Pennsylvania is the 5th most populated state but in the bottom half by land area. There should have been a large concentration of pins there. Bingo's too.

Love the Michigan Nickel Co. sticker. RIP Norm LaFleur. He and Mike Benson were typical slimeball route operators. Chummy and would talk nice to you at events and at the local distributors but would not hesitate to stab you in the back for locations. They would send people in to damage your equipment as well.

Bally Wulff was the eventual name of Gunter Wulff Manufacturing of Germany that Bally acquired in the late 1960's. A maker of Wall mounted slot machines at the time. They also distributed all forms of coin-operated equipment.

They exist today but have been completely separated from Bally Technologies/Scientific Games for about fifteen years now.

The decal you possess is from one of the distribution locations in Germany.

Today Bally Wulff makes many forms of gaming equipment and player regulation systems. They moved into a modern assembly plant and offices in Berlin nearly two years ago.

I've got one of those decals on a Monopoly wall mounted Bally Wulff slot machine.
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I dealt with a Bill's Vending in New Jersey in '83.

I remember driving by it with my dad. It was a few blocks East of Chicago Coin/Stern Electronics. Nice storefront with lots of windows so you could see the equipment. I recall a "Karate" machine on display close to the windows.

Not a decal, but when I worked for a route operator from '79 to '85. The company was named SILCO for Steerwell International Leisure Company based in lovely North Bergen, NJ. Besides the NYC metro area route that went by SILCO, they had Joy Amusement Co in Detroit (Allen Park) where I worked and Empire Smokes and Music in Buffalo (Cheektowaga) NY.

Every so often, they would have me go to the Buffalo location to repair a pile of circuit boards that would stack up when their bench tech was out for vacation etc. Here are a few pics from near Christmas, 1979 when I was sent there. As is expected near Buffalo, there is some snow on the ground.

As far as I know, they are still in business and less than a mile away as the location pictured was sold for retail businesses as it was right on Walden Avenue. Now a restaurant stands there.

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Other than I would drive through Ontario to get there from Detroit when I did not carry parts or equipment, they should have been named SDLCO...

Back in that time, everyone used the term "International" to sound important. Later I worked for Rockwell International which previously was called North American Rockwell as Rockwell bought out North American Aviation. We always said they should be named "Rockwell Domestic" A buddy of mine at Rockwell worked for Mentis International which was a hole in the wall high speed printer company with one location in Rochester, Michigan. They tried to compete with Centronics....

The CA and HI are telephone exchange identifiers. HI is Highland.

Member, Music Operators of America. MOA, the predecessor to the AMOA.

Highly prized component in good condition.

The four digit phone number is a clue....

I've seen a three digit phone number on a 1950's give-away pencil for a grocery store in Sycamore, Ohio.

Here's a good one;

A true upstanding pillar of the Operating community. A nice Juvi past tried as an adult. More interesting are his Federal charges and conviction from aboot seven years ago....

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From my route technician days in the early '80's... Here are the service tickets we had to fill out. Carbonless in triplicate. Location was asked to sign and they got a copy. One was turned in to the service manager and the other stayed in our books. 50 tickets per book.

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Love the three digit phone numbers....

Southeast Michigan operator based in Allen Park. Steerwell was headquartered in North Bergen, New Jersey.

They also owned Empire Smokes & Music of Buffalo/Cheektowaga, NY as shown In my earlier post #252.

Steerwell's use of bootleg Pac Man, Galaxian, Donkey Kong and Rally-X circuit boards led to their downfall in 1983-4. We at Joy Amusement separated ourselves from them just in time as the Feds got 'em.

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That's the defunct distributor that PHoF used to buy Stern pins from....

Most likely: 2 Nickels, 1 Play.

A portion of a location Contract by a route operator.

This is why many Operator decals state: "Contracted Establishment".

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The hometown of Titan Trailers. Makers of solid waste refuse as well as grain trailers.

Gotta love 4 digit phone numbers. There were still 3 digit numbers in small towns when I was born....

Yep, I bought tens of thousands of dollars worth of parts from them when I worked for a route operator in the '80's. Way cheaper than Wico for generic parts.

I deal with J & J and their VLT's in Effingham these days.....

That "void" sticker is probably like the one above it. When you peel it away, it destroys/voids it.

I worked for them. Silco is Steerwell International Leisure Company out of North Bergen, New Jersey.

Wico Corporate "Law".

Easy for the route operator to identify a stolen machine found in a fencing operation.

Those phone numbers are still valid!

Once games were purchased at these places, they became "Home use only"....

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1980/81