Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1947 April - Page 71
ten column machines which hold 420 packs.
Osborn attended the dinner meeting at
the Leamington Hotel, Oakland, given by
the California Music Operators Association,
in honor of James Gilmore, secretary·man·
ager of CMI, who discussed the public
,
relations program.
at 1337 Mi5si(m St. Hank had expected to
Dan King, III, preraident of Western
resume business last September but the reo
States Distributing Co. · is mighty pleased
construction took much longer than anti·
with the great popularity of the Pace Bells.
cipated; in fact the job is not yet quite ' At Harold's Club, Reno, Pace machines
completed-. The entire third floor will. be
are used exclusively. The new Sonoma Inn,
occupied by an assembly plant. According
in Winnemucca will also feature Pace Bells
to Maser, this will be the first venture of
exclusively. While talking to King, there
its kind on the Coast, but noting the gen·
was a long distance call from Reno; R.
eral trend of other industries to establish
Smith of Harold's Club placed an addi·
bases in the West, he believes it is time to
tional order for 212 Pace machines, which
start an assembly plant for coin·operated
will give Harold's Club considerably over
equipment too. He has been appointed
300.
regional distributor for Buckley precision
Leon "Hi Ho" Silver has been a highly
built Jackpot Bells for the states of Califor·
successful automatic merchandiser for
nia, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho,
years, but since branching into the jobbing
Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Colo·
field he has donned seven· league boots, and
rado.
is really going places. Recently he spent
A. F. Parina, Messrs. Parina & Co.,
three weeks traveling throughout the East
Western distributors for Arthur H. Du· • and Midwest, and made some excellent con·
Grenier products, was pleased to report
nections. He has been appointed Northern
that shipments of the 'C>uGrenier Challen·
California distributor for the entire line '
ger cigarette vendors are being received,
manufactured by Advance Machine Co.;
and he expects to do a lot of traveling in
and he got the national distribution for the
the near future.
Grab All tool. "Hi Ho" had his shop
Walter A. Huber, ' Northern California
equipped to manufacture keys for vending
manager for M. S. Wolf Distributing Co.,
machines, and now carries a complete line
contributed his share of good news, saying
of rebuilt cigarette vendors. He is doing
a big volume business with A.B.T. Chal·
that AMI phonographs are arriving in good
lenger.
volume. Walter is promoting the idea that
it would be beneficial if operators would
Glenn·Rowe Vending Machine Co. inau·
form social groups in their own communi·
gurated a profit·sharing plan for its service·
ties. Of course there is an organization
men. Although established only three
here, and one across the bay but they
weeks ago, it has already proved itself a
mainly have business sessions, and are too
great incentive. Joseph R. Eppler, general
far for operators from other cities to attend
manager of Glenn·Rowe, thinks it is "the
regularly. While it is advisable for opera·
finest endorsement for the Coin Machine
tors to belong to the larger regional groups,
Industry" that Western Union has decided
little gatherings weekly, with the families
to put cigarette vendors into all its offices.
participating, would create a great deal of
Gisela Ney
good will, and a keener understanding of
mutual problems.
D. H. Osborn, Osborn Distributing Co.,
received word from the factory that the first
. Pin game volume is holding to good
carload of Packard phonographs is on the
levels here, despite a general recession in
way, and that Packard is now in volume
most Northwest and national biz. Phono
production. PX cigarette vendors are also
men felt the impact of the slump in varying
starting to arrive, and according to Osborn
degrees, but most of them felt the low con·
the demand is "terrific" for these capacious
sumer interest in music would end after
March tax matters were settled, and na·
tional consumer confidence restored through
a more equitable balance between living
costs and income.
Corporation Counsel A. C. Van Soelen
ruled that there is no prohibition of pin
games near higher institutions of learning.
IS HAPPY TO
The question arose about licensing the
games in a restaurant near Seattle College.
ANNOUNCE
.van Soelen said the term "school" does not
embrace colleges or universities.
N.EW LOW PRICE
Spokane City Auditor Carl Clepper has
announced that the Inland Empire city has
licensed 363 pin ball games this year, a
new high which yielded the city $108,900.
The licenses go at $300 each.
