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an opinion in stark co ntra st to Kram za r's belief
that 'a lo t o f peo ple in the busin ess right no w arc
brok e and th ey d on t even kn o w it. " Fishe r feels
" the coin indus try is one of those industrie that is
not affected by bad financial tim e th e same as
other busin esses. This industry was born o ut of th e
Depression and it grew o ut of th ose hard times."
It 's just po ibl e Fisher ay, that harder
economic tim es for th e nat io n may mean better
times for the co in amu e m e nt machine operato r.
Unea y financia l situations may kee p more people
close to h o m e in 1975, he ad d s, where th ey will
vi sit loca l amusement location m re frequent!
a nd pe rh a ps spend what m ney the set a ide for
e nt e rta inm e nt o n the less ex pensive ente rtai nm ent
offered by co in -operated am usements.
sales dip
flipp er game more ofte n. TV tenni games are
ca using a pro ble m for th firm, al o. Heyer ays,
beca use of "our in a bilit to trad them in. We
can't trade them in from a custome r becau e th y
have no o th e r market. It isn t omethi ng that holds
up. " Heyer h ope factories omeda y se ll vid eo
gamcs with a n o rigina l gamc modulc with
replaceable extra modules to fit thc samc ca bin cts.
Economic con ditio n vary throughout North -
wes t ' five-state a rea, bu t arc for the mo st part fa ir
to good. Ala ska ' economy is boo ming a nd is one
of the firm' s prime areas. Hcyer ays . " We went
through a rece ssio n in the Boei ng (aircraft
manufa c turer) era hcre when we had heav layoff
and where the nation a l trand is going up in
unemploymcnt, o ur s is co ming down. " ea ttl c's
uncmpl oy ment was up to 8.5 8.6, Heyer note,
but now it is in the sc ven per ccnt rangc "a nd we
ca ll our e lve fo rtunate." Id a ho and Montana are
down because of a lump in the lumbering bu sine
now , " but we sce m to be holding our own."
That's how small di s tributor-ooc rator R .
H ogar~ of Tul a Au tomatic Mu sic Co. in Tulsa,
kl a., feel, too. "As far as in co me goes, it ' better
than it 's ever been. " Hogard says. The economy in
Tul a is b oo ming. hc no tes, becau ' c of the
concentration of o il companies and oil-related
bu inesses in the area. " We don't have the seve n,
eight or nine per ce nt unemployment they have in
o ther parts of the country. ' Hogard adds. Th e re
probably wi ll be ome person s affe ted by a
rece ss ionary trend in Tulsa and no rthwest Okla-
homa. "but so far that ha n 't come about," Hoga rd
say . Whil e many take a dim view of what' going
to happen to the coi n amu ement business in 1975,
Hogard does no t. "We ve got a pretty good bun c h
of operators out here. The y've got e no ugh se nse to
reali ze you can't go on a 1940 ceo no m anymorc.
Yo u either make some money or go br oke and I'm
young enough that I don't int e nd to go broke.
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