[Jukebox-list] Skimming the take (was cashboxes)

[David Rebber]

>From an operator's side, the Rock-Ola and Rowe cash bags were pitted against 
the Seeburg cash box.  Reason?  A small route owner could cheat the location 
or a large route operators' routeman could cheat him using the bag.  All he 
had to do was grab the bag by the bottom and clutch a handfull of coin in 
the cloth.  "Dumping" the bag would result in the remainder hitting the 
table or coin counter.  Once he had paid the location, who was usually busy 
stashing their share of the take, he could simply sack up his portion plus 
the bonus.

Seeburg distributors would tell large route owners that their employees were 
less likely to "skim" the take with a Seeburg cash box.  Along with the 
"mystery" of a tormat, grey & black boxes, that cash box probably kept a lot 
of small operators from using Seeburg.

The first 12 years I worked here there were no "security measures", like a 
meter, used.  The boss had a nose for what a location should be running and 
could "pre-check" the location ahead of a suspected crooked routeman and 
catch him red-handed....

David