Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

good manufacturers who are well known
to the trade.
Bradshaw said that business was picking
up and as he is still short of help he
usually works around 18 hours a day in
order to catch up. He expects to overcome
this condition as soon as several of his
former employees get out of the Army. He
has been trying to hold the jobs open for
them. He said he was looking for lots of
new merchandise within the next few
weeks.
CORRECTION APRIL NEWS LETTER
In the April news letter published in the
COIN MACHINE REVIEW, I was in error in
referring to the Century Music Co. of
Denver as an "affiliate" of the Wolf Sales
Co. I now understand from A. A. Roberts
of Wolf Sales Co. that the Century Music
- Co. is in no way connected with their or·
ganization as they sold it more than three
years ago and now have no interest in the
Century Music Co.
'#'rance& Conrey
Portland
(The following malerial arrived foo Iale for
publication in the last issue, and is reproduced
herewith to bring coin men up-to-dale on do-
ings in and around Portland.)
The sun is beginning to shine again in
this area, along coin machine row, as it
probably is all over this butter shy nation.
Probably the most important local news of
the month is that the guy who is writing
this nonsense (Fritz Hall), having been
out of the operating business since shortly
after the start of the war, is now one of the
largest operators of brand new post war
phonographs in the state (as of this
writing.) He is the proud possessor of one
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DISTRIBUTOR
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Los Angeles 15
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Badger Sales Co.
Badger Novelty CO.
1612 W. PICO BLVD.
LOS ANGELES 15. CALIFORNIA
All Phones: DR. 4326
2546' NORTH 30th STREET
MILWAUKEE 10, WISCONSIN
All Phones: KIL. 3030
(1) new Seeburg, thanks to Jack R. Moore,
who has made good his promise to operators
at his January party, that he would deliver
one (l) to each who placed an order, in
March. (Great oaks from little acorns
grow.) Anyhow, it is a swell elegant·look·
ing and sounding machine and probably
lots of guys, like the writer, are patting
Jack and J. P. Seeburg on the back, right
now. We understand he got a couple of
carloads of same, including a few wall
boxes, for rationing purposes, and that now
the steel strike is over they will probably
continue to be rolling unless the Russians
take over.
Dan Huguenin, Jack R. Moore Co. sales
manager, reports that their new Seattle
manager is George G. Goss. Dan reports
that games are coming in much better but
not quite fast enough. Helen and Eddie
Cusson, Jack's right hand man and woman,
have just returned from a two weeks' sec·
ond honeymoon, and Helen is looking fine.
Stopped in to see Keith Payne the other
day at his new Wurlitzer Clark Distribut-
ing Co. headquarters at N. W. 16th and
Lovejoy Streets, but his office girl advised
that he was out on the road diligently cover-
ing his territory, as usual. (Peeked in the
back room and saw several crates bearing
the name "Wurlitzer.") Keith, by the way,
has just about the first new Mercury out
here, in which to drive, covering his terri-
tory. Wish we knew the secret of his suc-
cess. From all reports he is working it,
overtime. H e recently returned from a
Hying trip to San Francisco for a confer-
ence with the Clark boys and found that
an automobile had torn out practically the
entire front of his new office, ending up
parked in the middle of his show room.
Discouraging, what?
Whal does it cost
to fall off the wagon ?
In fhis case it was a
thousand dollars for
Jack Gutshall , Los
Angeles, is handing
Bill Simmons a check
for that amount. Jack
had only two days to
go on the bet but a
bottle Rooted by and
Jack took a pot shot
at it. Wham! A thou-
sand dollar mistake!
Lou Dunis of Portland Amusement is, we
hear, making deliveries of new Packard
boxes.
Vern Raw, of Vern Raw Enterprises of
Seaside makes the statement that he is one
step ahead of the bill collectors, which
however we personally doubt_ Understand
that in addition to his other enterprises he
is the new owner of the large building at
the end of the Prom which houses a swim-
ming pool and bath houses as well as a
number of stores. An enterprising young
man, Vern is. One of these days Seaside
COIN'
will change its name to Rawtown.
MACHIHE
#'rit!5 Hall R~VIEW
Seattle
This is a strike story that never made
the headlines; in fact, it didn't even re-
ceive mention in any newspaper or maga-
zine. But it is a story that thrusts deep
into the very heart of the post-war operat-
ing era, and from this tale hangs a moral
as far-reaching as Jimmy Durante's sch noz-
zola.
A group of local operators, after exam-
ining the price tags of new games, banded
together and made an unsilent vow that
they ~ould not buy any new equipment.
"$600' to $800 for a new game?" they
berated the jobber. " Not us."
So they continued to operate their old
clunks and to make a fair margin of profit.
All was quiet on the Northwestern front.
Then in December, two ex-merchant
marinemen, H. A. Christensen, and Morrie
Dickinson, entered the picture. Morrie, who
owned a small route, sold to "Chris" and
then accepted Chris' offer to join him as
mechanic-servicer.
After surveying some of Seattle's anti-
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1946