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rovingmind:
make friends with the weekend security guard, haul it home and get his help. :D I would love that thing and i dont smoke.
On a secondary note there is a small movement of poeple taking old ciggarette machines rebuilding them and filling them with small art pieces that fit into ciggarette sized packages, there was a website that talked all about it but its been awhile since i saw it. I think the closest to me was in chicago.
Zakk:
--- Quote from: Jouster on July 13, 2007, 09:02:33 pm ---So what exactly went into the doughnuts??
Jouster
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Dead hookers. Everybody knows that. Ask Chad!
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 13, 2007, 08:11:21 pm ---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.
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Before the ban. most kids never had to where I grew up. There are three schools right next to each other. Near one was a pizza place that sported an arcade/pool hall, cigarette sales and a condom vending machine (not the one I frequented). The people who worked there were typically high school drop outs and they had absolutely no bones to pick about selling cigs to anyone. It's also in the same building as a microbrewery, but oddly you couldn't buy beer at the pizzeria if you were under age ???
I remember it wasn't until the vending ban that the place started to sink. The school district kept pressuring the pizzeria to get rid of the cigs. Then they were forced to remove the condom machine. Then the arcade. Then the pool hall and that's when the owners finally decided to sell it off. Now it's a crappy Italian restaurant with bad food and nothing interesting.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Zakk on July 14, 2007, 11:31:49 am ---
Dead hookers. Everybody knows that. Ask Chad!
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Dead hookers go into the crossainwiches.
Boz:
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It isn't actually such a horrible idea. It wasn't until the last 20 years or so that cigarettes were considered "bad for you" or carried such a negative perspective, so... the stigma is in the eye of the beholder. Coin-op or not, retro is the thing a lot of people are after. When you look at this one on eBay from the 40's, it makes a bit more sense why someone would want one.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/1940s-50s-cigarette-machine_W0QQitemZ120140226540QQihZ002QQcategoryZ3950QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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