0 .. tile Coast
San Franeiseo
The Coin Machine Industry is bourgeon·
ing forth with real spring·time vigor. With
equipment rolling off the assembly lines,
with many new coin·operated devices being
introduced, a general cheerfulness pervades
the atmosphere.
Fred Neumann, one of the George R:
Murdock Associates, made the following in· '
teresting revelations: Associates has been
appointed national distributor for a new
type Roto speaker; the first shipment of
the new Rock·Ola Play·Master has been
received; the firm has been appointed Cali·
fornia distributor for the Downey·Johnson
Coin Sorter; and last but not least, in the
near future Associates will introduce some·
thing entirely new in the vending machine
field.
Ben Strom, former Rock·Ola factory ser·
vice representative for the 11 Western '
states, has joined Associates' staff. in the
capacity of sales and service representative.
Strom served for two years in the armed
forces, and participated in .both the Euro·
pean and Pacific campaigns. George Ben·
nett has recently returned from an extensive
business trip through the Northwest, while
Charles Merrill surveyed the Southern terri·
tory.
Clem Barceloux, Lake County operator,
recently became a benedict, and Associates,
in conjunction with Rock·Ola factory ,per,
sonnel, made all the arrangements for the
honeymoon itinerary which took the young
couple to Chicago, New York, New Orleans,
many other interesting places, and eventu·
ally home. Fred Neumann remarked with
a chuckle: "Associates is some firm! We
sell anything, service anything, and it looks
as 'if now we have added a travel bureau
to our other activities. But our travel ser·
vice is for honeymooners only."
After an absence of eight months Hank
Maser has returned to his beautifully reo
modeled and much enlarged headquarters
Seattle
DAN KING III
PACE
BELLS
Arcade Equipment
NEW LOW PRICES
5c PACE ...................................................................................................... 5245.00
.. ...................................................................................................... 255.00
10c
...................................................................................................... 265.00
25c
...................................................................................................... 375.00
50c
.................... ,................................................................................. 550.00
1.00
WESTERN STATES DISTRIBUTING CO.
63 Page Street
(MArket 18191
San Francisco, Calif.
RIIY GUNS
or CONSOLES?
-SEE-
PAUL A. LAYMON
DISTRIBUTOR
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
71
fOR
A.PR/L
7947
Osborn attended the dinner meeting at
the Leamington Hotel, Oakland, given by
the California Music Operators Association,
in honor of James Gilmore, secretary·man·
ager of CMI, who discussed the public
,
relations program.
at 1337 Mi5si(m St. Hank had expected to
Dan King, III, preraident of Western
resume business last September but the reo
States Distributing Co. · is mighty pleased
construction took much longer than anti·
with the great popularity of the Pace Bells.
cipated; in fact the job is not yet quite ' At Harold's Club, Reno, Pace machines
completed-. The entire third floor will. be
are used exclusively. The new Sonoma Inn,
occupied by an assembly plant. According
in Winnemucca will also feature Pace Bells
to Maser, this will be the first venture of
exclusively. While talking to King, there
its kind on the Coast, but noting the gen·
was a long distance call from Reno; R.
eral trend of other industries to establish
Smith of Harold's Club placed an addi·
bases in the West, he believes it is time to
tional order for 212 Pace machines, which
start an assembly plant for coin·operated
will give Harold's Club considerably over
equipment too. He has been appointed
300.
regional distributor for Buckley precision
Leon "Hi Ho" Silver has been a highly
built Jackpot Bells for the states of Califor·
successful automatic merchandiser for
nia, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho,
years, but since branching into the jobbing
Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Colo·
field he has donned seven· league boots, and
rado.
is really going places. Recently he spent
A. F. Parina, Messrs. Parina & Co.,
three weeks traveling throughout the East
Western distributors for Arthur H. Du· • and Midwest, and made some excellent con·
Grenier products, was pleased to report
nections. He has been appointed Northern
that shipments of the 'C>uGrenier Challen·
California distributor for the entire line '
ger cigarette vendors are being received,
manufactured by Advance Machine Co.;
and he expects to do a lot of traveling in
and he got the national distribution for the
the near future.
