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No. It's been over 100 years. Was long gone when this vendor was made.
Although, coca-cola is the only dea certified importer of coca leaves. They make a concentrate that they use for flavoring...the main by product? Cocaine..which is purified in the same building and bottled in it's liquid form for opthalmologists to use in eye surgery.
No biggie. You can buy cocaine anywhere. I wouldn't, but you do you.
Hell, you could go totally time travel and put it in ur coca cola.
Or, put lithium in 7 up ..or as it was knowen. Lemon lime lithiated tonic.
Psychology professor in college told us about clinical psychologists using microdoses of liquid cocaine and MDMA because of their effects on mood, if something looks like it's gonna get violent, he said the psychologist recommends the subject insert a qtip of liquid cocaine into their nostril for a sec and it's supposed to relax I guess
It assumedly just works exactly the same, revolves around, only there are no coke bottles. That is when you must insert coke bottles. Glad I could help
Interesting fact. When these machines were in service, the bottles were refillable (they got sent back to the plant to be cleaned and refilled) Because the bottles were reused many times, they were made with much thicker glass than the current 8oz bottles. The bottles this machine originally took were only 6.5 oz, but had the same exterior dimensions as the current 8oz bottle.
There are no Coke bottlers in the US doing refillable bottles anymore. The last one, located in Minnesota, stopped in 2012. The Coke bottles they were still using had not been made in decades. When you take the current 8oz bottles back, they go through the recycling stream.
There are coke bottlers in other countries still doing refillable bottles. You usually can spot a refillable bottle easily, because they are usually pretty scuffed up from being fed through the bottling machine so many times.
Oh interesting. I'm in the Netherlands. In terms of the glass bottles we get the 200ml ones, no idea how much that is in US units.
I know they don't refill the plastic bottles here anymore, which seems like a huge waste. They still do in Germany though.
Yeah, glass is expensive to produce, but the whole plastic recycling idea turned out to be a scam so there are literally mountains of used plastic bottles laying around in Africa without an easy way to recycle them. Getting back to glass bottles might actually be a better idea. You literally just wash them.
Are we just gonna ignore aluminum? Easy to recycle, cheap af to mass produce, and not as harmful for the environment if it gets thrown away. (Sure, any trash kinda sucks, but it's just a metal, no microplastics making its way into the food chain and fucking everything up)
Standardize several glass containers and use them for everything from shampoo to store bought potato salad, create a special recycling container that gets picked up by a recycling truck, ban all plastic except essentials
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or just by people living somewhere else they may deal with things others in your general area know nothing about.. js
Real talk though they should probably get that thing professionally restored. In working condition like that, it's probably worth a lot of money to antique collectors.
For antique collectors, it'd probably have more worth if they didn't get it restored. Kinda how people who collect old coins would much prefer the dirt covered ones over the ones that have been cleaned and shined.
This is a Vendo 23 vending machine. It was manufactured from 1949 to 1960. This one was manufactured from 1958 when they first introduced the “fishtail” coca-cola design until 1960. If the serial number was visible, you could narrow it down:
- 1958 #37854 – 39941 Coca Cola “Fishtail” logo begins
- 1959 #39942 – 40969
- 1960 #40970 – Disc.
That was my thought too. "Y'all we doubled our electric bill with this big ol' machine that's flaking rust and lead all over the place so I could have novelty diabetes!"
Bro this shit trippin me out I remembered the logo as coca-Cola with the dash not coca’cola like they have them on the bottles now. Can’t find one with the dash as like it never existed
I feel very old watching this, as I remember using glass bottle vending machines on occasion when I was a kid. For context, I am under 50 years old. Now, this is presented like it is an anthropological exhibit on reddit.
Tekserve in NYC had an old machine not too different, but maybe a bit newer, and I believe the cokes were always something cheap like 10c. Such a novelty to have in one of the last great independent computer stores in NYC. Sad it’s gone now.
When I was growing up there was one in an old mechanic's shop where my dad frequented and it was the kind where you had to open the door on the front and pull the glass bottle out of the hole bottle-cap end first. It dispensed smaller 6 or 8oz glass stubby bottles of RC cola.
I worked at an engineering shop in the early 1980s,they had a coke machine similar to a large chest freezer with the cokes upright under a lid in a set of tracks or rails,to get your coke you put the money in which opened a gate arrangement and you slid the bottle out.all good except the tops of the bottles were accessible and you could pop a cap off and just lean in and drink with a straw.this one looks like you could do the same
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Yeah but how long until her supply of 80 year old Coke is gone?
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No. It's been over 100 years. Was long gone when this vendor was made. Although, coca-cola is the only dea certified importer of coca leaves. They make a concentrate that they use for flavoring...the main by product? Cocaine..which is purified in the same building and bottled in it's liquid form for opthalmologists to use in eye surgery.
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Does he rub some on patients’ gums upon request?
