Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1947 July - Page 99
of a believe-it-or-not record_, Vic has twin
sons (Ray and Don) who were both in
the AAF during the war_ Both were pilots
of B-29 bombers, one in the western
theater and the other in the eastern thea-
ter_ Now, they both have music machine
routes of their own-Ray at Mill's City
and Don at Tillamook_
Dan Huguenin is in San Francisco on
business for the Jack R. Moore Co. Mrs.
Cusson wishes the days were longer, most
people wish the days were shorter. The
new Bally Hi-Boys are moving fast and
the Jack R. Moore Co. is taking orders
for them at the present time.
Clayton Ballard attended the Aireon
showing at Western Distributors and after-
wards went to Seattle for the showing in
that city.
Western Distributors have the new bowl-
ing game Strikes 'N' Spares on display.
Several inquiries have been received by
A. M. Moss from other cities about the
veterans program. In these letters they
want to know how to go about starting
the same program in their city and how
successful it has been here. Callers at
M. S. Wolf Distributing Co. include Harold
Rouse of Goldendale, Allen Dibble of Kelso,
Ray Richards of Reedsport.
Frank Sandberg, of the Mills Sales Co.,
unveiled the new Mills Constellation at
a showing here recently. A record crowd
attended and many nice comments on the
new Constellation were heard. Lunch and
refreshments' were served which rounded
out the showing. Frank informs us that a
shipment of Constellations is expected soon.
Among those attending the showing were:
Victor David, Bill Goebel, Vern Rau,
John Welch, A. L. Cline, Ed Day, Art
Brant, Leo Jones, Asa Goddard, Tommy
Siddon, T. J. Dolan, Loren Cain and many
others.
At Random - Mrs. Cusson, ~ business
woman . . . Claytdn Ballard gets around
. . . A Portland minister who condones
use of coin machines at church activities
but outside the church condemns these same
machines . . . Nice get together occasions,
these phonograph showings . . . Thirty-
eight operators and sons of operators of
Portland are veterans of the last war . . .
If there were as much cooperation between
operators as there is among distributors
. . . Then there is the man who carries a
parking ticket with him and leaves it
under the windshield wiper after parking
by a meter ... Coin Row, well represented
at Portland Meadows lately.
Gilbert J. Ackels
Los Angeles
Sam Jaffe, one of the kingpins of L. A.
coin operating, has just retllrned from the
Far East with some interesting info. Jaffe
introduced pin games and phonographs to
the Far East and had a lucrative operation
in full swing when the Japs jumped.
"There were &,000 to 4,000 games in the
Philippines and a considerable number in
China," Jaffe said, "but the Japs must
have destroyed them all because they're
nowhere to be found .
"One of the most sensational games ever
to hit Shanghai was the pin table litterbug.
Ten thousand ·people blocked traffic and
lined the streets to watch it in operation.
When we were operating in China, we
didn't have any trouble from vandalism or
slugs because help was so cheap we could
afford to have one man watch each ma-
chine. The cost was 25 cents per month
in America!! money or services could be
paid by' candy mints."
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GOLDEN
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Complete stock ' 0 f all ·makes and types of coin-operated equipment,
featuring Chicago Coin's Play Boy, Exhibit's Cross Fire, Marvel's
L ightning, Bally's Rocket, Entry and Special Entry, Williams' Cy-
clone, Keeney's Hot Tip, United's Ha'Yana.
Special attention to th e export trade .
Wire c,ol/ect. phone MArket 3967 collect. or come In to
GOLDEN GATE NOVELTY CO.
701 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco 2, Calif,
How does the Far East look as a poten-
tial market for export trade? Right now,
not so good. In a couple of years-very
promising. "Because of inflation and un-
. settled conditions, people are most con-
cerned with how to exist and where to live,
so th.ey ~on't give any thought to coin
machmes.
Quickies on the Cuff-Art Weiss, back
from his Salt Lake City vacash. . . . A
couple of baby girls to a couple of well-
known operators: Billy Wulf and Johnny
Nelson . . . . Operator Joe Selan is in the
hospital recuperating from a heart ailment.
Warren Taylor of Mills Sales in town
recently was displaying a plaque given him
by United Airlines for having flown 100,-
000 miles-all west of the Rockies. He is
said to be the only man in the Industry
with that record. Warren gave THE RE-
VIEW some off-the-record figures about the
business Mills Sales expects this year . . .
and we were impressed. But, of course, in
the Mills Constellation phonograph, Mills
Bells, Photomatic and RCA-Victor coin
radio the firm has some of the finest equip-
ment on the market.
Speaking of flying, one of the most con-
firmed birdmen in the Industry is Ken
Brown, of Coinmatic Distributors. Ken is
making his former hobby a profitable pro-
fession . He has organized Amphibian Air
Transport. Inc., which flys passengers in
30 minutes from Burbank Airport direct to
Avalon Bay, Catalina Island, or 17 minutes
from Long Beach Municipal Airport. His
line is carrying several hundred passengers
a week.