Grab All tool. "Hi Ho" had his shop
Walter A. Huber, ' Northern California
equipped to manufacture keys for vending
manager for M. S. Wolf Distributing Co.,
machines, and now carries a complete line
contributed his share of good news, saying
of rebuilt cigarette vendors. He is doing
a big volume business with A.B.T. Chal·
that AMI phonographs are arriving in good
lenger.
volume. Walter is promoting the idea that
it would be beneficial if operators would
Glenn·Rowe Vending Machine Co. inau·
form social groups in their own communi·
gurated a profit·sharing plan for its service·
ties. Of course there is an organization
men. Although established only three
here, and one across the bay but they
weeks ago, it has already proved itself a
mainly have business sessions, and are too
great incentive. Joseph R. Eppler, general
far for operators from other cities to attend
manager of Glenn·Rowe, thinks it is "the
regularly. While it is advisable for opera·
finest endorsement for the Coin Machine
tors to belong to the larger regional groups,
Industry" that Western Union has decided
little gatherings weekly, with the families
to put cigarette vendors into all its offices.
participating, would create a great deal of
Gisela Ney
good will, and a keener understanding of
mutual problems.
D. H. Osborn, Osborn Distributing Co.,
received word from the factory that the first
. Pin game volume is holding to good
carload of Packard phonographs is on the
levels here, despite a general recession in
way, and that Packard is now in volume
most Northwest and national biz. Phono
production. PX cigarette vendors are also
men felt the impact of the slump in varying
starting to arrive, and according to Osborn
degrees, but most of them felt the low con·
the demand is "terrific" for these capacious
sumer interest in music would end after
March tax matters were settled, and na·
tional consumer confidence restored through
a more equitable balance between living
costs and income.
Corporation Counsel A. C. Van Soelen
ruled that there is no prohibition of pin
games near higher institutions of learning.
IS HAPPY TO
The question arose about licensing the
games in a restaurant near Seattle College.
ANNOUNCE
.van Soelen said the term "school" does not
embrace colleges or universities.
N.EW LOW PRICE
Spokane City Auditor Carl Clepper has
announced that the Inland Empire city has
licensed 363 pin ball games this year, a
new high which yielded the city $108,900.
The licenses go at $300 each.
0 .. tile Coast
San Franeiseo
The Coin Machine Industry is bourgeon·
ing forth with real spring·time vigor. With
equipment rolling off the assembly lines,
with many new coin·operated devices being
introduced, a general cheerfulness pervades
the atmosphere.
Fred Neumann, one of the George R:
Murdock Associates, made the following in· '
teresting revelations: Associates has been
appointed national distributor for a new
type Roto speaker; the first shipment of
the new Rock·Ola Play·Master has been
received; the firm has been appointed Cali·
fornia distributor for the Downey·Johnson
Coin Sorter; and last but not least, in the
near future Associates will introduce some·
thing entirely new in the vending machine
field.
Ben Strom, former Rock·Ola factory ser·
vice representative for the 11 Western '
states, has joined Associates' staff. in the
capacity of sales and service representative.
Strom served for two years in the armed
forces, and participated in .both the Euro·
pean and Pacific campaigns. George Ben·
nett has recently returned from an extensive
business trip through the Northwest, while
Charles Merrill surveyed the Southern terri·
tory.
Clem Barceloux, Lake County operator,
recently became a benedict, and Associates,
in conjunction with Rock·Ola factory ,per,
sonnel, made all the arrangements for the
honeymoon itinerary which took the young
couple to Chicago, New York, New Orleans,
many other interesting places, and eventu·
ally home. Fred Neumann remarked with
a chuckle: "Associates is some firm! We
sell anything, service anything, and it looks
as 'if now we have added a travel bureau
to our other activities. But our travel ser·
vice is for honeymooners only."
After an absence of eight months Hank
Maser has returned to his beautifully reo
modeled and much enlarged headquarters
Seattle
DAN KING III
PACE
BELLS
Arcade Equipment
NEW LOW PRICES
5c PACE ...................................................................................................... 5245.00
.. ...................................................................................................... 255.00
10c
...................................................................................................... 265.00
25c
...................................................................................................... 375.00
50c
.................... ,................................................................................. 550.00
1.00
WESTERN STATES DISTRIBUTING CO.
63 Page Street
(MArket 18191
San Francisco, Calif.
RIIY GUNS
or CONSOLES?
-SEE-
PAUL A. LAYMON
DISTRIBUTOR
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
71
fOR
A.PR/L
7947
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