Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1945 November - Page 63
SHOOT TBE -ARTENDER
Cc111Je,-Jic1t
FOR
CHICKEN SAM, JAP AND
HITLER SEEBURG RADIO GUNS
Colorful, flashy, attractive, appealing and
loaded with plenty of action. Bartender's
head nods as he turns around. Will double
the take and give your machines brand new
earning power. Can be installed on location
in a few minutes.
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY!
PRICE:
$16.75
IN LOTS OF 5 OR MORE
$14.75
1 /J
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
64
FOlt
NOVEMBER
1945
Deposit with Orders
SICKING DISTRIBUTlNG CO.
(SUCCESSORS TO SOUTHWESTERN VENDING MACHINE CO.I
2831-33-35 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles 6, Calif.
ROchester 0104
OVER 50 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE -:- ESTABLISHED 1895
13th for a confab at the Aireon plant in
Kansas City and was due back on the 24th.
Jimmie Rutter's daughter can be thank-
ful she has dutiful parents. When she
• went broke in San Francisco she airmailed
pappy the sad news. Jimmie and the Mis-
sus jumped in the car and made it north
just as daughter was about to blow her
last fifty cents.
Ray Eberts is back from Chicago, where
he visited relatives and the Celtic Bar in
the Sherman to pick up trade gossip.
Charlie Robinson took Bill Wolf for a
nice piece of change at a World Series
game while the two were in the Windy
City.
Recent visitor.$ in town, and not reported
for some little time, included: C. H. Rob-
son, Santa Monica; George Landier and
Johnny Glober, Long Beach; Charles Ped-
dicord, Anaheim; Bert Polin, San Luis
Obispo; D. D. Patton, Turlock; Abe Cur-
tis, Riverside, and Ed Sullivan, Oceanside.
San Francisco
Hopes for getting new equipment in the
near future have dimmed considerably due
to the general upset conditions during this
reconversion period; consequently, parts,
service and reconditioning departments are
assuming constantly increasing importance.
Capable help is at a premium and happy is
the firm that manages to augment its serv-
ice staff with experienced mechanics and
engineers. Johnny Ruggiero, manager of
Jack R. Moore Co.'s San Francisco branch,
was pleased to report that "Bud" Willis,
who prior to the war had been for many
years with the organization, has returned
to the Jack R. Moore Co., "after doing his
duty with the Merchant Marine.'' Another
returned war veteran is Bill Shank, who,
according to Johnny, "had a wealth of ex-
perience with Seeburg Symphonola prior
to the war, to which the added experience
in radar while serving with the U. S. Sig-
nal Corps, which should be of inestimable
value. Our service department consists
now of a crew of five men, which places
us in an enviable position.''
We also heard from several distributors
that servicemen display a remarkable in-
terest in the coin machine industry. Johnny
said that inquires and applications are
pour;ng in from both those already re-
turned and from those still somewhere in
the Pacific islands. Many wish to learn
the business and take employment, while
others wish to become outright operators.
Considering all these encouraging factors
Johnny is convinced that the coin machine
industry has a great future and will really
hit its stride as soon as new equipment
becomes available. Jack R. Moore Co.
still has an excellent assortment of used,
reconditioned machines of every type, ex-
cept phonographs, which are practically
unobtainable.
While at Johnny's, M. M. Brown and
Bill Simpson stopped by, from San Fran-
cisco Wired Music Co., which is reputed
to have one of the finest studios in the
city.
E. M. Dutton of Viking Specialty Co.,
Inc., distributor of Northwestern De Luxe
Vendors, stated that there is tremendous
response to the firm's recently announced
policy in THE Corn MACHINE REVIEW that
orders will be accepted for future delivery
and will be filled according to priority,
operators having the privilege to change
or cancel the orders prior to actual deliv-
ery. Judging from the number of orders
received, Viking Specialty is looking for-
ward to a big volume of business. There
are extensive plans for remodeling the
Viking building and the program will get
under way as soon as labor and building
material becomes procurable.
While at Viking we had the pleasure of
meeting France~ Shandy, who has the dis-
tinction of ·being the first woman operator
on the Coast. Mrs. Shandy has been in
the business for oven ten years and spe-
cializes in stamp machines. Her opera-
tions extend up and down the Coast. With
two assistants she services this territory.
