The one inside looks to be a cigarette vending machine. Those often had mirrors on them like this one appears to -- I suppose to encourage the lady patrons to pick up a pack of Luckies while freshening their lipstick.
Looks like the machine inside might be a cigarette vending machine. You don't see many of those around these days.
Could be candy bars and other snacks too, I suppose, but the pale rectangles in each chute are all the same size, like stacks of Kents or Pall Malls.
I remember those in the stores in the Quarter. To this day, as much of a car guy as I am, the word "Ford" makes me think of those machines!As has been pointed out, that's a
cigarette vending machine.
The early gas stations in my area mostly
had soda or cigarette vending machines.
Candy whether gum or peanuts came
in round glass containers on metal stands for a penny. . . .
I suppose it was someone's idea of an instruction, as if the machine were telling you out loud, "Lift Here." But then why not have the quotes around the "Serve Yourself" text as well?. . .
One of the most common gas station candy vendors was used by the Tom's Snacks company. Thousands of these units were built in the 1940s and 1950s, and remained in use into the 1970s -- we had exactly this unit, and only retired it when the coin mechanism wouldn't accept a price increase to 15 cents. The machine was also made in a red and white paint job, which seems to have been more common than the beige machines like the one we had.
I never understood the use of scare quotes around "Lift Here" and always found it annoying.
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