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~Bally~
[From Answers.com] In 1975 the Bally Distributing Company
was purchased for $9.5 million in cash and stock. That year was the beginning
of a four-year period during which Bally reached record operating results. In
1977 Chairman O'Donnell initiated Bally's diversification
into casino hotels. Plans for Bally's Park Place were launched just in time
for the 1978 New Jersey state decision to begin licensing casino operators. [Jan 1, 2008 N.Y. Times] William Redd, founder of
International Game Technology, the slot machine manufacturer, and a force
behind the growth of video poker, died here on Tuesday. He was 91.Mr. Redd,
who was known as Si, is credited with developing the Megabucks progressive
jackpots, which helped reshape modern gambling and popularize video poker.
After a career as a distributor of amusement games and jukeboxes in Boston,
Mr. Redd moved to Las Vegas in 1967 and founded the Bally Distributing
Company. His company was bought by Bally Manufacturing in the mid-1970's, and
in 1978 Redd formed a new venture called Sircoma, now International Game
Technology. Mr. Redd retained the right to develop video slot and video poker
machines, which have become staples of neighborhood bars and casinos.
International Game Technology, based in Reno, Nev., is now the world's
largest maker of slot machines. [Las Vegas Sun Jan 2001] At age 18, Redd, then a poolroom
shoeshine boy, invested $16 in a Bally's Goofy pinball machine and installed
it on a wooden frame in a hamburger joint that had dirt floors. His first
week's take was $32, and Redd was on his way. By the time he was attending
Ole Miss as a pre-law student, Redd had a thriving coin-operated machine
trade that he admits left him no time for his studies. In the late 1930s Redd
made a deal with the Wurlitzer Co. to buy outdated jukeboxes, and in little
time he and his Northwestern Music Co. had thriving routes in the small
Illinois towns of Sterling and Dixon. "That period and when I first
arrived in Reno (in 1967) were the happiest times in my life," Redd
said. "In Sterling my brother-in-law and I built a business that
stretched all the way to Chicago -- but not into Chicago because the boys
(mob) controlled the jukebox trade in that town. We'd go to Chicago to watch
the Cubs play and then get back on our route. It was just a great time." So impressed was Wurlitzer with Redd's salesmanship, the
company gave him a lucrative route in Boston. Eventually Redd returned to
Chicago and talked with officials at Bally's, who sent him to Reno, where
Redd fell in love with the "Big Bertha" style slot machines that he
marketed there with great success. Redd still has dreams of seeing a 15-story
Big Bertha slot machine built in Las Vegas. Si Redd's Bally Distributing, the company he formed to
sell the Bally products, soon became a driving force in gaming, spreading to
Carson City and into Las Vegas. His theory for slot and video machine success
was simple yet shocking for its time -- make the devices more liberal with
more jackpots. The thinking of that time was for slots to be tight.
[From www.gamessales.com] Since 1933, Central Distributing Company has offered
operators the finest in new and refurbished coin-operated
equipment made by the leading coin-op manufacturers. [Current Address] Our showroom and offices are located at: 609 N 108th Circle, Omaha, NE 68154
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2007 Internet Yellowpages
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Nelson & Michael Distributing Company
Incorporated - Seattle, WA Nelson
& Michael Distributing Company Incorporated -
Leasing Service, Amusement Devices, Amusement Park Rides Equipment in
Seattle, WA at YELLOWPAGES.COM yellowpages.com/.../Nelson-Michael- I almost have to believe that this is the same company,
it would simply be to odd of a coincidence for it not to be: An amusement
company out of Seattle with most of the name! Here is the current address: 2735 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA
98134 - (206) 623-4200
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COMPANY; VENDING ENTERPRISES, INC., d ... BFC"), J. S. Morris
and Sons Novelty Company ("Morris"),
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Sons Novelty Company; Vending Enterprises, doing
business as ... and Wonder Novelty Co. In its ruling, the Court
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J.S. Morris and Sons Novelty Company;
Vending Enterprises, doing business as ... www.gameinfowire.com/news.asp?nid=2412 - 51k - Cached United States Court of Appeals (PDF)
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J.S. Morris and
Sons Novelty. Company; Vending Enterprises, doing
business as Midwest ... Before BOWMAN, MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD,
and RILEY, Circuit Judges. ... www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/03/06/ Again, I almost have to believe that this is the same
company, it would simply be to odd of a coincidence for it not to be: A
vending enterprise company from Missouri with the same name. It’s also
interesting to see that they are in court trouble years later………….
[2007 Yahoo search Results] §
BEFORE THE STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION (PDF) (Roanoke
Vending Exchange, Inc. Commissioner, supra.) A taxpayer cannot
stockpile a bad ... (Roanoke Vending Exchange, v.
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THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA In ... (PDF) (Roanoke
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a brief description of what the web page contains. ... ( Roanoke
Vending Exchange, Inc. ... to requirements of the
Securities and Exchange commission. ... www.ftb.ca.gov/law/rulings/active/lr96_ It’s conjecture to say that these Law Related events from
California are tied to this same Virginia Roanoke company, but there
interesting none-the-less: “A bad debt reserve is an accounting
method for absorbing debts reasonably expected to become worthless within the
upcoming year. (Roanoke Vending Exchange, Inc. v. Commissioner, (1963) 40
T.C. 735.) A bad debt reserve is not intended to provide for all possible
losses a bank might incur, but only for losses arising in the normal course
of making customer loans. "Bad debt reserve accounts are intended to
handle only normal losses that arise in the ordinary course of a taxpayer's
day-to-day operations. Losses which are rare or unpredictable in nature and
amount should be handled apart from the taxpayer's bad debt reserve."
