Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

Back when they had cigarette vending machines…….yes, I’m that old.

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Across the river from the Cincinnati Reds baseball stadium is a bar/club that still has a cigarette vending machine in it. The pull handle style.
We usually use a parking lot by there and have a beer there before catching the ferry across the river to watch the game.
 
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I’ll happily visit Austria again. Beautiful country. I also want to visit Australia and see @Barneybdb, but I’m not flush and need to save up for those things.
You will be well looked after if you came to visit mate, I too have fond memories of my trips to Austria, and some very fuzzy ones.
 
Across the river from the Cincinnati Reds baseball stadium is a bar/club that still has a cigarette vending machine in it. The pull handle style.
We usually use a parking lot by there and have a beer there before catching the ferry across the river to watch the game.
What's the cost................I remember buying a pack out of the same type of machine for 50 cents...............yea, I'm old........
 
What's the cost................I remember buying a pack out of the same type of machine for 50 cents...............yea, I'm old........
When I was in 5th and 6th grade, one of the pull type machines was outside of a small grocery store that mostly sold beer a few blocks from where we lived. One of the handles would pull and dispense a pack of pall-mall reds without having to insert quarters. (and only quarters were acceptable) My brother and I kept this a close secret for quite some time. We were careful to only get a pack once in a while so the vending machine guy wouldn't find that empty slot and be missing some quarters. We were the 2 cool guys that always had smoke to share (or not) with our friends (or not). Then, one day, that slot was empty and never had cigarettes in it again.

Edit to say: we were still the cool guys
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Across the river from the Cincinnati Reds baseball stadium is a bar/club that still has a cigarette vending machine in it. The pull handle style.
We usually use a parking lot by there and have a beer there before catching the ferry across the river to watch the game.
The ones I remember worked on quarters, cigs were 1.25 a pack in them. Yours must be a new modern type that takes bills or cards ? Chase aren't packs now like 15$ each now ? That's a lot of quarters.... Lol
 
What's the cost................I remember buying a pack out of the same type of machine for 50 cents...............yea, I'm old........

I remember thirty cents. Three careful trimmed pennies worked.

I quit 17 APR 81. At the time, name brands were $2.19 per carton in the commissary. Think I recently saw a sign advertising seven bucks per pack.
 
What's the cost................I remember buying a pack out of the same type of machine for 50 cents...............yea, I'm old........


The ones I remember worked on quarters, cigs were 1.25 a pack in them. Yours must be a new modern type that takes bills or cards ? Chase aren't packs now like 15$ each now ? That's a lot of quarters.... Lol
It is an original one that only takes coins.
I'd say that it is just a novelty display since legally they can't sell cigarettes without verification of age. Each of the slots had different brands of cigarettes at varying quantities
 
Those roots are from a pear tree. 🍐 There are many different varieties. From the size of those roots, I suspect it is a rather small tree - either the 50 or 100 pear variety. The really large ones are known as 2400 pear trees.

Back in the 1990s, there were people called silent tree huggers. They were everywhere. You never knew about their passion, but cut the roots of a big pear tree and they’d come outside and be yelling and screaming at the guy operating the excavator or trencher.

Some businesses employed so many silent tree huggers that if you damaged one pear tree they’d have to send all their employees home. The workers were so traumatized by the loss of their beloved pear tree tthey were unable to work. This was long before they invented safe spaces and emotional support animals.

There were other reported cases of people protesting and suing for the loss of a giant pear tree.

Back in 1987, Mr. T inexplicably cut down more than 100 oak trees on his estate in Lake Forest, Illinois. The incident angered his neighbors, and it is now known as the Lake Forest Chainsaw Massacre. Had these 100+ trees been of the large pear varieties, Mr T would likely have been arrested.
 
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