Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

Walter Leonard, partner in the M & L
Amusement, Bellflower, died as the result
of a ~eart attack in mid-April.
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Minthorne Music has leased the former
Nels Nelson quarters on Coin Rowand
will use the spot for storage space_
William Garner has closed his local elec-
tronics shop and gone east to take a
position_
Ed Wisler, formerly with .Wurlitzer and
more recently district manager for Aireon,
has joined the Packard sales force here.
Allan Brown, Jack Eyman and Herman
King, Packard service' managers, - have
really done a job in following up the
tremendous sale of Manhattans.
Slugs have hit San Diego with a ven-
geance. Ray Mengar, vending operator, re-
ported 200 copper slugs picked up in ciga-
rette machines alone.
Denver
The Denver branch of the Jones Distri-
buting Co. is a busy place these days. In
addition to expansion, changes in location
and personnel, it is conducting an exten-
s,ive campaign on the new Seeburg phono-
graph.
This revolutionary instrument,
called the Select-O-Matic, is designated
SICM (Seeburg Industrial-Commercial mu-
sic) for use in factories, clubs, department
stores and game rooms and the Denver
store is most enthusiastic about its possi-
bilities. A showing of the new SICM was
held at the Cosmopolitan hotel on April
3-4-5, with a large crowd in attendance.
The local firm has a program over KMYR
three days a week as well as in the local
newspapers, and expects to begin contact-
ing prospects from now on, promoting home
and industrial units of the machine_
John J. Bonn, of the Ace-Hi Vending
Machines Agency, reports that he is in-
stalling a number of amusement machines
in taverns, mainly in suburban locations;
that at present he has all his machines out
on locations and is ordering more. The
Bally machines are going fine, he says.
Since moving to his new location on Morri-
son Road, Bonn says he has built a new
home and shop and his business has in-
creased. Things are picking up; collections
good since middle of February: and he
expects a good year. \:
A. C. Roberts, of the Wolf Sales Co., was
married April 4 to Toba Wodlinger of Los
Angeles. The ceremony was performed at
the B.M.H. Synagogue in Denver. Present
were the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Maurice E. Wodlinger, Mr. and Mrs. Wolf
R. Roberts, parents of the groom, Mrs. Al
A. Rosenthal and two children, sister of
the groom, Governor and. Mrs. Lee Knous,
General and Mrs. Burwell, and several
executives of the Wurlitzer company.
W. H. Graham, of the phonograph sales
division of the Rock-Dla company, is in
Denver on business .. . . Arthur Weinand,
also of the Rock-Dla company, is the
proud papa of a new baby boy, born April
7. Modern Distributing company reports
that it is still making deliveries of Gott-
lieb's Cinderella machines, but unable to
get the machines fast enough to meet the
demand.
Charles Kaplan, of the P & M Vending
Co., says that business has picked up in
the last two or three weeks_ He has pu t
on another driver for handling h is cigarette
machines. He has also added the Vendall
candy machi ne and is selling a number of
them since the weather has improved. His
salesmen cover territory in Colorado, New
Mexico and Wyoming_
Gibson Bradshaw, of the Denver Amuse-
ment Coo, is confined to his home on doc-
tor"s orders, but says he expects to be
able to return to his office in the near
f uture. Telephones from the office inform
him that business is very good, ' he says,
and t heY' have been selling a lot of new
phonographs,
Francell. C ourey
Seattle
Ralph Alger, of'Hi-Tone Music Coo, has
expanded his operations by going into
partnership with Henry A. Christensen in
a new firm, Hi-Tone Amusement Co. The
partners have placed amusement machines
iIi a number of locations and find Bally's
Hy-Roll a popular game. Hi-Tone Music
will continue its phonograph routes.
Johnny Michael's Seattle Amusement
Coo, local distributor for Packard's Man-
hattan, finds out-of-town operators are
among his best customers for the new
models. Johnny also operates pin ball
games, and right now is putting a fe,w
penny scales out on location. Jerry Steffan,
shop manager, is proud of the fluorescent
lighting recently installed at Seattle
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Amusement.
F. E. Erickson, Wa Oing Mfg. Co. repre-
sentative, made several calls · along Coin
Machine Row when he visited Seattle in
April. Erickson reports that scale business
is good all over the country.
Dale Grimes, of the Jack R. Moore Co.,
has been transferred from the firm's Port-
land office to the Seattle branch as outside
salesman_ . . . The local office is looking
for delivery of wall-boxes from AMI to
fill a large list of orders . . . . Bally's Gold
Cup is selling well, Tom Dal of the Moore
company reports.
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A State Senate committee investigating
private liquor and bell machine clubs,
after holding hearings in Spokane early in
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