Machines at the more distant points are
leased.
George R. Murdock, head of Associates,
Rock-Ola distributor, recently returned
from a visit to the Rock-Ola factory. Mur-
dock said that six weeks ago things looked
pretty encouraging but then the situation
started to deteriorate. He was noncom-
mittal about when the new Rock-Ola might
be expected. In the meantime Associates'
excellent service department functions ad-
mirably, and though Associates had been
formed only a few months ago, they al-
ready have a large, steady following. The
many out-of-town operators, mentioned in
previous issues, come in regularly when in
need of parts. Added to these had been
recently: Gust Kuns, San Jose; Floyd
Knudsen, Santa Cruz; Mr. and Mrs. Die-
son and Wayne Gettis, also from Santa
Cruz.
E. George Bennett, partner in Associ-
ates, said that in addition to the service
and reconditioning departments there is
also a manufacturing plant maintained
where amplifiers are being built for meas-
ured music. They are also starting now
on a new and improved Universal ampli-
fier.
Murdock and Bennett are leaving for
the Northwest to confer with Rock-Ola
distributors in that territory. They are:
Nat Schoen, Schoen Enterprises, Portland;
George Schnabel, Puget Sound Novelty
Co., and Art Rude for Spokane.
Hank and Mary Maser, of H. R. Maser
Music Co., are still in Illinois. Hank
phoned his manager, J. D. Cox, from Rock
Island, Ill., that they expect to start on
their homeward trek sometime after the
15th, and will have some really interesting
revelations to make then.
M. A. Pollard, former Rock-Ola distrib-
utor, left for the East last week, and will
probably stay there for the remainder of
the month.
Ernie Brennan, San Francisco manager
of General Music Co., will leave within the
next few days, for Los Angeles to visit Bud
Parr, owner of the firm, who was recently
injured in an automobile accident. From
Los Angeles Ernie will leave for the East
to look over the situation at the factory of
(See SAN FRANCISCO, Page 66)
Sparkling NEW Film Subiec:ts
Fresh from the Lab.
-
SEE--
PAUL A. LAYMON
DISTRIBUTOR
https://elibrary.arcade-museum.com
Cc111Je,-Jic1t
FOR
CHICKEN SAM, JAP AND
HITLER SEEBURG RADIO GUNS
Colorful, flashy, attractive, appealing and
loaded with plenty of action. Bartender's
head nods as he turns around. Will double
the take and give your machines brand new
earning power. Can be installed on location
in a few minutes.
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY!
PRICE:
$16.75
IN LOTS OF 5 OR MORE
$14.75
1 /J
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
64
FOlt
NOVEMBER
1945
Deposit with Orders
SICKING DISTRIBUTlNG CO.
(SUCCESSORS TO SOUTHWESTERN VENDING MACHINE CO.I
2831-33-35 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles 6, Calif.
ROchester 0104
OVER 50 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE -:- ESTABLISHED 1895
13th for a confab at the Aireon plant in
Kansas City and was due back on the 24th.
Jimmie Rutter's daughter can be thank-
ful she has dutiful parents. When she
• went broke in San Francisco she airmailed
pappy the sad news. Jimmie and the Mis-
sus jumped in the car and made it north
just as daughter was about to blow her
last fifty cents.
Ray Eberts is back from Chicago, where
he visited relatives and the Celtic Bar in
the Sherman to pick up trade gossip.
Charlie Robinson took Bill Wolf for a
nice piece of change at a World Series
game while the two were in the Windy
City.
Recent visitor.$ in town, and not reported
for some little time, included: C. H. Rob-
son, Santa Monica; George Landier and
Johnny Glober, Long Beach; Charles Ped-
dicord, Anaheim; Bert Polin, San Luis
Obispo; D. D. Patton, Turlock; Abe Cur-
tis, Riverside, and Ed Sullivan, Oceanside.
San Francisco
Hopes for getting new equipment in the
near future have dimmed considerably due
to the general upset conditions during this
reconversion period; consequently, parts,
service and reconditioning departments are
assuming constantly increasing importance.