I
The kind of news we like to hear and
pass on to our readers came the other day
from Jack Dolan, of Coin Craft, ' manufac-
turers of a mirrored cabinet. Jack ran an
advertisement in THE REVIEW about his
cabinet and sold 50. "Best money we
ever spent," Jack enthused. "We were
swamped with inquiries and orders. We
got response from all over the country, and
one distributor in Venezuela made us a
cash-on-the-barrel-head offer without even
seeing the machine."
Bill Leuenhagen's music bar continues to
be the favorite meeting place of the town's
most successful music operators. Bill has
taken on several more labels and is now
able to offer operators practically any in-
dependent label that produces music suit-
able for automatic phonographs. His col-
lection and his service is unique along
Coin Row .
Grading has begun' on the new addition
to the Shipman Manufacturing plant.
Meanwhile the company is turning out
Spin-It's at the rate of 150 a day.
Bud Parr of Solo tone is getting a lot of
pleasure out of his ranch in Ventura
County. It's quite a place. And covered
with wild life. The other morning he
counted 27 deer which had invited them-
selves to breakfast with his horses.
Gillespie Games, of Long Beach, is said
to be tooling up for a counter game
called Penny Lag, which is expected to be
on . the market' in about a month. Same
company expects to be in production with
its roll down game, Tit Tat Toe, in about
two months. Homer Gillespie has been in
Chicago attending to business connected
with the roll down game.
Fred Gaunt, of General Music, reports
that operators from near and far are tell-
ing him that the new Buckley Track Odds
are even more profitable to operate than
had been claimed. "Experience is the
surest proof," says Fred, "of any game.
Track Odds long has been recognized as
the only seven-coin race horse console that
will stand up year after year and out-earn
all other coin machines."
Nels Nelson, who is displaying Strikes
-
We Specialize- .
SLOT MACHINES
Repair
Convert
,
Refinish
VEST POCKETS
FACTORY METHOD REFINISHING
Quick pickup and delivery service .
Call Cltras 2·2261
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1212 E. Colorado
Glendale 5, Cal. _
(Rear Entrance'
I
COIN
MACHIHE
REVIEW
99
FOR
JULY
1947
sons (Ray and Don) who were both in
the AAF during the war_ Both were pilots
of B-29 bombers, one in the western
theater and the other in the eastern thea-
ter_ Now, they both have music machine
routes of their own-Ray at Mill's City
and Don at Tillamook_
Dan Huguenin is in San Francisco on
business for the Jack R. Moore Co. Mrs.
Cusson wishes the days were longer, most
people wish the days were shorter. The
new Bally Hi-Boys are moving fast and
the Jack R. Moore Co. is taking orders
for them at the present time.
Clayton Ballard attended the Aireon
showing at Western Distributors and after-
wards went to Seattle for the showing in
that city.
Western Distributors have the new bowl-
ing game Strikes 'N' Spares on display.
Several inquiries have been received by
A. M. Moss from other cities about the
veterans program. In these letters they
want to know how to go about starting
the same program in their city and how
successful it has been here. Callers at
M. S. Wolf Distributing Co. include Harold
Rouse of Goldendale, Allen Dibble of Kelso,
Ray Richards of Reedsport.
Frank Sandberg, of the Mills Sales Co.,
unveiled the new Mills Constellation at
a showing here recently. A record crowd
attended and many nice comments on the
new Constellation were heard. Lunch and
refreshments' were served which rounded
out the showing. Frank informs us that a
shipment of Constellations is expected soon.
Among those attending the showing were:
Victor David, Bill Goebel, Vern Rau,
John Welch, A. L. Cline, Ed Day, Art
Brant, Leo Jones, Asa Goddard, Tommy
Siddon, T. J. Dolan, Loren Cain and many
others.
At Random - Mrs. Cusson, ~ business
woman . . . Claytdn Ballard gets around
. . . A Portland minister who condones
use of coin machines at church activities
but outside the church condemns these same
machines . . . Nice get together occasions,
these phonograph showings . . . Thirty-
eight operators and sons of operators of
Portland are veterans of the last war . . .
If there were as much cooperation between
operators as there is among distributors
. . . Then there is the man who carries a
parking ticket with him and leaves it
under the windshield wiper after parking
by a meter ... Coin Row, well represented
at Portland Meadows lately.
Gilbert J. Ackels
Los Angeles
Sam Jaffe, one of the kingpins of L. A.
coin operating, has just retllrned from the
Far East with some interesting info. Jaffe
introduced pin games and phonographs to
the Far East and had a lucrative operation
in full swing when the Japs jumped.
"There were &,000 to 4,000 games in the
Philippines and a considerable number in
China," Jaffe said, "but the Japs must
have destroyed them all because they're
nowhere to be found .
