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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on July 13, 2007, 06:43:10 pm ---You could put decks of cards in it, small sandwiches, business cards, small box of crayons. The possibilities are endless.

Geez Chad - you need to use your imagination.

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Now explain to me why you would want to vend any of those three things in your house, especially the sandwiches, in a nonrefridgerated case.   :laugh2:

I know!  I'll stick Atari carts in it and every time you want to play you have to buy the cart.

leapinlew:
Get the cigarette machine and keep your eye out for a coin-op chemotherapy machine.

SavannahLion:
These machines were a common fixture where I grew up. I remember, even as a little tyke with my father, looking into the glass at the colorful cigarette packages. I even remember asking my father what they were.

When I was old enough to know that a quarter was vastly superior than the lowly half-dollar, dime, nickel or penny, those cigarette machines were always there. Waiting silently by the front entrance of the arcade as I made a beeline for the Tempest cabinet.

When cigarette machines were outlawed in my state, most were shipped out of state or destroyed. My father actually got a hold of two for scrap metal and I remember gutting the machine to get at the cash box inside for those precious quarters. Then working my way to the cigs so I could see what was inside them (in retrospect, I should've sold them for arcade money, meh) . But the machine at the arcade was converted to vend candy. How it escaped the exodus is beyond me. Unfortunately, it was later destroyed in a construction mishap, the same one that damaged the Tempest machine.

Even with the constant influence of smoking, cigarettes and advertisements, not once did I ever have any desire to smoke. When it came right down to it, the addiction of feeding money into an arcade cab was far greater than lighting a couple of sticks and inhaling the smoke. But having a vending machine there, to me, just completes the kind of atmosphere I grew up in. If I can get one, I'll just buy cig sized boxes of candy and put them in.

ChadTower:

When I was an early teen I worked at Dunkin Donuts... we had one of those in the vestibule.  That machine got picked clean every week and I don't think I ever saw anyone above the age of 16 using it.  Every kid in a 5 mile radius that wanted smokes got them from that machine.

Jouster:
So what exactly went into the doughnuts??  I always figured there was nicotine or something in them...I mean I ate so many, it was like I just couldn't quit.

Jouster

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