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celsior. Immediate plans include-acquir-
ing a good stock pile, expanding the staff,
compiling a direct mailing list and inviting
operators to drop in and get acquainted.
Johnny Ruggiero, manager of Jack R.
Moore Co., Seeburg distributor, said: "De-
liveries are gaining momentum. We have
sampled every established account and we
are making deliveries daily of the new See-
burg phonographs." Johnny further in-
formed us that two new consoles by Bally
are expected pretty -soon. New~st addition
to the Moore staff is Don Hess who is in
full charge of the parts department. Don
Hess was recently released from the Air
Corps where he held the rank of Captain.
Johnny is just back from a very nice va-
cation at Palm Springs where he was the
guest of Jack Moore who has leased a
sumptuous house there.
After spending several years with the
armed forces, Ed Heinle is back with
Golden Gate Novelty Co. He is in charge
of exports and outside sales.
E. M. (Prince) Dutton, Viking Specialty
Co., ,I nc., made a flying trip to Chicago to
attend the Northwestern conference.
Advance Automatic Sales Co., has on
display some of the new Keeney Super Bell
games, which is their franchised line for
the Northwest area. Al Meyers, manager,
stated that they have a "tremendous back-
log of orders." Keeping in step with the
general trend for expansion, Advance aug-
mented its staff with another shop me-
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chanic, a shipping clerk and a salesman.
MACHINE Extensive improvement of the premises is
• E",EW also planned.
Howard Pretzel from Chicago, vice presi-
dent of C.M.A.C., in company with Bill
Moller, San Francisco manager, attended
the M. S. Wolf Distributing Co.'s AMI
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Frank Marty, San Jose operator, and his
glamorous blonde bride, Dorothy, were in
the city. Dorothy takes an active interest
in the business, assisting in the office. The
Martys were quite elated, having just pur-
chased one of the new 1946 phonographs.
Frank Marty said: "It's in the back of our
car. We can hardly wait to get home with
it."
Roe M. Dodge, well known San Francisco
operator, passed away recently. His widow
sold the music route to Jack and Sam
Weiner, Jr. Mrs. Dodge also sold her home
and will move down the peninsula.
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Gisela Ney
Denver
The Jones Distributing Co., exclusive dis-
tributors for J . P. Seeburg Corp., has
opened a new store at 1454 Welton St. and
will handle complete parts and service for
Seeburg. The company also distributes
Bally Manufacturing Co. and O. D. Jen-
nings Co. machines.
The Denver store is a branch of Jones
Distributing Co. with headquarters at Salt
Lake City, Utah. Jones operates the Salt
Lake office and W. H. Erskine is manager
of the Denver branch. Roger Taye is field
representative for the Denver territory.
Erskine said that the company was al-
ready doing a big business with the new
Seeburg Model "146." Since starting in
Denver the company has remodeled and
redecorated their store building and they
believe they have adequate space for their
operations .
Dan J. Donohue, District Manager for
Seeburg was in Denver in April. He has
the territory extendIng from Denver to
the West Coast.
Modern ' Distributing Co. had its showing
of the new model 1422 Rock-Ola Phono-
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WILLIAMSON DISTRIBUTING ' CO.
EXCf USIVE EVANS DISTRIBUTOR FOR
NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA
1220 Kay Street. Sacramento. California
graph in its conference room at 1810 Wel-
ton St. during the week beginning March
12.
Both Lu Shulman and Leo Negri were
kept busy all week long explaining the
advantages of the Phonograph of Tomorrow
to operators who came from all parts of
Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico.
Modern Distributing believes that it has
the most beautiful display room in the
entire West. It formerly was the private
banquet room of the Adams Hotel. The
walls are lavishly paneled with decorative
dark oak carved in uniform designs. Four
heavy carved oak beams across the ceiling
add to the general effect of strength and
permanence.
At the rear of the room is a stained
glass window, which occupies almost the
entire wall space, with Dutch landscape and
mill design in colors. A private bar is built
in one corner at the rear of the room.
The floor space is fully carpeted and fur-
nished with chairs and divan.
A striking stage effect is accomplished
by a raised dais, and a crimson satin cur-
tain affords a most effective background
for the Rock-Ola machine.
This sales room creates such a restful
atmosphere that all the local operators have
made .it their meeting room.
After the showing, Leo Negri left for a
two weeks' trip to contact all operators
who were unable to come to Denver to see
the new Rock-Ola Phonograph.
Wolf Reiwitz is out in California, spend-
ing two weeks on the Coast, in San Fran·
cisco and Los Angeles, visiting. En route
home he will stop several days at both of
the company's offices at Phoenix and EI
Paso. He spent several days at the Salt
Lake City office en route to California.
A. C. Rober1s, who has been in Salt Lake
City for several weeks, accompanied Rei-
witz to California.
A. A. Roberts went over to Omaha as a
guest of Central Distributing Co., to attend
a dinner which they were having for Wur-
litzer operators. He reports that the en-
thusiasm shown by operators in Central
Distributing's territory, for the new Wur-
litzer model 1015, was equal to that of
operators in the Denver territory.
Wolf Sales Co. has added a number of
new employees. Charles Y. Webb has joined
as a phonograph service instructor. Paul
Hamilton, Russell C. Fenton, Morton Ech-
stin and John Tribelborn have all been
added to the staff in various capacities.
Frank Negri has been very busy out
on the territory and has spent very little
time recently at the main office.
A. A. Roberts reports that all branch
offices of Wolf Sales Co., located at Phoe-
nix, Salt Lake City and EI Paso, have
been completed and are now open and
doing business.
W. R. Walker of the Walker Music Co.
is planning to take a trip next week to
the Southwest. He will visit Los Angeles,
San Francisco and Portland-a combined
pleasure and business trip-mainly for
pleasure. Mrs. Walker will accompany him.
However, Walker says he will make some
purchases while away-if anything is avail-
able.
During Walker's absence, his two able
assistants will carryon the business. One
of these has been with Walker some 13
years. The other, Neal Tait, has come in
since the war.
Gibson Bradshaw, of the Denver Dis-
tributing Co., recently returned from a
combined business and pleasure trip to
Chicago and New York. Mrs. Bradshaw
accompanied him, and Bradshaw says ther
were royally entertained by the various
companies, including a Broadway show in
New York. He also lined up with some