"One of the most sensational games ever
to hit Shanghai was the pin table litterbug.
Ten thousand ·people blocked traffic and
lined the streets to watch it in operation.
When we were operating in China, we
didn't have any trouble from vandalism or
slugs because help was so cheap we could
afford to have one man watch each ma-
chine. The cost was 25 cents per month
in America!! money or services could be
paid by' candy mints."
'lItSan*l~
THE GOLDEN GATE OPENS WIDE
AT
"6
~~ i;ii1
III
c
t,o,?-;\:*,
c.!) 10tlD:
,
GOLDEN
GATE
NOVELTY
COMPANY
La
1010
n
Complete stock ' 0 f all ·makes and types of coin-operated equipment,
featuring Chicago Coin's Play Boy, Exhibit's Cross Fire, Marvel's
L ightning, Bally's Rocket, Entry and Special Entry, Williams' Cy-
clone, Keeney's Hot Tip, United's Ha'Yana.
Special attention to th e export trade .
Wire c,ol/ect. phone MArket 3967 collect. or come In to
GOLDEN GATE NOVELTY CO.
701 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco 2, Calif,
How does the Far East look as a poten-
tial market for export trade? Right now,
not so good. In a couple of years-very
promising. "Because of inflation and un-
. settled conditions, people are most con-
cerned with how to exist and where to live,
so th.ey ~on't give any thought to coin
machmes.
Quickies on the Cuff-Art Weiss, back
from his Salt Lake City vacash. . . . A
couple of baby girls to a couple of well-
known operators: Billy Wulf and Johnny
Nelson . . . . Operator Joe Selan is in the
hospital recuperating from a heart ailment.
Warren Taylor of Mills Sales in town
recently was displaying a plaque given him
by United Airlines for having flown 100,-
000 miles-all west of the Rockies. He is
said to be the only man in the Industry
with that record. Warren gave THE RE-
VIEW some off-the-record figures about the
business Mills Sales expects this year . . .
and we were impressed. But, of course, in
the Mills Constellation phonograph, Mills
Bells, Photomatic and RCA-Victor coin
radio the firm has some of the finest equip-
ment on the market.
Speaking of flying, one of the most con-
firmed birdmen in the Industry is Ken
Brown, of Coinmatic Distributors. Ken is
making his former hobby a profitable pro-
fession . He has organized Amphibian Air
Transport. Inc., which flys passengers in
30 minutes from Burbank Airport direct to
Avalon Bay, Catalina Island, or 17 minutes
from Long Beach Municipal Airport. His
line is carrying several hundred passengers
a week.
I
The kind of news we like to hear and
pass on to our readers came the other day
from Jack Dolan, of Coin Craft, ' manufac-
turers of a mirrored cabinet. Jack ran an
advertisement in THE REVIEW about his
cabinet and sold 50. "Best money we
ever spent," Jack enthused. "We were
swamped with inquiries and orders. We
got response from all over the country, and
one distributor in Venezuela made us a
cash-on-the-barrel-head offer without even
seeing the machine."
Bill Leuenhagen's music bar continues to
be the favorite meeting place of the town's
most successful music operators. Bill has
taken on several more labels and is now
able to offer operators practically any in-
dependent label that produces music suit-
able for automatic phonographs. His col-
lection and his service is unique along
Coin Row .
Grading has begun' on the new addition
to the Shipman Manufacturing plant.
Meanwhile the company is turning out
Spin-It's at the rate of 150 a day.
Bud Parr of Solo tone is getting a lot of
pleasure out of his ranch in Ventura
County. It's quite a place. And covered
with wild life. The other morning he
counted 27 deer which had invited them-
selves to breakfast with his horses.
Gillespie Games, of Long Beach, is said
to be tooling up for a counter game
called Penny Lag, which is expected to be
on . the market' in about a month. Same
company expects to be in production with
its roll down game, Tit Tat Toe, in about
two months. Homer Gillespie has been in
Chicago attending to business connected
with the roll down game.
Fred Gaunt, of General Music, reports
that operators from near and far are tell-
ing him that the new Buckley Track Odds
are even more profitable to operate than
had been claimed. "Experience is the
surest proof," says Fred, "of any game.
Track Odds long has been recognized as
the only seven-coin race horse console that
will stand up year after year and out-earn
all other coin machines."
Nels Nelson, who is displaying Strikes
-
We Specialize- .
SLOT MACHINES
Repair
Convert
,
Refinish
VEST POCKETS
FACTORY METHOD REFINISHING
Quick pickup and delivery service .
Call Cltras 2·2261
STEP~NS
& HODGSON
ISucc:essor. to ErnIe GrallamJ
1212 E. Colorado
Glendale 5, Cal. _
(Rear Entrance'
I
COIN
MACHIHE
REVIEW
99
FOR
JULY
1947
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