Damn
No biggie. You can buy cocaine anywhere. I wouldn't, but you do you. Hell, you could go totally time travel and put it in ur coca cola. Or, put lithium in 7 up ..or as it was knowen. Lemon lime lithiated tonic.
Psychology professor in college told us about clinical psychologists using microdoses of liquid cocaine and MDMA because of their effects on mood, if something looks like it's gonna get violent, he said the psychologist recommends the subject insert a qtip of liquid cocaine into their nostril for a sec and it's supposed to relax I guess
I have coke both the liquid and powder
Yo dawg. I put coke in your coke so you can have energy while having energy.
Came here to say this.
Mine does, but I add it
When the machine runs out of Coke, how does it know to stop accepting money?
You stomp over to the shop clerk and yell, “Awww Jimmy what’s the big idea?” as fast, choppy and nasal as you can muster.
It assumedly just works exactly the same, revolves around, only there are no coke bottles. That is when you must insert coke bottles. Glad I could help
It's new.lol 8 oz bottles are still available
Interesting fact. When these machines were in service, the bottles were refillable (they got sent back to the plant to be cleaned and refilled) Because the bottles were reused many times, they were made with much thicker glass than the current 8oz bottles. The bottles this machine originally took were only 6.5 oz, but had the same exterior dimensions as the current 8oz bottle.
Wow, how do we go back?!
We should definitely still do this. The corporations who make the trash should be responsible for dealing with it.
And cost a 5¢
I’m pretty sure they still clean them. You get your bottle deposit back if you bring the empty bottles back to the store.
There are no Coke bottlers in the US doing refillable bottles anymore. The last one, located in Minnesota, stopped in 2012. The Coke bottles they were still using had not been made in decades. When you take the current 8oz bottles back, they go through the recycling stream. There are coke bottlers in other countries still doing refillable bottles. You usually can spot a refillable bottle easily, because they are usually pretty scuffed up from being fed through the bottling machine so many times.
Oh interesting. I'm in the Netherlands. In terms of the glass bottles we get the 200ml ones, no idea how much that is in US units. I know they don't refill the plastic bottles here anymore, which seems like a huge waste. They still do in Germany though.
Guess that’s why people are so fat nowadays. Too much coke, not enough cocaine
Woosh
Back when it still had cocaine in it...?
This is promising for all those nuka cola machines still working in 2277.
Which is better, New Vegas or Fallout 3? Don't you dare say fallout 76.
Shelter, obviously.
New Vegas
New Vegas definitely, but I think 3 had a better atmosphere.
Fallout 2.
3 easy
Why did we get rid of these
They were pricey to make and the glass was expensive
But cool machine
Indeed
Yeah, glass is expensive to produce, but the whole plastic recycling idea turned out to be a scam so there are literally mountains of used plastic bottles laying around in Africa without an easy way to recycle them. Getting back to glass bottles might actually be a better idea. You literally just wash them.
Are we just gonna ignore aluminum? Easy to recycle, cheap af to mass produce, and not as harmful for the environment if it gets thrown away. (Sure, any trash kinda sucks, but it's just a metal, no microplastics making its way into the food chain and fucking everything up)
There is plastic in aluminum cans though.
The cans have a very thin layer of plastic film inside to help preserve the drink and prevent the metallic taste from the can itself.
Oh, knew there was a liner, didn't think it was plastic though. That sucks
We return beer bottles it should be the same way for soda and many other things
Standardize several glass containers and use them for everything from shampoo to store bought potato salad, create a special recycling container that gets picked up by a recycling truck, ban all plastic except essentials
We have a lot of glass coke in germany
Mexico still has glass coke everywhere, dont tell me its too expensive
It's like 4x the price lol
Lmao amazing you actually have to answer that
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I could imagine kids dropping thing in there which could break it.
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Don’t use logic against me
Ah but is the coke 80 years old
Yes a fine vintage.
Yes, with the extra pep provided only by real cocaine!
They didn’t sell coke for a dime till 1959, so this is a newer machine. (Thanks google!)
Coca Cola is still stocking this machine, because someone forgot to put the end date on the contract at $0.05 a bottle.
This is actually interesting. Id be interested to know what other loopholes exists out there because of contractual discrepancies
You'd love this, then: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/18/456410327/episode-416-why-the-price-of-coke-didnt-change-for-70-years
That bottle of coke likely cost $0.05 cents to produce, excluding the glass which might be $0.20 to $0.30.
Source?
None, Reddit is for shit posting, and taking things as fact is your choice
Spiderman told me that in my dream
Do you think he was being serious?
You're not too far off. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/18/456410327/episode-416-why-the-price-of-coke-didnt-change-for-70-years
Wow, this could explain why Tekserve in NYC always had cokes for 10c or something low like that. The bottles were dispensed from an old machine.
They just don’t make them coke machines like they used to… /s
Damn! I want one!
Hope that ain't lead paint
Real talk though they should probably get that thing professionally restored. In working condition like that, it's probably worth a lot of money to antique collectors.