Capable help is at a premium and happy is
the firm that manages to augment its serv-
ice staff with experienced mechanics and
engineers. Johnny Ruggiero, manager of
Jack R. Moore Co.'s San Francisco branch,
was pleased to report that "Bud" Willis,
who prior to the war had been for many
years with the organization, has returned
to the Jack R. Moore Co., "after doing his
duty with the Merchant Marine.'' Another
returned war veteran is Bill Shank, who,
according to Johnny, "had a wealth of ex-
perience with Seeburg Symphonola prior
to the war, to which the added experience
in radar while serving with the U. S. Sig-
nal Corps, which should be of inestimable
value. Our service department consists
now of a crew of five men, which places
us in an enviable position.''
We also heard from several distributors
that servicemen display a remarkable in-
terest in the coin machine industry. Johnny
said that inquires and applications are
pour;ng in from both those already re-
turned and from those still somewhere in
the Pacific islands. Many wish to learn
the business and take employment, while
others wish to become outright operators.
Considering all these encouraging factors
Johnny is convinced that the coin machine
industry has a great future and will really
hit its stride as soon as new equipment
becomes available. Jack R. Moore Co.
still has an excellent assortment of used,
reconditioned machines of every type, ex-
cept phonographs, which are practically
unobtainable.
While at Johnny's, M. M. Brown and
Bill Simpson stopped by, from San Fran-
cisco Wired Music Co., which is reputed
to have one of the finest studios in the
city.
E. M. Dutton of Viking Specialty Co.,
Inc., distributor of Northwestern De Luxe
Vendors, stated that there is tremendous
response to the firm's recently announced
policy in THE Corn MACHINE REVIEW that
orders will be accepted for future delivery
and will be filled according to priority,
operators having the privilege to change
or cancel the orders prior to actual deliv-
ery. Judging from the number of orders
received, Viking Specialty is looking for-
ward to a big volume of business. There
are extensive plans for remodeling the
Viking building and the program will get
under way as soon as labor and building
material becomes procurable.
While at Viking we had the pleasure of
meeting France~ Shandy, who has the dis-
tinction of ·being the first woman operator
on the Coast. Mrs. Shandy has been in
the business for oven ten years and spe-
cializes in stamp machines. Her opera-
tions extend up and down the Coast. With
two assistants she services this territory.
Machines at the more distant points are
leased.
George R. Murdock, head of Associates,
Rock-Ola distributor, recently returned
from a visit to the Rock-Ola factory. Mur-
dock said that six weeks ago things looked
pretty encouraging but then the situation
started to deteriorate. He was noncom-
mittal about when the new Rock-Ola might
be expected. In the meantime Associates'
excellent service department functions ad-
mirably, and though Associates had been
formed only a few months ago, they al-
ready have a large, steady following. The
many out-of-town operators, mentioned in
previous issues, come in regularly when in
need of parts. Added to these had been
recently: Gust Kuns, San Jose; Floyd
Knudsen, Santa Cruz; Mr. and Mrs. Die-
son and Wayne Gettis, also from Santa
Cruz.
E. George Bennett, partner in Associ-
ates, said that in addition to the service
and reconditioning departments there is
also a manufacturing plant maintained
where amplifiers are being built for meas-
ured music. They are also starting now
on a new and improved Universal ampli-
fier.
Murdock and Bennett are leaving for
the Northwest to confer with Rock-Ola
distributors in that territory. They are:
Nat Schoen, Schoen Enterprises, Portland;
George Schnabel, Puget Sound Novelty
Co., and Art Rude for Spokane.
Hank and Mary Maser, of H. R. Maser
Music Co., are still in Illinois. Hank
phoned his manager, J. D. Cox, from Rock
Island, Ill., that they expect to start on
their homeward trek sometime after the
15th, and will have some really interesting
revelations to make then.
M. A. Pollard, former Rock-Ola distrib-
utor, left for the East last week, and will
probably stay there for the remainder of
the month.
Ernie Brennan, San Francisco manager
of General Music Co., will leave within the
next few days, for Los Angeles to visit Bud
Parr, owner of the firm, who was recently
injured in an automobile accident. From
Los Angeles Ernie will leave for the East
to look over the situation at the factory of
(See SAN FRANCISCO, Page 66)
Sparkling NEW Film Subiec:ts
Fresh from the Lab.
-
SEE--
PAUL A. LAYMON
DISTRIBUTOR
https://elibrary.arcade-museum.com
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