(Appeal of H-B Investment, Inc., Cal. St. Bd. of Equal., June 29, 1982; see
also Rev. Rul. 74-709, 1974-2 C.B. 61.)”
This 2007 Internet Yellow Pages
Listing Shows An Obvious Name Change: (It’s nice to see another company with
some of this history still around) Ruginis Amusement Machines 128 S Oak St (570) 339-4209
[From David Samuel’s Last of the Bingo Kings] The great dream of Myron's life was to turn New York
City into the world's largest slot-machine parlor. This enterprise, which
began in the summer of 1977 and ended with Myron's incarceration in 1995, was
an act of historical imagination and organizational skill involving hustlers and street operators from the
city's ethnic enclaves--Cubans, Dominicans, Greeks, Russians, Israelis, and
others. "I had a touch, I had an international flavor,” he says one
afternoon as we drive through the ruined Weequahic section of Newark in a
rented car, in search of the lot where the warehouse of the Runyon Sales Company,
his father's old firm, was located. "You have to remember, I started in
1959 traveling the world, speaking seven, eight languages, and who's got my
style? In all modesty, the answer is nobody. I was bringing in guys from all
over the world. I brought The Greek from Greece. I brought Jack the Ripper,
Adrian the Irishman, Jack Charles with the Big Red Nose from England. There
was Peachy from Argentina. And the Hungarian Kid, who worked for the Cuban in
Union City.” [From an article by Nat Bodian remembering Newark and The Tavern Restaurant] Myron Sugerman, whose father, Barney Sugerman, was in partnership with Zwillman in the Runyon Sales Company, reminded me, after reading this entry: "The only one I remembered who didn't have to wait for a table at The Tavern was Longy." [ebay narrative for a book on coinop history] You are bidding on a CD featuring
a collection of very rare "Scans" of a collection of
coin operated machine related pictures that adorn the walls at
the home of the legendary Coin Machine Character Myron Sugerman this larger
than life Walter Mitty character was President of Runyon Sales International a sales division set up to sell
the vast surplus of jukeboxes and amusement games that came from
the operating routes of The Runyon Sales Company where Myron's Father was
president, The
Runyon Sales Company
was the AMi and Bally distributor for New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.
In November 1955 the Reader's Digest did an article about the Mob connections
in the jukebox and vending machine industry, and The Runyon Sales Company was
not only associated with the New Jersey Mob but also owned by them. Longy
Zwilman and Doc' Stacher were the real owners of The Runyon Sales Company and Doc' Stacher was in control. In
1960 Billy O'Donnell sales manager for the Bally Manufacturing Company
approached the Runyon people with a request to raise money to buy Bally,
Jerry Catina, Abe Green and Irvin Kaye ( The Brooklyn Pool Table
Manufacturer) put up the money and Abe Green was put on the Bally board of
Directors. It would be nearly 20 years before the New Jersey Gaming
Commission would look into the dealing of The Runyon Sales Company. Bally who had become a giant in the
coin machine industry, was applying for a casino license in Atlantic City,
and through their investigations the New Jersey Gambling Commission, declined
to approve the license until both Abe Green and Billy O'donnell along with
Alex Wilms (The Bally Distributor in Belgium) be removed
from the Bally board. The rare and interesting pictures are from that era
when AMi jukeboxes were King in New Jersey, these pictures are ready for
you to zoom into and investigate, or print off copies for your collection. Be
the envy of many collectors with these rare and exclusive scans all on a
customised Compact Disc for you viewing pleasure, I am limiting this first
series so don't get left out, so hurry while they are available
~United~
[From www.mountaincoin.com ] Mountain Coin Machine Distributors has been supplying
operators throughout the western United States with video games, vending
equipment, juke boxes, pool tables, coin-op equipment & parts and service
for over 50 years. We are the number one distributor with many of the
manufactures listed below, and are the exclusive distributor for many of them
including Ice Manufacturing, Andamiro, and Sega just to name a few.
Our offices are all centrally located throughout the midwest to serve you in
the most efficient way possible. Our friendly sales staff is eager to
hear from you and will do whatever it takes to make sure you are completely
satisfied. Our large buying power will guarantee you a price that is
competitive. Our quality controlled service departments will make sure
your purchase will be backed up by factory trained electronic technicians
that can get your equipment repaired fast, minimizing loss of revenues. Mountain
Coin Machine Distributors also specializes in home game rooms. Every office
welcomes retail home sales as well as commercial sales. Our stock of used
equipment is constantly rotating, bringing you a large variety of
professionally reconditioned coin-operated equipment that is priced perfectly
for your home game room. If your in the market for a Pool Table, Juke
Box, Fooseball Table, Air Hockey, Pinball Machine....pretty much anything you
can put a quarter in, we are your answer. We can even deliver and set
up your purchase for you in select markets. Give us a call at any of
our offices by clicking on the location links below for our office addresses,
phone numbers and contact information. All of us at Mountain Coin Machine
Distributors would like to personally say thank you for stopping by our web
site and we hope to hear from you soon. I think it’s interesting that both of these last two
distributors are out of Denver. Like Bally, United was a Chicago-based
company and it doesn’t appear that they shared any distributors and it
doesn’t look like Bally had any on of the central states.
Interesting here to note that our first Bally
distributor was a music company as is this last United! ~Keeney~
So far I’ve got all of this distributor detail off of the
flyers, but in this case I am going to have to get tricky and research some
other avenues. But that’s cool, and that is why I was excited to create this
page: It is basically a wonderful foundation for anyone whom wants to dig in
and research this further. I know Raymond Watt will like this detail J ~Williams~ Although Williams didn’t make any full-bingo machines,
they did make some Pseudo-Bingos and it’s interesting to not they shared
distributors with Bally:
Maybe it was a simple as location: Chicago? …………..All For Now………… |
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