel News . . . While
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Pin Op "Porky" Jacobs has been nursing
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the gout, the pride and panting joy of
the family, LeMonde Chic DeLarson has
been winning dog shows like mad. When
the prize toy French poodle snagged top
honors at the Victoria, B. c., poodle
parade, it marked the third straight vic-
tory. Canine magazines have pictured the
non-pronouncable champion in a profusion
of poses and colors. So many trophies
have been annexed that the Jacobs apart-
ment resembles a silverware shop. "If he
wins many more," opines ' Porky's wife.
"we'll have to move to a larger apartment."
One of the judges was so impressed that
he offered $1,000, but a super-dog's value
cannot , be measured in mere money.
That old saw about "Join the Navy and
See the World" has its animal parallel in
Charley White's pet "Pierre," who sits back
' on a specially built-in chair in Charley's
car and watches the world go by.
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Ken Rader owns a rare blue-haired
beauty: a Sealyham terrier so striking as
to make show judges go wild, except that
it's spayed and thereby ruled ineligible
for competition.
Hitting the High Spots At Heberling's
. . . Here is one of the classic ironies of
war. Burly Rudy Peterson was shooed away
from the khaki by an uncompromising in-
duction station, but 47-year-old Harry Ban-
nister pensioned veteran of World War I,
weari~g a silver plate in his back, was
accepted for War IT!
In the curtain raiser, Harry served with
the First Canadian Cavalry brigade in
France and Belgium. He attained the rank
of Corporal in No.2 before age restrictions
caused a cutback to civilian life. The dou-
ble-barreled vet is now back at his old
post: in charge of Heberling's shop.
Wearing enough battle stars to stud the
Milky Way, Seaman Jess Bickford finished
a Navy leave in Seattle and hied to Wash-
ington, D. c., for additional schooling ..
Twenty-eight-year-old Bob Chamberlm,
pride of West Seattle and sunshine kid ~f
Heberling's. has been evacuated from OkI-
nawa with 'k nee and back injuries. Blonde
Bob Marine PFC, was a litter bearer.
F;om Camp Roberts. California, railed
Pvt. Dal Rychter on official business. Dal
was wearing handcuffs- but only on one
arm' the other clinked to the wrist of a
McNeil Island Penitentiary-bound soldier.
Night work- the kind performed without
mattresses- didn't appeal to vet route-
man mechanic Kennie Kemp, so he left
Soli; Solomon's First Avenue Arcade and
joined the roster at Heberling's.
Cpl. Louis Karnofsky
Denver
Distributors in the Denver area are.
looking for a marked increase in busi-
ness as soon as the war ends and eqUIp-
ment is again available. ~n the m~antime
they are doing a good .JOb keepmg old
machines in repair, collecting old ac-
counts and in general getting a gOO?
ready for taking care of the new bUSI-
ness when it comes.
Lu Shulman, Modern Music Co., re-
ports that one of the most popular r~c­
ords to hit the Middl e West for qUIte
some time is He Kissed Her Where She
Sat. Modern Music tried th e record out
on 51) locations and it spun the meter
around in every location ; it seemed like
a revival of the beer barrel days. Modern
is trying to get some of these records. from
Bill Simmons of Los Angeles, who IS the
distributor for them. Shulman recommends
that operators try apd get this record, for
it is a gold mine.
Frank Negri, Modern's salesman, has
just completed a ' trip thru the southern
rOR SALE
2-Jennings Fast Times Free Play ................................ ea. $59.50
2-Rock-Ola 'Bar Boxes A.C ........................................... ea. 22.50
2-Evans Ten Strikes 1 H.D., 1 L. D ................................. ea. 45.00
l-Mills Zephyr, Clean ( no amplifier J.. ................... : .. ea . 35.00
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Mexico City reports that down there you
can buy three pounds of sugar, a pound
of butter, a quart of whisky and a. wife
for $3. We'll bet it's fourth-rate whIskey.
with
KLEERrLO "30"
ELECTRICALLY OPERATED
MECHANICAL PARTS C LEANER
MODEL KS30
$96.50
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CAPITOL MUSIC &; SALES 'CO.
1255 AMES STREET
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A two· star general, returning to camp
one evening, couldn't produce his iden~ifi­
cation. The rookie on guard duty, umm-
pressed, refused to let him pass through
the gates. Finally, the exasperated gener~l
bent forward, pointed to the stars on hIS
shoulders, and bellowed: "Do you know
what these mean?" "Sure," popped the
rookie, "you got two sons in the service."
Less A ccessories, F.O .B. Minneapolis
Want to ' h.uy Rock-Ola Comma ndos, Packard Wall Boxes ,
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part of Wyoming, VIsItmg. operators thru-
out that territory and tellIng them about
the new equipment the company will have
in store for them.
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Tony Piccoli, of Durango, IS !lot WaIt-
ing for his equipment to go to pIeces,. but
is shipping his machines, one at a tI~~"
to Modern Music for complete rehabIh-
tation and in this manner is keeping his
route' up in very good shape.
Al A. Roberts, manager of Wolf S~le!;
Co., has gone to Minneapolis for a fishmg
trip and to meet some of the oth~r Wur-
litzer distributors. From there he IS plan-
ning to go to Chicago, where he will. meet
Wolf Reiwitz. While there, they WIll at-
tend to some business.
Sgt. A. C. Roberts has returned. to
Panama City, Florida, a.fter spendmg
a twenty-one day furlough III Denver.
John R. Burke of Sterling, recently
purchased some equipment from Wolf
Sales as did John Hart of Boulder. John
Pricc~ of Trinidad, also paid the com-
pany a visit.
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Mrs. Wolf Reiwitz is recuperatlllg at
the present time after an illness in the
hospital.
Harry Bowes of the Century M c
Co., has been very busy traveling het,:" n
his offices in Denver, Colorado SprIngs,
Fort Morgan and Greeley, and reports
a rushing bu~iness in all vicinities.
John J. Bonn says that he has instal-
led a considerable number of s~cond-hand
machines in Littleton, Brighton and ' other
outlying districts and also in taverns along
highways leading into Denver. Bonn owns
the Ace High Amusement Co., and he
specializes in amusement equipment for
taverns. He is planning, however, to
erect a new store at 4040 Morrison Road
where he owns an acre of ground and
where his home is located. In this way
his interests will be centered in one lo-
cation. Morrison Road is the popular road
leading to the mountains and there are
many taverns ' between Denver and t~e
town of Morrison where the mountal11
road begins. Bonn says. he will .begin
building as soon as materIals are avaIlable.
James P. Blackwell of the Blackwell
Distributing Co., has just return~d wi~h
his family from spending the wmter 111
Louisiana.
Frances Conrey
DENVER 14, CO LORADO
PAUL A. LAYMON
DISTRIBUTOR