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Hoyt Harrison
Harrison Music
Hartsville, South Carolina
Jim Mason
High Country Games
Laramie, Wyoming
"We pay our bills with pool tables
and music. A hot video may have
more money coming in at any given
time, but in six months it's dead. A
pool table- once it's paid for-
goes on making money; there 's no
re-investing over and over as you
have to do with a video. Our
tables are all Valleys -65 of them .
They're built well. If someone
picks one up and drops it the legs
won't collapse. Valley tables are
easy to fix , too, and we know
Valley will be around next year
and the year after that. When a
video breaks down its a 50 per-
cent chance it will have to go into
the shop and take a week to fix .
With a pool table, we can do what
has to be done on location most
of the time. Our 8-ball leagues are
a big help. Our collections are up a
minimum of 35 percent in locations
with leagues."
"They'll beat video every time.
Now that our pool tables are on 50
cent play, they're our best profit-
makers. Out of the 300 tables we
have, 240 are Valleys. Some of
these are 15 years old and still pro-
ducing. If we were to sell them,
we'd get far more than we paid;
they don't owe us a thing. A video
may work its way down through
the locations for a couple of years,
but the big dollars are gone in 6-8
months. Then it has almost no
value. Right now, we have 30 that
we can't use. When we have to,
we can usually fix a Valley table on
the spot; videos take so much
longer A lot of lost income ... some-
thing that almost never happens
with a pool table. "
Clyde Schaeffer
Schaeffer's Music Co.
Quincy, Illinois
"Many of our pool tables gross
$ 80- $ 1 00 a week and we don't
do this well on a lot of the videos
we have out. We have about 60
Valley tables right now, no other
brands, and we 've always had
better luck with Valley. Others
don't hold up, and some the play-
ers don't like. Where the pockets
are too big, for example. When we
do have to work on a Valley it's
easy because of how well they're
built. The videos today are very
expensive, have only a short life,
seldom bring a high profit, and
they're worth little at the end . For
return on our investment, our pool
tables are just more profitable ...
constant money-makers."
For your best shot at real, long-term profits remember ... Valley
coin-operated pool tables cost you less, bring you more!
VALL~
THE VALLEY COMPANY
Subsidiary of Kidde , Inc.
KIDDE
P. 0. Box 656, Bay City, Michigan 48707