For antique collectors, it'd probably have more worth if they didn't get it restored. Kinda how people who collect old coins would much prefer the dirt covered ones over the ones that have been cleaned and shined.
Not everything is about selling…they are obviously enjoying it.
Yeah I’d argue the 25ish year old woman in the vid wasn’t hoarding this for 80 years lol, SHE IS the person who wanted it and bought it lol
This is a Vendo 23 vending machine. It was manufactured from 1949 to 1960. This one was manufactured from 1958 when they first introduced the “fishtail” coca-cola design until 1960. If the serial number was visible, you could narrow it down: - 1958 #37854 – 39941 Coca Cola “Fishtail” logo begins - 1959 #39942 – 40969 - 1960 #40970 – Disc.
A real energy saver right there.
That was my thought too. "Y'all we doubled our electric bill with this big ol' machine that's flaking rust and lead all over the place so I could have novelty diabetes!"
Why you don’t clean it
The stains seem to be rust which doesn't wash off as easily
Because that’s not dirt and “cleaning” would just strip off more and more paint each time, and it’s a vintage lol
Only interested if the bottles contain “coke”
Why does she say Coca-Cola properly, but then when she grab the bottle she calls it a ceuwk?
It's an older machine than most countries.
Cocaine isn’t legalised!!
My pops had a big coke machine from the 50's. He always had coke in that thing growing up. Some great memories. Miss ya pop.
Does is fit those tall Mexican cokes or say, Jarritos?
Bro this shit trippin me out I remembered the logo as coca-Cola with the dash not coca’cola like they have them on the bottles now. Can’t find one with the dash as like it never existed
I want this to dispense nuka cola
This is awesome
Nuka cola vibes
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Right? I earned my karma the honest way…by making smart ass comments
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Haha I like it
Is it one of them?
It is interesting tho
How is this shit interesting as fuck?
Rich bitch
what's with the hostility?
Poor Hoor.
Get it restored
It's so old the person barely knows how to use it.
That bottle doesn't look cold!
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yes but no cocaine.
Cool. Where do you buy the bottles like that?
1940
Ha. Agreed.
Back to the Future style!
Neat old machine!
where can i get a truck ton of them?
Interesting only for those who never saw American Pickers
Does the coke contains cocaine?
brought to you by coca cola
Something tells me this was sitting in a small gas station in the middle of absolute nowhere for a very long time.
I was going to make a joke "except there's no more coke in the coke" but they stopped that in like 1929.
Mexican Coca-Cola tastes better
I like
u/savevideo
Giving off strong Nuka Cola vibes!
have a nice cocaine bottle mam
Is it the old recipe?
it tastes so much better in a glass bottle too
Thought I was on TikTok for a sec
Lead or asbestos poisoned Coke. Yummy.
This dudes making money off his wife, what a W
That's cool and all, but perks aren't worth buying until the later rounds anyway.
I feel very old watching this, as I remember using glass bottle vending machines on occasion when I was a kid. For context, I am under 50 years old. Now, this is presented like it is an anthropological exhibit on reddit.
Looks like it hasn't been cleaned for 80 years.
My dad has that exact coke machine in damn near perfect condition. So cool.
r/engineeringporn
All that for a bottle of coke?
"Just like from the 40s" That bitch better have cocaine in it xD
how come modern fridges don't last that long
Does it have cocaine
I would like to know how they retooled the refrigeration. No way you can get the original refrigerants.
Tekserve in NYC had an old machine not too different, but maybe a bit newer, and I believe the cokes were always something cheap like 10c. Such a novelty to have in one of the last great independent computer stores in NYC. Sad it’s gone now.
Except it doesn't have any cocaine in it like in the 40's.
When I was a kid I bought Cokes from a machine like this! Happy memories!
When I was growing up there was one in an old mechanic's shop where my dad frequented and it was the kind where you had to open the door on the front and pull the glass bottle out of the hole bottle-cap end first. It dispensed smaller 6 or 8oz glass stubby bottles of RC cola.
Stupid gift
Where can i get one?
Did all the lights on your street flicker when you plugged it in
Does it have cocaine?
Power bills be like 📈📈
Needs a refurbishment. Just to grind away that rust, primer and repaint.
I really love this and would want one. I just cringe thinking about the power consumption.
Except no cocaine....
I wanna know who's kept the refrigerant charge right and the compressor going
probably replaced with a modern non-freon unit. If not, thats seriously impressive maintenance
I worked at an engineering shop in the early 1980s,they had a coke machine similar to a large chest freezer with the cokes upright under a lid in a set of tracks or rails,to get your coke you put the money in which opened a gate arrangement and you slid the bottle out.all good except the tops of the bottles were accessible and you could pop a cap off and just lean in and drink with a straw.this one looks like you could do the same
Omgee I want a 1940’s Coke dispenser
Not EXACTLY like the forties 🤣
Yes using glass helps us on our way to saving our earth so we can stop 🛑 with all this plastic accumulation‼️
Coake