Deco Cigarette machine

[twobarbreak]

I only know i have this same Cigarette machine in a photo
from 1939 in a popular dance club, In Los Angeles...

 

[scotrace]

There's another of those things for the "things that have disappeared" thread. These used to be everywhere - I wonder what happened to them all?

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Mostly scrapped for parts? Used to see 'em in bars here and there, and hotel lobbies recently. But I haven't been to a bar in a year, so don't even know that they have them there anymore either. No loss,... Maybe they could be converted to vend something else?

 

[Ethan Bentley]

The new versions are still about but nothing as nice as this. A real gem.

 

[dhermann1]

The subways used to be full of those machines, as well as identical gum machines. The result was subway platforms that were virtually paved with old lumps of chewing gum.

 

[Spiffy]

There's an art museum in Winston-Salem that gutted an old cigarette machine and set up an Art-O-Mat.
1. Insert coins
2. Receive art that fits inside a cigarette machine.
3. Feel like you've spent $4 wisely, on art instead of on cigarettes.

I'm pretty sure I got a tiny wooden robot puppet named Ranger Grey. He lives on my rear-view window with my K-9 air freshener.

 

[LizzieMaine]

We used to have one in the family gas station -- I don't remember ever seeing any fresh cigarettes put in it, so on those rare occasions when somebody bought a pack they must have been terribly terribly stale.

There was also a sign firmly attatched to the front. UNDER PENALTY OF LAW THIS MACHINE NOT TO BE OPERATED BY MINORS. This was what then passed for strict enforcement of the tobacco laws.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I have always wanted one, just for the fact that all my friends smoke at my cabin, and I think I could make some good money of a cigarette machine

 

[St.Ignatz]

I only know i have this same Cigarette machine in a photo
from 1939 in a popular dance club, In Los Angeles...

I can see it holding a pack of Fatima's with 2 pennies in the bottom of the pack.

 

[Viola]

There used to be one of these at both the pizza place and at the deli my grandmother would take me to as a kid, and at least one looked of similar age. This was in the late eighties through mid-nineties.

They're gone now, I think. So's my grandmother, rest her soul, who'd smoked forty years but stopped when I was born. Lung cancer.