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History of Groetchen Manufacturing
1937 became the year of alternative with a gaggle of payout games aimed at replacing the venerable Bell machine. The slot blooming market provided a room for a new entrant. Actually it was an existing counter game maker that decided to enter the big leagues and go payout. Richard Groetchen had long cherished a dream of positioning his firm among the Bell machine fraternity. To accomplish this he hired outside engineering and design talent to create a completely new form of Bell machine that was smaller and lighter than the standard models of Mills, Jennings, Pace or Watling. Groetchen gave design engineer to produce the COLUMBIA. A truly unique feature of the COLUMBIA was the fact that it solved the operator problem of having to stock a variety of coinage variations of a particular machine to meet differing operating conditions. By 1938 The Groetchen Tool Company was fielding a full line of COLUMBIA machines, including check separators, gum venders, improved Bell models, concealed payouts and others. A prime feature was the fact that COLUMBIA handled foreign coins with ease.
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