Play Meter

Plea e allow me to off r m
congratulation on a mo t incisive
publication . Each and every issue is
chock full of much needed informa -
tion and insight for all of us in the
coin -operated indu try , including
the OPERATOR ! I think we can all
agree that the n ds of th operator
have been toO long n glected .
Her at ROM , we deal with
manufactur r , di tributors and op-
rators a like and I only wish that
more operators were aware of your
magazin and th invaluabl infor-
mation it contain . I feel sure they
would find your frank and hone t
approach to the problem of the
indu try refr hingl y different.
Warm wi h
for ou continued
uccess .
M.L. Donahue
Pre ident
RDM Associate loc.
The " blue suede shoe " ale men
have been the ruination of the
legitimate coin machine operator;
have hUrl man y di tributors, both
large and small ; a nd broken many ,
man y innocen t victims of their life
savings b
fal e adv ni ing of
earning of th video game and by
charging as much a
3 ,000 per
game for a game that costs me
1, 100 .
I purchased vid 0 game for my
be t locations onl y. just to keep out
the comp tition , but b fore I can
begin to get a fair return on my
in e tment , the machines are being
obsoleted by newer game and
ill -advised fa torie
ontinuing to
e ll direct the same game with a few
mall changes .
George C. Mahlum
Mavis Mu ic Co.
San Diego, Calif.
I think your magazine is tops . I
would like to see more of the s rvice
tips on games of all kinds . I would
al 0 like to se the gro s ea rning
figur s of the new products on the ir
test locations publi hed .
Michael W. Hawk
Hawk & Son Vending
Salina , Kansa
Perhap you wou ld b interested
in h aring from an old timer in the
oin -opera ted music busine s ( ince
1909).
I would al 0 like to hear from any
oldtim r in this busines.
My
memory goe back as far as th
Regina Hexaphone , whi h pia ed
ix - ylind r records, was selective
and after depo iting a nickel , the
pla yer had to crank the machine up.
I al 0 remember the Wurht zer
Tonophon
and automatic harp .
Your article " The Wurlit zer
Whammy " in your April issue
referred to the Wurlit zer as the
patriarch of the Am rican jukebox.
This is not so. See burg , Rockola,
Capehart , the Mills ovelty Co . and
one or two others were in the field
before Wurlitzer , which was the last
to enter th jukebox business (last
in -- first out of the big three.)
The Seeburg Company, while
owned by the S eburg family, never
ref rr d to their phonograph as a
"jukebox ". A I under tand this
name referred to early phonographs
used in J ook Joint , popular at one
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