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John Estridge, who is the president of the
Tennessee association, is a very fine man and I
found him a pleasure to work with. And Frank
Cannon, Jr., who was elected the president of the
Georgia association is one of the finest men I have
ever known. These two men represent the fine
caliber of men in this industry. To give you an
example of what I mean, when I was at the Geor-
gia organizational meeting, one of the principals
involved in the formation of that state association
came to the meeting late. He said the reason was
that he had been to church. He said he was sorry
he was late, but he didn't miss church for any-
thing. That's what I mean about the caliber of men
we have in this industry.
PLAY METER: Have you noticed a change in the
public image of the industry?
GARRETT: Imagewise, now, I think, our business
is just as well respected as almost any other
business you can think of. My state association, for
instance, recently made contributions to two homes
for orphaned and abandoned boys. We donated
some equipment to them, and it's things like that
that we should all be doing. You know, we all talk
a lot about our image, but sometimes we think too
much about taking. We've got to give some too,
and I felt this was an excellent example of doing
just that. I'll give you another example of why I
think our image is changing for the better. Some
of us operators in North Carolina were approached
by a Baptist church about putting some equipment
in an activities building the church had. We put in
a pool table. a video tennis game, a foosbaH table,
a shuffle alley. a pin game, and a jukebox. And
they were really elated over that. There was a
time not too long ago when a church wouldn't
have let you put those kinds of things in a church
building.
PLAY METER: Can you tell us something about
the Notre Dame seminar and how it is progressing
in your eyes?
GARRETT: I think it's really remarkable the way
the professors at that seminar have taken hold of
our business and have learned as much about it in
the few years they've been holding these seminars.
Some of the instructors have, in fact, even gotten
out in the trucks and ridden the routes along with
the routemen and have found out some things
about the business which are very helpful, things
like the time it takes to service a ]of'ation. And
they've been able to give us a breakdown of what
it would cost to stop at each location. They have
also gotten into another Dhase of the businp.ss
where you go into a location where the man
doesn't have any equipm ent and you sell him on
the idea of putting some eauipment in. If the loca-
tion owner says he doesn't have enough room, you
can just by showing him if he'd move a few tables
around he does have the room. This will be a por-
tion of an upcoming seminar by Dr. John Malone
who will be sppakin~ at the AMOA show on
"Salesmanship: The Road to a new Business."